Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley. January 1992- May 1996.
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, August 1990-December 1991.
B. A., University of Puerto Rico, Summa cum Laude, August 1984-May 1989.
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel specializes on Colonial Latin American discourses and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives; colonial and postcolonial theory, sexuality and gender studies, migration and cultural studies. Professor Martínez-San Miguel is the author of Saberes americanos: subalternidad y epistemología en los escritos de Sor Juana (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1999), Caribe Two Ways: cultura de la migración en el Caribe insular hispánico (Ediciones Callejón, 2003), awarded the Second Prize for Research and Literary Critics by the Instituto de Literature Puertorriqueña of the University of Puerto Rico in 2004; From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2008). and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context (Palgrave, 2014).
She recently co-edited four anthologies: Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought (with Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui and Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Palgrave, 2016, Spanish edition released by the Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana in 2018); Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities (with Sarah Tobias, Rutgers University Press, 2016); Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations (with Michelle Stephens, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020); and The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) (with Santa Arias, Routledge, 2021). She is currently working on her fifth book project, “Archipiélagos de ultramar: Rethinking Colonial and Caribbean Studies,” which uses comparative archipelagic studies as a historical and theoretical framework to propose a different research agenda for the study of cultural productions in the Caribbean between 1498 and 2010.
Interview: Phi Betta Kappa Scholar Program 2020-2021:24 minutes | Sep 24th 2020
Latin American Scholar Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Connects
Latin American Identities Across Geography and Literature
As a critical reader and writer, Professor Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel at the University of Miami contextualizes colonial literature and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives, exploring issues of gender, sexuality, and migration. She speaks with Fred about feminism in colonial times, the literary thread between islands ruled by different empires, and what art and activism reveal about colonial legacies.
Podcast:
Transcript:
Link to open access columns: 80 grados
Contact information:
electronic mail: [email protected]
Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley. January 1992- May 1996.
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, August 1990-December 1991.
B. A., University of Puerto Rico, Summa cum Laude, August 1984-May 1989.
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel specializes on Colonial Latin American discourses and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives; colonial and postcolonial theory, sexuality and gender studies, migration and cultural studies. Professor Martínez-San Miguel is the author of Saberes americanos: subalternidad y epistemología en los escritos de Sor Juana (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1999), Caribe Two Ways: cultura de la migración en el Caribe insular hispánico (Ediciones Callejón, 2003), awarded the Second Prize for Research and Literary Critics by the Instituto de Literature Puertorriqueña of the University of Puerto Rico in 2004; From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2008). and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context (Palgrave, 2014).
She recently co-edited four anthologies: Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought (with Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui and Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Palgrave, 2016, Spanish edition released by the Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana in 2018); Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities (with Sarah Tobias, Rutgers University Press, 2016); Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations (with Michelle Stephens, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020); and The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) (with Santa Arias, Routledge, 2021). She is currently working on her fifth book project, “Archipiélagos de ultramar: Rethinking Colonial and Caribbean Studies,” which uses comparative archipelagic studies as a historical and theoretical framework to propose a different research agenda for the study of cultural productions in the Caribbean between 1498 and 2010.
Interview: Phi Betta Kappa Scholar Program 2020-2021:24 minutes | Sep 24th 2020
Latin American Scholar Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Connects
Latin American Identities Across Geography and Literature
As a critical reader and writer, Professor Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel at the University of Miami contextualizes colonial literature and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives, exploring issues of gender, sexuality, and migration. She speaks with Fred about feminism in colonial times, the literary thread between islands ruled by different empires, and what art and activism reveal about colonial legacies.
Podcast:
Transcript:
Link to open access columns: 80 grados
Contact information:
electronic mail: [email protected]
