Jessica Vianey Corona

Born and raised on the Ciudad Juárez/El Paso border, she earned her bachelor’s degree in 2023 from Our Lady of the Lake University as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, graduating with a double major in Psychology and Spanish. She recently completed her master’s degree in Spanish with a focus on Digital Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio. As a Graduate Fellow at the Transborder Digital Humanities (TBDH) Consortium Center (2024-present), her research focuses on the creation and curation of a digital database using historical Spanish-language newspaper archives. This database documents cases of gender-based violence against women in border cities like El Paso and San Antonio during the 19th century, offering a historical lens to recover stories that have often been overlooked or silenced in official archives. Through digital methods, she analyzes cultural representations and narratives of gender-based violence to better understand how these cases were historically reported and framed in the press.

She is also part of two Transborder Digital Humanities projects: GeoTestimonios Transfronterizos, in collaboration with Chicana border writer Gris Muñoz from El Paso, Texas, and Fuerza Feminista: Intimate Recovery Memory Archives, in partnership with NMSU Regents Professor Cynthia Bejarano. Both projects are led by Dr. Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, with whom Jessica works closely as a graduate research assistant. As a woman and a transfronteriza, she is deeply committed to this work, aiming to challenge and transform the ways borderland stories and experiences are documented and understood, making a meaningful contribution to social justice initiatives.