Postdoctoral Fellows

Cintia Martinez Velasco 

2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

• In Spring 2020, Cintia Martinez Velasco will be teaching SPAN 397 - Latin America Critical Theory, at Northwestern University.

         A copy of the class syllabus can be downloaded here.

• In Winter 2020, Cintia Martinez Velasco taught the class SPAN 395 - Latin American Feminism and Latinx Feminism, at Northwestern University. 

         A copy of the class syllabus can be downloaded here.

         A bibliography of academic references used in the class can be downloaded here.

• In October 2019, Cintia Martinez Velasco participated in the 'Errant Syllabi' workshop, a culminating event in the CTGS project's 'University and Its Publics' subproject.  Faculty and graduate students from Northwestern, UNAM, and Rutgers gathered on Northwestern University's downtown Chicago campus for a three-day series of presentations and collaborative meetings, with the goal of producing innovative academic syllabi in the field of Latinx and Latin American Gender Theory.  The workshop schedule can be accessed here.  A detailed precis of the workshop, written by Northwestern PhD candidate Carmen De Schryver, can be accessed here.
• In Fall 2018/Winter 2019, Cintia Martinez Velasco was an Andrew W. Mellon International Predoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, awarded by the Critical Theory in the Global South project.  This fellowship allowed Velasco to work with Northwestern University Professor José Medina on their collaborative subproject, Critical Epistemology, Knowing Through Gender and the Decolonial.

   

Jorge Sánchez Cruz

2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

• On March 5, 2019 Jorge Sánchez Cruz gave a talk entitled Politics of Illegibility: Aesthetics, Sexual Dissidence, and Mexico for faculty and students at Northwestern University. His presentation analyzed two particular historical junctures in Mexican culture, the 1990s and the last decade of the 21^st century. Paying attention to aesthetic productions as symptoms of a national crisis, his talk reflected on political possibilities that emerged from subcultural fields and disempowered subjectivities.