Joshua Sanchez
 | PhD StudentAmerican Literary and Cultural StudiesResearch Area(s)Marxism-Leninism, Dialectical and Historical Materialist Philosophy, Political Economy, Critical Geography, Visual Rhetoric, Technical Communication, Analytical, Descriptive, and Historical Bibliography, Material Print Culture, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Contact InformationEmail: jsanchez0114@unm.edu |
BiographyJoshua A. Sanchez is a thirteenth-generation New Mexican, a first-generation college graduate, and a PhD candidate in American Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico. As a dedicated educator, he serves as a Core Instructor for the Composition Department, where he integrates his scholarly research with his pedagogical practices. His academic work is grounded in a commitment to bridging the gap between rigorous textual analysis and the broader material conditions of global political economies. His current doctoral research utilizes a proprietary methodology known as "Dialectical Discourse Mapping (DDM)". This framework provides an integrated operational sequence that moves systematically from micro-level linguistic evidence to macro-level historical totality. By applying a tripartite series of analytical passes—drawing from structuralist linguistic foundations, psychoanalytic subject theory, and deconstructive trace analysis—his work identifies the infrastructural forces that shape communicative formations and collective struggles. Through this multiscalar approach, he examines the ways in which language functions within modern power structures and material reality. His scholarship seeks to uncover how texts encode and transform the contradictions of global political paradigms. By grounding his analysis in materialist theory, he aims to map the complex relationship between individual discourse and the social, economic, and institutional environments that necessitate its production. | |
