Joseline Gonzalez-Ajanel

Joseline González-Ajanel (she/her/ella) is a first-generation Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Her research projects examine 21st century U.S. Central American cultural productions (zines, memoirs, comic books, and films) and argues that U.S. Central American productions respond to institutional and social disposability through queer methodologies of speculative futurities, kinship, and rasquachismo. She is further interested in literary testimonios, digital storytelling, ethnic enclaves, and Central American monsters. Joseline received her B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Chicana/o/e Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). She was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at CSUDH from 2019-2021 and a Crossing Latinidades Fellow from 2024-2025. She is currently a Graduate Assistant Researcher for Texas A&M's Race & Ethnicity Studies Institute as part of their LatinTX initiative. Joseline is a proud Los Angeles native and daughter of Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrant parents.