Cuir Dissidence: Tracing Restorative Criticism and Breaking Bonds with the Mexican Canon

Francesca Dennstedt (U of Kentucky)

Respondent: Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin C)

Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

Diana Aldrete (Trinity C)

Respondent: Amanda Petersen (U of San Diego)

Consuming Citizens: Countercultural Bodies in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou (UC Riverside)

Respondent: Francesca Dennstedt (U of Kentucky)

Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

Amy Wright (Saint Louis U)

Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin C)

Job Market Workshop

Alejandra Vela Martínez (Harvard U), Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin C), and Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell U)

Was Sor Juana a Sphinx?: Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas

Víctor Sierra Matute (Baruch C)

The Rural Mexican Landscape: Industry, Identity, and Late 20th Century Cinema

Filosofía e inscripción: vida y muerte en tiempos de excepción

Omar Espinosa Cisneros (U Autónoma de Zacatecas)

How Long can the Peasantry Last?: Anti-epics of Rural Immiseration

Ericka Beckman (U of Pennsylvania)

La patria en fuga: violencia, memoria y desaparecidos en la literatura mexicana actual

Ema Llorente (U Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)

Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Jorge Quintana Navarrete (Dartmouth C)

Work in Progress

“Angélica María’s alegría: Stardom and Idealized Yourth in 1960s Mexico,” Olivia Cosentino (Tulane U)

Respondent: Paul Julian Smith (Graduate Center, CUNY)

“The Mexican Experimental in the Contemporary Novel and Film,” Dustin Dill (Northside Charter High School)

Respondent: Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington U in St. Louis)

Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production

Rebecca Janzen (U of South Carolina)

Work in Progress

“Built on Water: Vibration and Debris in (Post)-Apocalyptic Mexico City,” Regina Pieck (Brown U)

Respondent: Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin C)

“If They Kill Me: Feminist Writing against State Violence,” Ever Osorio Ruiz (Yale U)

Respondent: Dierdra Reber (U of Kentucky)

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance

Irmgard Emmelhainz (Independent Scholar)

Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change

Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell U)

Job Market Workshop

Roberto Cruz Arzabal (U Veracruzana), Tamara L. Mitchell (U of British Columbia), Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington U in St. Louis), Pavel Andrade (U of Cincinnati)

Writing Antagonism: Exploring the Fissures of Hegemony in Mexico 1994-2020

Gaëlle Le Calvez House (ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow)

Nuevos fantasmas recorren México: lo espectral en la literatura mexicana del siglo XX

Carolyn Wolfenzon (Bowdoin C)

Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails

Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez (U of California, Davis)

Breve historia de nuestro neoliberalismo

Rafael Lemus (California State U Fresno)

Reading Group

Diario del dolor, María Luisa Puga

Work in Progress

“Writing Antagonism: Exploring the Fissures of Hegemony in Mexico 1994-2020,” Gaëlle Le Calvez House (ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at Yale)

“Global Ecology and Performative Interconectedness in El mal de la taiga by Cristina Rivera Garza,” Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez (U of California, Davis)

The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico

Jorge Téllez (U of Pennsylvania)

Reading Group

Páradais, Fernanda Melchor

Work in Progress

“In the Key of Crisis: Intermediality and the Romanticization of Labor in Mexico City,” Tamara L. Mitchell (U of British Columbia)

“Neighbors, Nightclubs, and Noise in Colonia Juárez,” Elizabeth Bynum (U of Pennsylvania)

Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production

Susan Antebi (U of Toronto)

Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature

John Alba Cutler (Northwestern U)

PM / XXI / 360°: crematística y estética de la poesía mexicana contemporánea en la era de la tradición de la ruptura

Alejandro Higashi (U Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa)

Reading Group

Autobiografía del algodón, Cristina Rivera Garza

Work in Progress

“Listening to War: Necroauralities in Three Movements (Ejercicio de Percusión, Música de balas, and México exhumado),” Christina Baker (Temple U)

“Slow Music, Slow Image, Fast Violence and Deep Nostalgia in I Am No Longer Here,” Enrique Chacón (Southern Oregon U)

Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico

Horacio Legrás (U of California, Irvine)

Reading Group

El incendio de la mina El Bordo, Yuri Herrera

Work in Progress

“Border Trouble: Anzaldúa’s Margins,” Leslie Bary (U of Louisiana at Lafayette)

“Indigenous Customs and Women’s Rights in Eufrosina’s Revolution/Revolución de los alcatraces,” Rebecca Janzen (U of South Carolina)

The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century

Adela Pineda Franco (Boston U)

Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington U in St. Louis)

More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico

Alice Driver

Work in Progress

“Ensamblajes poscartesianos entre texto, imagen y cuerpo en Taller de taquimecanografía,” Roberto Cruz Arzabal (U Iberoamericana)

“Fucking with Death and (Not) Yet Cuir: Choking Eroticism through the Work of Inés Arredondo, Kati Horna, and Leonora Carrington,” Francesca Dennstedt (Southern Illinois U Carbondale)

Dude Lit: Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955-2012

Emily Hind (U of Florida)

Reading Group

Desierto Sonoro, Valeria Luiselli

Work in Progress

“Caminar en zapatos migrantes: la empatía y la frontera mexicano-estadounidense en Carne y arena, la instalación de realidad virtual de Alejandro González Iñárritu,” Julie Ann Ward (U of Oaklahoma)

“The Poetics of Bodily -Compositions in Sergio Loo’s Operación al cuerpo enfermo,” Ángel Díaz Miranda (Hollins U)

Orientaciones transpacíficas: la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia

Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez (New York U)

Modernity at Gunpoint: Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America

Sophie Esch (Rice U)