María José Vázquez de la Mora - Faculty

An expert in communication and literary studies, María José has been the director of the Communication and Digital Media Program at Tecnológico de Monterrey since 2014. Previously, she was the editorial coordinator of the program to promote reading for young people in the state of Querétaro "Si lees se nota", as editor of hundreds of hypertext and multimedia articles online between 2010 and 2012.

She is a member of the jury for the Ezequiel Martínez Ángeles medal of honor, a recognition of journalistic merit granted by the Citizen Participation Commission of the Querétaro State Legislature. In addition, she is a founding member of LEO A.C., Association for the Promotion of Reading for boys and girls of Querétaro, and of the reading program “Pasión por la Lectura” of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

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• Career introduction
• Screenwriting
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• PhD Candidate in Modern Literature, Universidad Iberoamericana
• Master in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona
• Bachelor of Communication Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Speaker at the 4th Symposium On Heroics and Monstrosities in the Contemporary LIJ - Universidad Iberoamericana with the project: “The will to be: the Construction of Identity in the Heroes of the Trilogy ‘Our ancestors’ by Italo Calvino” (2021).
• Speaker at the opening conference at the IDEA 2021 Seminar at the Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile) with the presentation: “Telling stories to learn better: Digital Storytelling as a pedagogical technique” (2021).
• Speaker at the Transmedia Literacy International Conference - Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the paper “Digital storytelling: individual and collective procedures and discoveries” (2018).