Olivia Jean Hernández

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Olivia Jean Hernández is a PhD candidate in English Literature and Language at the University of Washington.

Hernández was born and raised in the Yakima Valley, though she has been living in Seattle since 2008. She is currently writing a dissertation on the uses of Chicanx narrative in the college writing classroom. As a predoctoral instructor in both Composition and Chicanx studies at UW, Hernández focuses on supporting students as they engage in critical assessment of popular culture and representation of marginalized identities.

Critiques

Critiques
What We Talk About When We Talk About Blood Quantum: Native American Identity in Jihae Park's Peerless</em>
Lydia Herbling, Will Darling, Jenny Van Houdt, Olivia Jean Hernández, Emily George
What We Talk About When We Talk About Blood Quantum: Native American Identity in Jihae Park's Peerless
Lydia Herbling, Will Darling, Jenny Van Houdt, Olivia Jean Hernández, Emily George

Lydia Heberling and the review team highlight Jihae Park's success at "capturing the complexity of claiming and expressing Indigeneity" in Peerless along with potential decolonial narratives, performing on unceded Duwamish territory.

Lydia Herbling, Will Darling, Jenny Van Houdt, Olivia Jean Hernández, Emily George
Claims to Queer Monstrosity in Beware the Terror of Gaylord Manor</em>
Olivia Jean Hernández, Emily George
Claims to Queer Monstrosity in Beware the Terror of Gaylord Manor
Olivia Jean Hernández, Emily George

Olivia Jean Hernández and Emily George find BenDeLaCreme’s campy production and all-drag cast of Beware the Terror of Gaylord Manor to “effectively destabilize the inherently gendered expectations of horror narratives.”

Olivia Jean Hernández, Emily George
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