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Olga Salazar Pozos is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Modern Languages at DePaul University.

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She has collaborated as a researcher for the Observatory on Disappearances and Impunity in Mexico, the Human Rights Lab, and the Center of Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. Her scholarly publications can be found in Hispania, A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios hispánicos, Latin American Research Review, and Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.

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Her dissertation project, «Between the Erasures of Violence and the Political Force of Collective Mourning: Artistic Interpretations of Mexico’s War on Drugs», deals with the way contemporary Mexican literature and documentary film portray the human rights crisis in Mexico. She argues that in these cultural and artistic practices, artists make use of the notion of collective mourning as a political tool that confronts the prevailing climate of violence and impunity in the context of the War on Drugs.

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