Mariana Guzman is a 1st year PhD candidate in Visual Studies. Her research will focus on the relationships between words and images in European illuminated manuscripts from the late Middle Ages, and will analyze their influence on manuscripts produced in the Americas in the 16th century. 

 
She is originally from Mexico City, where she earned her BA from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and she worked in Museo Soumaya as a museum mediator, and in the auction house Morton Subastas, as a specialist in the antiques department. She earned her MA in History and Philosophy of Art from the University of Kent in Canterbury and Paris. Her Master's thesis "Babel in Silence and Translation: Words in Contemporary Art for the Globalized Art World" is a comparative study of the presence and translation of words and images in contemporary artworks exhibited in Magiciens de la Terre (Paris, 1989) and the Tercera Bienal de la Habana (Havana, 1989). She is currently a Teaching Assistant in the School of Visual Studies.