James Nate Nichols is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. There, his research foci involve three distinct but related fields: 1) exile and displacement in literature and film with a focus on contemporary Latin America and the shift from exile to migrant literature in the Americas; 2) trans-Atlantic studies and comparative post-dictatorial aesthetics and politics; and 3), film philosophy/theory with a focus on Raúl Ruiz in particular. At UCSB, James Nate is a Research Assistant for The Global Latinidades Project, working on grant writing initiatives, as a translator, and on the Voces Nuevas Latinx Author Series; a Student Advisory Board Member for the Graduate Center for Literary Research; an editorial member of the Graduate Student Journal Exchanges; and a member of the Memory Studies Research Group. He has published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: travesia and has presented at conferences internationally. Previously, at UC Santa Cruz, James Nate completed his MA in modern literature and graduated magna cum laude with a BA in modern literary studies and a minor in education. He has been the recipient of the Stuart Atkins Fellowship, the Max Kade Fellowship, and grants from the Graduate Center for Literary Research at UCSB. Previously, James Nate received the Santa Cruz Women’s Club Re-entry Scholarship in collaboration with the Services for Transfer and Re-entry Students center at UCSC and was the recipient of the Santa Cruz Chapter of Omega Nu’s scholarship for scholastic achievement, among others. As a former community college student, he is an alumnus of Diego Navarro’s Academy for College Excellence at Cabrillo College and graduated with high honors in Spanish and liberal arts. As an educator, James Nate has worked in a variety of settings: the Summer Migrant Program and the Writing Center at Cabrillo College; at UCSC, in the Writing Program and departments such as Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, History of Consciousness, and History of Arts and Visual Culture. At UCSB, he has worked in the Comparative Literature, German and Slavic, and French and Italian Departments. James Nate is always open to all types of questions and/or collaborative project ideas and can be reached here: jnnichols@ucsb.edu