Label Me Latina/o Spring 2022 Volume 12
Filed under: Spring
Essay
Fights of Fancy: Visual and Literary Modes of Resistance in Nicholasa Mohr’s Nilda (1973)
By Marisa Ambio
Marissa L. Ambio received her PhD from Columbia University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Hamilton College. She specializes in 19th-21st C. Latinx literature. Her work has been published in Hispania, Latin American Research Review and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. She is currently preparing a book manuscript, “The Coming of Age of Latin@/x Literature.”
Selling Spectacle and Airing Identity: Latinidad in American Dirt and Juliet Takes A Breath
By Amanda Matousek
Amanda L. Matousek is Associate Professor of Spanish at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She has published articles on real and fictional female icons, divas, and rebels in Hispanic Studies Review, Hispanic Journal, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Letras Hispanas. A graduate of The Ohio State University, Dr. Matousek’s research focuses on Mexican Literatures and Cultures, Latinx and Chicanx Studies, Popular Music and Popular Culture Studies, Mexico-U.S. Border Studies, Women and Violence in Latin American and Iberian Literatures and Cultures, and Women’s Studies.
Mujer, naturaleza y fertilidad en Bloodroot de Alma Villanueva
By Ana Silvia Cervantes Figueroa
Ana Silvia Cervantes Figueroa has a BA in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Sonora, Mexico, and is a graduate student at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the construction and representation of the image of women in literature and media, and how this is reflected in the Hispanic worldview.
Poetry
By Leslie C. Sotomayor
Leslie C. Sotomayor II is an artist, curator, and educator with a dual PhD in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Penn State. Her teaching focuses on Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of conocimiento and autohistoria-teoría, a feminist writing practice of theorizing one’s experiences as transformative acts to guide her teaching methodology and create curriculum for empowerment and transformation to curate educational spaces that decolonize white patriarchal hegemonic academic canons. She has curated numerous art exhibitions including: Les Femmes Folles Presents: Feminists Connect ( 2021 & 2022); Let’s Pretend with Edinboro University (2021); Hilos Rojos, a solo art exhibition in Havana, Cuba (2017); and Borrandofronteras/Erasingborders a Cuban and Cuban-American Collaborative Art Exhibition at Penn State (2015). Sotomayor’s book Teaching In/Between: Curating Educational spaces Through Autohistoria-teoría and conocimiento (Vernon Press, 2021) discusses a feminist, social justice approach implementing Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories for teaching and curriculum design through a Latinx feminist lens. Sotomayor has numerous publications about her research work in Cuba, feminist curatorial projects, curriculum approaches, and visual arts practice. She may be contacted at: lcz5008@gmail.com.
Interview
Daniel José Older on the Shadowshaper Cypher Series: Part II
Interviewed by Taryne Jade Taylor
Taryne Jade Taylor is an assistant professor of Humanities and Composition at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she also serves as the coordinator for the Humanities and the Latin American Studies minor. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly feminist SFF and Latinx futurisms. Dr. Taylor is co-editor of the forthcoming The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms with Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. She is an associate editor for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, editor of the Routledge book series Studies in Global Genre Fiction, and a juror for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year.
