Erika Barrios (she/her/hers) '20

Erika Barrios is an alumna of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, where she majored in English Literature. As an undergraduate, she conducted research on Latinx literature and the digital humanities, gaining experience with digital archives and digital poetics. She completed her honors thesis on the use of language technology in the poetry of Urayoán Noel, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosa Alcalá. Erika is the recipient of the Helen G. Scott Prize for Literature and New Media, the Helen G. Scott Prize for a Critical Essay on the Short Story, the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, and the Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Honors Thesis in English. She was also recognized for her work in New Student and Family Programs and Social Justice Education at the 2020 Wildcat Excellence Awards. After graduation, Erika will work as an Acquisitions Assistant at MIT Press through the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship. She hopes to enroll in a PhD program to continue researching 20th- and 21st-century poetry and poetics, hemispheric American literature, and literary responses to neoliberalism.