Miguel Ángel Tamargo del Pozo

He graduated in English Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid and currently holds an Master’s degree from the same institution in Literary and Cultural Studies of English-Speaking Countries. Miguel Ángel has also worked as a Teacher Assistant in Tufts University (2018-2019). His research areas are centered around the relationship between geographical space and contemporary queer literature, analyzing the “map” as both a metaphor and tool to understand how queer people move around maps of their own in contrast or in conflict with those given by society. 

CONFERENCES (among others):

• “Queer Identity and the Performance of Family: Ambivalent Diasporic Motherhood in Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much and Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart,” on the panel “Intersectional Maternities: Immigrant Motherhood in American Literature”, 35th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies, April 4-6, 2024.

•  “Motherhood as Compass: Diasporic Mothers and the Performance of a Queer Identity in Elaine Castillo’s America Is Not the Heart and Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much.” 17th SAAS Conference, University of Alicante, April 8-10, 2025.