Michael Reyes Salas

Michael Reyes Salas studies social constructions of criminality in carceral narratives and French penal colony heritage. His dissertation examines the liberation struggles of imprisoned writers through a literary analysis of their memoirs and auto-fictional texts. He earned a BA in English and Francophone studies at UCLA in 2014 and a MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016, where he continues to pursue a PhD. His graduate research has been funded by a Ford Predoctoral Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.