Zyanya Doniz
Zyanya Dóniz Ibáñez (she/her/ella) is a fourth-year PhD candidate (ABD) in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
She is originally from Durango, México and she joined Georgetown University in 2021.
Her work, explored in published articles and presentations, focuses on 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature from the perspective of archive theory, performance studies, and feminisms. She is part of the editorial team of Plaza Pública, a graduate-student-led literary magazine, and former co-chair of the 2024 Georgetown’s Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium.
Her dissertation, “(Dis)locations of the Latin American Contemporary Archive", examines how archives are used as evidence of violence in contemporary Mexican and Central American literature and films to disrupt traditional boundaries between reality and fiction.