About Luz Aurora

Luz Aurora Pimentel Anduiza is professor emerita at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM and a national researcher emerita (SNI). She is one of the leading voices in narrative theory and comparative literature. Over the course of more than six decades in academia, her work has paved the way for understanding the ways in which narrative shapes our experience of time and the world.

He studied English Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM. He subsequently earned a postgraduate diploma in English Literature from the University of Nottingham, a master’s degree in Anglo-Irish Literature from the University of Leeds, and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, where he received four awards in comparative literature. From the outset, his education fostered an international, comparative perspective that focused on the relationships between languages, literary traditions, and modes of thought.

She is the author of seminal works in literary studies, including Metaphoric Narration, The Narrative in Perspective, Space in Fiction and Essays on Narrative Theory and Comparative Literature, a work that is part of the ambitious project of the series Constelaciónes, of which the aforementioned book of essays, Colorful Pictures of Time (Constellations II) and The Affected Reader: On Subjectivity in Reading and Writing (Constelaciones III).  His critical work engages with authors such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, and Jorge Luis Borges to explore how literature constructs worlds, suspends disbelief, and opens up complex forms of consciousness.

Her teaching career at UNAM began in 1965 at the National Preparatory School. In 1969, she joined the Department of Modern Literature and the Graduate Program in Literature within the School of Philosophy and Letters, where she has trained generations of readers, teachers, and researchers. She was also responsible for establishing UNAM’s Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and founded Poligrafías: Journal of Comparative Literature.

Her career has been recognized with the National University Award for Teaching in the Humanities, the National School of Advanced Studies Award, and the titles of professor emerita and national researcher emerita.