Latinas/os are reshaping the United States, the Americas and beyond, and transforming the landscape of higher education. Humanities and social science scholars affiliated with the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell focus on diverse Latino communities in the United States, and engage questions about community histories, im/migration, politics, labor, education, language and identity, health, literature, art and performance.

Drawn to the excitement of an emergent academic and interdisciplinary field of study, undergraduate and graduate students from many different majors are choosing to minor in Latina/o Studies. A focus on diverse U.S. Latino communities is highly relevant to many professions and careers—including medicine and health, law, social policy, education (community-based, school and adult), government, business and many other areas. A majority of Latina/o Studies Program courses are drawn from anthropology, history, government, English, comparative literature, sociology, performing and media studies, music and other departments across the university which offer courses that are cross-listed with the program.

The Latina/o Studies Program undergraduate and graduate minor is available to all students in any college at Cornell.

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Ananda Cohen-Aponte

Associate Professor

Publications

"Reimagining Lost Visual Archives of Black and Indigenous Resistance," Selva: A Journal of the History of Art 3 (2021).

"Imagining Insurgency in Late Colonial Peru” in Visual Culture and Indigenous Agency in the Early Americas, ed. Alessia Frassani (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 188-210.

"Forjando una historia del arte popular: Indigenismo y el arte colonial peruano," in Arte antes de la historia, ed. Marco Curatola Petrocchi, Joanne Pillsbury, and Lisa Trever (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020), 189-212. An edited and abbreviated Spanish translation of "Forging a Popular Art History: Indigenismo and the Art of Colonial Peru."

“Addressing Diversity and Inclusion in Latin American and Latinx Art History” (co-authored with Elena FitzPatrick Sifford), a co-edited “Dialogues” (including essays by Beatriz Balanta, Kency Cornejo, Arlene Dávila, Emmanuel Ortega, Rose Salseda, and Lawrence Waldron), Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1, no. 3 (2019): 60-100.

“Painting Prophecy: Mapping a Polyphonic Chicana Codex Tradition in the Twenty-First Century” (co-authored with Ella Maria Diaz), English Language Notes 57, no. 2 (2019): 22-42.

“Forging a Popular Art History: Indigenismo and the Art of Colonial Peru,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 67-68 (2016-2017): 273-289.

“Decolonizing the Global Renaissance: A View From the Andes,” in The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, ed. Daniel Savoy (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 67-94.

        ** Received Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) Award for Best Article or Essay Published in Latin American Art History in 2017-2018.

Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016).

"Painting Beyond the Frame: Religious Murals of Colonial Peru" (digital supplement to Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between published by MAVCOR: Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, Yale University, 2016).

Pintura colonial cusqueña: el esplendor del arte en los Andes/Paintings of Colonial Cusco: Artistic Splendor in the Andes (served as editor and principal author) (Haynanka Ediciones, 2015).

"From the Jordan River to Lake Titicaca: Images of the Baptism of Christ in Colonial Andean Churches," The Americas 72, no. 1 (2015): 103-140.

"Making Race Visible in the Colonial Andes," in Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America, ed. Pamela Patton (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 187-212.

"Las pinturas murales de la Iglesia de San Pablo de Cacha, Canchis, Peru," Allpanchis XI.II, no. 77-78 (2014): 11-48.

"Painting Andean Liminalities at the Church of Andahuaylillas, Cuzco, Peru," Colonial Latin American Review 22, no. 3 (2013): 369-399.

       ** Awarded Honorable Mention for the Franklin Pease G. Y. Memorial Prize for the best article to appear in Colonial Latin American Review in 2013-2014).

Debra Ann Castillo

Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies

Publications

Books:

The Translated World:  A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature.  Tallahassee:  Florida State UP, l984.

Talking Back:  Toward a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism.  Ithaca:  Cornell UP, l992.

Trans. and Intro., Tijuana:  Stories on the Border by Federico Campbell.  Berkeley:  U of California P., l995.

Easy Women:  Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction.  Minneapolis:  U of Minnesota P., l998.

ed., with Mary Jo Dudley.  Transforming Cultures in the Americas. Ithaca:  Latin American Studies Program, 2000.

ed., with Mary Jo Dudley and Breny Mendoza.  Rethinking Feminisms in the Americas. Ithaca:  Latin American Studies Program, 2000.

ed., with José Edmundo Paz Soldán.  Beyond the Lettered City:  Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Hispanic Issues series.  Garland, 2000.

Border Women:  Writing from La Frontera (with María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002.

Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature. (Albany: SUNY, 2004.)

ed, with Kavita Panjabi.  Cartographies of Affect:  Across Borders in South Asia and the Americas. Kolkata: Worldview Press, 2011.

ed, with Christine Henseler.  Hybrid Storyspaces Companion version online as part of the Cornell Latin American Studies Program working paper series, 2010. Revised, peer reviewed English language Volume published at:  Hispanic Issues series: University of Minnesota, 2012.

ed, with Anindita Banerjee.  Gender, Violence, Dislocation. Cornell Latin American Studies Program working paper volume, 2011.

 co-editor with Stuart Day, Mexican Public Intellectuals.  Palgrave, 2013.

 co-editor with Andrés Lema Hincapié, Despite all Adversities: Spanish American Queer Cinema Latin America.  SUNY, 2015.

co-editor with Shalini Puri, Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities  Palgrave MacMillan 2016.

co-editor with Kavita Panjabi and Debaroti Chakravoty, Centering Borders. Routledge, 2022.

Co-editor with Anindita Banerjee, South of the Future.  SUNY, 2020.

Co-editor with Anna Sims Bartel, The Scholar as Human, Cornell University Press, 2020. open access book.

Co-editor with with Mónica Szurmuk, Latin American Literature in Transition Vol 5.  Cambridge University Press. 2021.

Co-editor with Melissa Castillo Planas. Engaged scholarship and teaching in COVID times, CUP.

Co-editorwith Liliana Colanzi, Horror in Latin America, for Hispanic Issues Online.

 

Mary Pat Brady

Professor

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