Doctor Ileana María Diéguez Caballero is a Professor in the Humanities Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus. Member of the National System of Researchers, Level II. Ph.D. in Literature (2006) with a postdoctoral stay in Art History, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), supported by CONACYT (2008-2009).

She works on issues of art, memory, violence, mourning, and expanded and social theatricalities and performativities. She is independent curator of visual exhibitions such as Navajas, by Rosa María Robles (Centro de las Artes de Monterrey, and Instituto Potosino de Cultura, 2012); Sudarios, by Erika Diettes (ExTeresa Arte Actual, 2012); La domus del ausente, by Juan Manuel Echavarría and Mayra Martell (Galería Metropolitana, 2013); Ensayo de la memoria, by Mayra Martell (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2012); Las formas de la ausencia (Casa de la Cultura de la UAEMéx, in Tlalpan, August 2015). Curator of the projects Des/montar la re/presentación (carried out from the Cuajimalpa Campus of the UAM) and Desmontajes: procesos de investigación y creación escénica (carried out at the CITRU-INBA between 2003 and 2009). She has given seminars and lectures in the Arts and Literature postgraduate programs at the following academic institutions: Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade de Buenos Aires, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade de Concepción in Chile, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, UNAM and Universidad Iberoamericana.

Among her lines of research are; Liminal theatricalities. Scenarios and expanded fields; Performativities. Cultural and citizen practices; Latin American contemporary art and its theoretical/critical production; Dismantling of artistic processes. Dis/assembling representation; Practices of mourning and memory. Re/presentations, absences, and regimes of visibility; Necroteatro. Scenarios of the body and iconographies of violence; among others.

She coordinates the Critical Cartographies Seminar, which has been held since September 2014 in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences and Humanities and is dedicated to research, map and reflect on theories about art in critical situations produced by thinkers from Latin America, seeking to think about the transformations that the processes of social crisis have posed to contemporary critical thinking.