Dr. Martínez-Zalce received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Hispanic literature from the UNAM FES Acatlán and her master’s and doctorate in modern letters from the Iberoamerican University. She is a PRIDE scholar (D-level) and a level II member of the SNI and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the area of Canadian cultural studies and in the Migration and Borders and Identities and Cultural Processes areas of investigation. She has been a visiting researcher at El Colegio de México, at Canada’s McGill University, and at the Cuajimalpa campus of Mexico City’s Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM).

She is a professor at the School of Philosophy and Letters’ College of Hispanic Letters, where she teaches the Seminars on Literary Research I and II (Theory of Adaptation; Cinema and Literature), as well as at the School of Political and Social Sciences Graduate Department, where she teaches the Seminar on Cinema, Migration, and Borders in North America.