Latinx Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis

Professor Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Texas at Austin

Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba is a professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of the books La modernidad abyecta. Formación de discurso homosexual en Latinoamérica (Universidad Veracruzana, 2001), and Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity (Palgrave, 2007), Nación criminal: Narrativas del crimen organizado y el estado mexicano (Ariel, 2015), and Translating the Queer. Body Politics and Transnational Conversations (Zed Books, 2016).

Professor Larry LaFountain-Stokes
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Culture and former director the Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Women’s and Gender Studies. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he received his AB from Harvard (1991) and his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Columbia (1999). He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and of Escenas transcaribeñas: Ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura (Isla Negra Editores, 2018) and coeditor with Deborah R. Vargas and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of Keywords for Latina/o Studies (New York University Press, 2017). His book Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2021 as part of the Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance series. He has coedited queer issues of CENTRO Journal, Sargasso, and Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana and has published two books of fiction, Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails and Abolición del pato. Larry performs in drag as Lola von Miramar since 2010, and has appeared in several episodes of the YouTube series Cooking with Drag Queens.

Associate Professor Marisol LeBrón
Feminist Studies Department
University of California, Santa Cruz

Marisol LeBrón is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching focus on race, social inequality, policing, violence, and protest. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019) and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021). Along with Yarimar Bonilla, she is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019). She is one of the co-creators and project leaders for the Puerto Rico Syllabus (#PRsyllabus), a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rican debt crisis.
 

Assistant Professor Sergio Gutiérrez-Negrón
Department of Hispanic Studies
Oberlin College

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón is a scholar, a writer, and an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. His current scholarly projects revolve around nineteenth century economic culture and the history of conservatism in post-independent Mexico’s first decades. His most recent article, on the concept of “instituent power” in the country’s first fiscal plan is forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

Professor Juliet Hooker
Department of Political Science
Brown University

Juliet Hooker is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, multiculturalism, Latin American political thought, Black political thought, and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. She is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford, 2017). Her current research project examines the politics of loss, aspects of which have appeared in “Black Protest/White Grievance: On the Problem of White Political Imaginations Not Shaped by Loss,” South Atlantic Quarterly, and “Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair,” in the journal Political Theory. Hooker has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the DuBois Institute for African American Research at Harvard, and the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Associate Professor Joseph Pierce
Department of Spanish Language and Literatures
Stony Brook University

Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019) and co-editor of Políticas del amor: Derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur (Cuarto Propio, 2018) as well as the special issue of GLQ, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable” (2021). His writing has appeared recently in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Latin American Research Review, and Critical Ethnic Studies, and has been featured in Indian Country Today, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, and ARTnews. Along with SJ Norman (Koori, Wiradjuri descent) he is co-curator of Knowledge of Wounds. He is a citizen of Cherokee Nation.

Professor Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Chair, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Loyola Marymount University

Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson is Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and coauthor of Funny Looking: Humor, Queer Latina/o Camp, and Ugly Betty (Lexington Books, 2015). She is the editor of Stunned Into Being: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes (Wings Press, 2012) and coeditor of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her latest book project, Style, Aesthetics, and the Body: Chicana/o/x Cultural Production and the Making of Latinidad examines the way style and aesthetics work on the body to create individual and collective forms of subjectivity. In it, she pays particular to the way Chicana/o/x cultural production works to articulate expansive and liberatory forms of Latinidad. Her latest essay “I Love You Like Chicanos Love Morrissey”: Affect, World-making, and Latinidad,” can be found in the ASAP journal. She serves as Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for The Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University.