Orit Gugenheim

Orit Gugenheim is a first-year Ph.D. student at Yale, in the Spanish and Portuguese department. She was born and raised in Mexico City, and went on to obtain her B.A. from Columbia in Comparative Literature with a concentration in Hispanic Studies. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century Hispanic literature, and the study of (Jewish) exile as an opportunity for transnational encounters and for (re)creating the homeland through literature.