Dr. Koby Hansen

Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish

Contact Information

• Email: tba
• Office: tba

Research Interests

Contemporary Mexican Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Queer Theory/Studies; Queer Geographies; Film and Visual Culture; Embodiment and Corporeality; Contemporary Latin American Literature

Dr. Hansen specializes in contemporary Latin American cultural production with an emphasis on 21st century Mexico. His research weaves together studies of space and place, gender and sexuality, and narrative analysis. He proudly belongs to a research network and has published and presented on a host of topics, ranging from the representation of bathrooms and bathhouses in film to graphic novels to Spanish-language pedagogy.

Academic website: https://sites.google.com/view/kobyhansen/home

Education

• 2026 - Ph.D., Spanish, University of California Riverside
  • Dissertation: Epistemologies of the Baño: Bath Space, Affective Occupation, and Public Sex(ualities) in Contemporary Queer Mexican Narrative
  • Designated Emphasis: Corporeality & Embodiment
• 2022 - M.A., Spanish, University of California, Riverside
• 2020 - B.A., Spanish with minor in LGBTQ+ Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Publications (Selected)

Single-authored articles

• “Difficult Traces to Erase: Audiovisual Projects Remembering the Stroessner Dictatorship.” Shooting Back: Documentary Film in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Christopher Ballengee, University Press of Mississippi, 2026. Pg. 103-116.
• “Graphic Ghosts: Reimagining Urban Violence in Augusto Mora’s Los fantasmas de mi ciudad.” Supernatural Cities: Placing Urban Identities, Memory, and Cultural Crises, special issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, edited by Rachael Ironside & Alicia Edwards-Boon, 2024. Pp. 121-136.