Martínez, a Colombia native who came of age during Pablo Escobar’s criminal reign, is a cultural critic who focuses on representations of the U.S. war on drugs and on representations of violence, particularly in Colombia and Mexico. Martínez has critiqued the first season of “Narcos” as well as HBO’s new biopic about trafficker Griselda Blanco. Martínez teaches courses on Latin American literature, film and history; gender and sexuality; Latin American feminisms; narratives of violence; and women writers in Latin America.
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