Chinos before the yellow race: Catarina de San Juan, the achinada mystic of New Spain
This essay explores early modern forms of anti-Asian racism by reading two hagiographies of Catarina de San Juan (ca.1607–1688), an alleged fair-skinned princess from the Mughal Empire who disembar...
I am happy to share that my open-access article, "Chinos before the yellow race: Catarina de San Juan, the achinada mystic of New Spain" is out in Colonial Latin American Review. I wrote about Catarina’s importance to the scholarship on premodern critical race studies and Afro-Asian intimacies.
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Campus Abductions — We Are Higher Ed
The (ad hoc, all-volunteer) team I'm part of at @wearehighered.bsky.social is keeping a list of everything we can about student visa revocations and campus abductions by ICE. You can find it here, and send updates via dm to the bsky account, or on the website. www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...
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NEH Grants 2025
NEH Grants 2025
Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org
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PhD Spanish and Portuguese at Yale | Canícula (Laiovento, 2025), Os corpos fráxiles (Aira Editorial, 2024) | Galician studies, Latin American theatre, environment, migration & performance studies.
Gaditano. Doctorando en U. de Oviedo. Entre Ilustración y Romanticismo 📖.
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis
Director, UC Iberian Studies Consortium
CompLit | Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies | Iberian Studies | Translation (Port. to Eng.)
Western New Yorker, naturalized Californian, runner, punk fan.
✍️ en LaJornada y La Tempestad |📺 en
@canal22 | Posgrado UNAM | Alumni Berlin '16 Cannes'14 | Programo cine en Casa de México en España | Geopolítica cultural | Profesor | Sur Global | Bisexual
PhD Candidate in History @UChicago
Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
(he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021)
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
Engage the past, define the future | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Throughlines | ACMRS Press | RaceB4Race
prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
I read for a living. It’s fun! Latin America, Afro-Latin America, Black feminism, Black perspectives
Sociologist @ Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times https://tinyurl.com/bdep3r4a and Approaches to Mixed Methods Research https://tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8. she/her | queer | radical, apparently
History professor at Johns Hopkins University. Author of the "The First Asians in the Americas." Co-creator of "The Historian's Table" podcast. Designer of a board game in development called "Obraje." Avid fencer.
Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre
Writer, educator, advocacy speaker
Leo y miro fútbol | ABD in Spanish & Portuguese at Yale | Latin Americanist exploring cannibalism, 16th-century travelers of the Río de la Plata, modern Latin American literature, indigenous studies | Made in Uruguay
Early Modern Literature, Premodern Critical Race Studies, Racist Rhetoric, Performance Studies #ShakeRace #raceb4race
Sowing seeds 🌱 Making sensations 💫 (Dr, she/they)
Design historian, educator, image maker.
Hong Kong, design history, material/visual/spatial culture, everyday.
@iias.bsky.social Asia in the World Fellow.
https://vivienchan.co.uk/
SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥
