Luz Mireya Romero Montaño ABD is enrolled in her 3rd year of the Ph. D. program at the Department of Romance Languages. She previously studied modern languages at the Distrital University in Bogotá, Colombia and earned a Master's Degree in Latin American Literature from the Insituto Caro y Cuervo, Seminario Andrés Bello. In 2006, she joined to the Department of Latin American Studies at the University of Ulsan, South Korea, as an instructor and visiting lecturer. She collaborated as instructor and consultant for the Korean Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation and the Korean Literature Translation Institute. In 2009, the Daesan Foundation, a Korean literature promoter, gave her a co-translation grant. Her fields of interest are: Teaching of Spanish as a second language, contemporary Latin American novels, neo-policial genre, power, narration and representation of violence. Currently, she is working on her dissertation entitled Enclaves of Drug trafficking in Colombian and Mexican literature.