Originally from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Tania Libertad Balderas is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of New Mexico, an MA in English Literature from l'Université de Lausanne, and a B.A. in Theater Arts from New Mexico State University. Her fields of study are 20th Century Comparative Literature, centering on Chicanx, Latin American, Francophone Caribbean, and Native American Literature. She specializes in Marxism, feminism, theater studies, anti-imperialism, and decolonial theories.