Education
Ph.D., UC Irvine
Bio
Jacqueline Martínez Cerna (she/her/ella) holds a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Loyola Marymount University (LMU), an M.A. in Spanish from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), awarded in 2025. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
She has taught beginner, intermediate, and advanced Spanish, as well as Spanish for Heritage Speakers, at UCI. She has also taught intermediate Spanish at LMU and Concordia University, Irvine, and beginner Spanish at Middlebury College as part of its seven-week Summer Immersion Language Program. At UCSB, she teaches beginner and intermediate Spanish.
Her research interests include Central American literature and culture, intellectual history, gender studies and women’s writing, the Central American avant-garde, activism in Latin American literature, and Latin American film.