Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Ph.D. 2016, Columbia University) is an Assistant Professor of English at Manhattan College. She specializes in U.S. Latinx and Caribbean literature and cultures, with a strong subspecialty in theories of Race and Ethnicity, as well as migration and Diaspora Studies. Dr. Pérez Jiménez is a 2019-2020 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. She is also the recipient of the 2016 Bancroft Dissertation Prize, The 2017 Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Studies Section Outstanding Dissertation Award, The 2018 Biennial Puerto Rican Studies Association Dissertation Award. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Post45, CENTRO Journal: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, and American Quarterly, and she is working on a book project titled Here To Stay: The Making of Latinx New York that explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latino cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s.  

This lecture was organized by the Latinx Research Working Group at New York University.