Mayte López

 

 

Mayte López holds a Ph.D. in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures from The City University of New York (CUNY), an M.A. in Literature from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University (NYU). Prior to joining Yale, she taught at Columbia University and Lehman College. 

 

Her teaching focuses on second language acquisition with an emphasis on learning through culture and creative writing. Drawing from her own practice as a novelist, she encourages students to approach language as a living medium and to explore how fiction, poetry, and nonfiction can serve as tools for linguistic development and as spaces for formal experimentation.

 

At Yale, she is leading the expansion of the creative writing curriculum in Spanish through new workshop-based courses that integrate literary analysis with creative production. She also serves on the faculty board of the Creative Forum, contributing to various initiatives, events, and workshops. 

 

Her work engages with contemporary literature and film, transatlantic perspectives, and memory studies. She is particularly interested in Latin American and Spanish women writers, focusing on narrative voice and the intersections between fiction, gender, and feminism.

 

She is the author of the novels De la Catrina y la flaca (Sudaquia, 2016) and Sensación térmica (Libros del Asteroide, 2021).