Position: Associate Professor
Department: College of Arts, Education, and Humanities
Phone: 610-282-1100, x1372
Office: 269 Dooling Hall
María Cristina Campos Fuentes was raised and educated in Mexico City, where she completed her undergraduate studies in communication and journalism at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City; in that city, she worked as a journalist for the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. After that, Dr. Campos Fuentes earned a master’s degree from the Institut Français de Presse at the University of Panthéon-Assas in Paris, France. In the United States, she completed an MA in Spanish language, cultures, and literatures from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
In 2007, Dr. Campos Fuentes received her doctorate from the University of Tennessee, graduating summa cum laude. Her dissertation offered a comparative perspective focusing on the love poetry of Mexican writers Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos. Dr. Campos Fuentes has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book, Con el otro la poesía comienza: Amor y sexualidad en poemas breves de Rosario Castellanos (Mexico: Conaculta, 2010).
From 2011 to 2024, Dr. Campos Fuentes served as the co-owner and co-editor of the academic journal L’Érudit franco-espagnol, a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to publishing scholarly essays in English, French, and Spanish that engage issues and ideas in connection with the literature and culture of Spain, Latin America, the Hispanic population in the United States, France, and the Francophone countries.
Dr. Campos Fuentes joined the faculty of DeSales University in 2008. She holds the position of a tenured associate professor of Spanish, and since 2024, she has served as the chair of the Humanities Department.