Oscar Zapata García is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also served as Vice President of the Latin American Graduate Organization of Students. Before pursuing graduate studies in the United States, he worked for several years as a journalist and editor in Mexico. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar. He has also held editorial positions at the National Institute of Historical Studies of the Mexican Revolution, the Journal of Contemporary Mexican Literature, and the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature.
His current research takes a multidisciplinary approach—drawing on Latin American, Ethnic, and Film and Media Studies—to examine Chinese diasporas in Mexico and the representation of Chinese communities in Mexican cultural production. Integrating archival research, film and literary analysis, ethnographic interviews, and documentary filmmaking, his work reconstructs erased histories and builds community-driven audiovisual counter-archives.