The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, Speculation

The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory Speculation both studies and utilizes through practice the geographically dispersed collections of multilingual documents and multimedia objects that constitute the Latinx archive. It creates a space for interdisciplinary dialogue and knowledge production in fields including cultural and intellectual history, literary analysis, translation, creative writing, and critical archive studies. A group of six core faculty shares with graduate fellows a scaffolded set of activities that will begin each year with monthly meetings as a reading group, move through multiple virtual and in-person archive visits, and culminate in presentations of original work at public symposia.

Goals

Produce new modes of thinking about the Latinx past by engaging models of temporality that do not presume common origins or unbroken continuities and traditions.

Circulate knowledge among scholars at different career stages who come in with varying regional and ethno-national interests.

Transform interdisciplinary scholarship, incubate creative projects, stimulate improved classroom practice, and engage general audiences with the question of Latinx memory.

Principal Investigators

Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Professor and Chair of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY and Professor of English at Queens College CUNY

Anita Huizar-Hernández, Associate Professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University

Investigators

Yomaira Figueroa, Associate Professor of Global Afro-Diaspora Studies at Michigan State University

Jaime Javier Rodríguez, Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas

Cristofer Rodelo, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California Irvine

Fellows

Ricardo Martín Coloma, Crossing Latinidades Research Fellow 2022-2023, Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center

Mario Alberto Gómez-Zamora, Crossing Latinidades Research Fellow 2022-2023, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Vanessa Moreno, Crossing Latinidades Research Fellow 2022-2023, Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona