Biography
Dr. Ignacio Sarmiento grew up in Santiago, Chile. After obtaining his Licenciatura (BA) in History from Universidad Diego Portales in 2012, he moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he conducted graduate studies at the University of British Columbia. In 2013, he moved to New Orleans, where he obtained his MA (2015) and Ph.D. (2018) in Spanish from Tulane University. Before coming to CSUN, Dr. Sarmiento was Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American History at SUNY Fredonia, where he taught for six years.
Dr. Sarmiento's research focuses on contemporary Central American Literature and Culture, and the Central American diaspora. He is the author of the forthcoming book Specters of War. The Battle of Mourning in Postconflict Central America (University of Arizona Press, 2025), which analyzes conflicting mourning manifestation in postwar El Salvador and Guatemala. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/specters-of-war
He also co-edited Central American Migration in the Twenty-First Century (University of Arizona Press, 2023) and (Re)Imaginar Centroamérica en el siglo XXI (Uruk editores, 2017). In 2022, he co-edited "(En)Visioning Central American Migrations: Views from the Diaspora," a special issue of the journal Label Me Latino/a.
Dr. Sarmiento has published articles in journals such as Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Transmodernity, Romance Notes, and Istmo.
He loves teaching, reading, traveling, and playing water polo.
Dr. Sarmiento's scholarly work can be found in his Academia.edu profile: https://csun.academia.edu/IgnacioSarmiento