Postdoctoral Fellows
Cintia Martínez Velasco
2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
- Cintia Martínez Velasco was Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Critical Theory and Latin American Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Program of Critical Theory, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University from 2019-2020. Following her Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship she gave courses in Gender, Violence and Community Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and Decolonial Theory and Femicide, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She will be taking up a position as Assistant Professor in Latinx and/or Decolonial Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, Eugene in Fall 2022.
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RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
“Chiasmic Identities and Feminicide: An Ontological Approach for a Legal Problem.” In Women in the History of Philosophy and Science Series, edited by Ruth Hagengruber, Springer, forthcoming.
“Notes To Understand Colonial Patriarchy as Producer of Goods.” In Scopes and Current Challenges in Feminism, edited by Griselda Gutiérrez and Mariflor Aguilar, UNAM, forthcoming.
“Appendix: Modern Reflections on Critique of Latin American Reason: Intervention by chapter, chapter IV.” In Critique of Latin American Reason, Columbia University Press, New York, 2021.
“Versions of Feminism: Thought on the Reach of This Theory.” In Critical Thinking and Criticism of Thought, edited by Diana Fuentes and Rafael Mondragón, Issue 1, 47-48, 2015.
“No Self-indulgent Readings in Contemporary Feminism.” In Memory Journal, Militant Criticism Journal, No. 262, 217-2 (peer-reviewed).
- In Spring 2020, Cintia Martínez Velasco taught SPAN 397/COMP_LIT 383/GNDR_ST 341 - Latin America Critical Theory, at Northwestern University.
A video presentation of key concepts of the course can be seen here.
A copy of the class syllabus can be downloaded here.
Here is Alan Chavoya, a graduate student in the course, discussing the material.
- In Winter 2020, Cintia Martínez 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 Martínez 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 Martínez 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.
Watch Cintia Martínez Velasco and José Medina speak more on the project here.
Jorge Sánchez Cruz
2018-2019 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jorge Sánchez Cruz’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Critical Theory and Latin American Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Program of Critical Theory, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University was followed by an ACLS postdoctoral research fellowship in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor (in Spanish) at Harvard University.
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RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
“Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocu-Queer Aesthetics, and the Right to Thrive, Social Text, forthcoming.
Trans Readings and Translocalities in Macanera Gómez Barris’ Beyond the Pink Tide,” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (vol. 8. no. 3, 2021, pp. 409-412.
“Suspensión de género: travestismo y la cuestión de lo trans en Salón de belleza (1999),” Revista de estudios de género, La ventana, vol. 6, no. 54, 2021, pp. 304-325.
- January 13-17, 2020 | Northwestern
Jorge Sanchez Cruz participated in the culminating event in the CTGS project's 'After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas' subproject. Professors Daniel Link and Mariana López Seone of Universidad Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina visited Northwestern University for a series of collaborative meetings with faculty and students, organized as one of the concluding events of the 'After Foucault' subproject. This week-long series of events focused upon the subject of 'Critical Concepts on Latin American Queer/Cuir Theory and Literature' and also featured contributions from renowned Latin American author Mario Bellatin. Full details of the events can be found here.
- 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 21st 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.
- In Spring 2019, Jorge Sánchez Cruz taught SPAN397/COMP_LIT 390 - Sexual Dissidence & Activism in Latin America. A copy of the class syllabus can be downloaded here
- In Winter 2019, Jorge Sánchez Cruz taught SPAN 397/COMP_LIT 307/GNDR_ST 341 - Queer Theory (in) Latin America. A copy of the class syllabus can be downloaded here
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