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Juliana Martinez Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures

Degrees
PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures. University of California, Berkeley


BA in Literature. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogot谩, Colombia

Bio
Professor Mart铆nez focuses on the intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America. Her two main areas of research are: representation of historical violence recent cultural production; and gender and sexuality鈥攑articularly transgender studies. Her book "" was released in December 2020, and is the winner of the 2021 William M. Leo Grande Award.


Professor Mart铆nez regularly teaches courses on Latin 猫咪社区app literature, film and history; gender and sexuality; Latin 猫咪社区app feminisms; narratives of violence (particularly in Colombia and Mexico); and women writers in Latin America.


Within the AU community, Professor Mart铆nez is also part of the advisory board of the Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies program, and a member of the Center for Latin 猫咪社区app and Latino Studies (CLALS).


Recent publications include the book (loosely translated as Trans-ing knowledge: trans* people鈥檚 education in Argentina). Co-edited with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, and published with La Universidad Nacional de La Plata (2018), the book gathers the personal narratives of 33 trans students and teachers as they reflect on the challenges and opportunities of trans-inclusion in 3 different sites of public education in Argentina. The 2019 dossier "Violent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico鈥 was edited in collaboration with for .
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Articles

  • 鈥.鈥澨Revista de Estudios Colombianos.听55 (2020): 42-49.
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. "Competing Visions and Contested Spaces in La sirga and Colombia magia salvaje." LIII. March, 2019.
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 鈥溾楳aking audible in the mouth whereof one cannot speak鈥: Spectral Adoptions in Juan Manuel Echavarr铆a鈥檚 Requiem NN.鈥 Journal of Latin 猫咪社区app Cultural Studies: Traves铆a. Online First, Feb. 6th, 2019:
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 鈥淏eyond the Ventriloquism of Diversity, How Mujer T is Transing Inclusion in Bogot谩.鈥 Special Issue: Contested Terrains: Women of Color and Third World Women, Feminisms, and Geopolitics. Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Vol. 32, Issue 3 (Summer 2017): 679-695.
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 鈥淒ressed Like a Man? Of Language, Bodies and Monsters in the Trial of Enrique/Enriqueta Favez and its Contemporary Accounts.鈥 Journal of the History of Sexuality. 26, 2 (May 2017): 188-206. 听听听听听听听
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 2014. 鈥溾楳onstruosa caricia鈥, espectralidad, (auto)erotismo y resistencia en Se帽or que no conoce la luna.鈥 Interdisciplina, Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades de la Universidad Aut贸noma de M茅xico. Vol. 2, nu虂m. 3 (2014): 91-108.

Co-authored articles

  • Mart铆nez, Juliana and Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador. 鈥淭ravar el saber: travesti-centred knowledge-making and education.鈥 Bulletin of Latin 猫咪社区app Research. 40:5 (2021): 665鈥678.
  • Chaux, Enrique; Le贸n, Manuela; Mart铆nez, Juliana; and Cuellar, Lina. 鈥淎ttitudes Toward Homosexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean.鈥澨Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. January 22, 2021. Doi:听
  • Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador, and Mart铆nez, Juliana.听2018. 鈥淟atinx thoughts: Latinidad with an X.鈥 Latino Studies. October, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp 384鈥395.
  • Cornejo, Giancarlo; Mart铆nez, Juliana; Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador.听2018. 鈥淟GBT studies without LGBT studies: mapping alternative pathways in Per煤 and Colombia.鈥 Journal of Homosexuality. Special issue: 鈥25 years on: The state and continuing development of LGBTQ Studies programs.鈥澨齇nline First:听

Edited Volumes

Books

  • Mart铆nez, Juliana and Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador. Eds. 鈥淭ravar el saber, experiencias trans/travestis de educaci贸n en Argentina鈥. Universidad de la Plata, Argentina. 2018. Available at:听

Especial Editions 鈥 Peer Reviewed Journals:

  • Mart铆nez, Juliana; Su谩rez Rodr铆guez, Helena; and Gil Hern谩ndez, Franklin. Eds. 鈥Revista de Estudios Colombianos. 58:2 (2021).
  • Aristiz谩bal Juanita and Mart铆nez Juliana. Eds. 鈥淰iolent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico.鈥澨Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. 53:1 (2019).

Book chapters

  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 2021. 鈥溾淪iempre agua鈥, el diluirse del sujeto, el tiempo y la violencia en la obra de Tom谩s Gonz谩lez.鈥 听In听El manglar de la memoria. Ensayos cr铆ticos sobre la obra de Tom谩s Gonz谩lez, edited by Claudia Montilla and Norman Valencia. Universidad de Los Andes Press: Bogot谩, Colombia, 411-436. Best Book Compilation Award. Asociaci贸n de Colombianistas, 2021.
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 2017. 鈥溾橪a mirada sin perspectiva de la niebla鈥, fantolog铆a y desaparici贸n en En el lejero.鈥 In Evelio Rosero y lo ciclos de la creaci贸n literaria. Edited by Felipe G贸mez and Mar铆a del Carmen Saldarriaga. Opera Eximia Collection, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana University Press, Bogot谩, Colombia, 37-56.
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 2015. 鈥淔og Instead of Land, Spectral Topographies of Disappearance in Colombia鈥檚 Recent Literature and Film.鈥 In Espectros, Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives. Edited by Alberto Ribas-Casayas and Amanda L. Petersen.听2016. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, 117-131.
  • Mart铆nez, Juliana. 2014. 鈥淟o que no se nombra no existe. Regulaci贸n, medios de comunicaci贸n y g茅nero en Colombia.鈥 In Pol铆ticas p煤blicas de comunicaci贸n y g茅nero en Latino Am茅rica: un camino por recorrer. Edited by Sandra Chaher. Comunicaci贸n para la Igualdad Ediciones y Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: Buenos Aires, 43-59.

Public Scholarship and Media Appearances

  • 2021 鈥淟atinx Characters in Hightown鈥檚 Second Season: 听鈥淎 Much-Needed Dose of Context and Complexity.鈥濃 Ms. Magazine听

  • 2021 鈥淟enguaje inclusivo para todas, todos y todes.鈥 Caracol Radio, Colombia. Abril 18, 2021.

  • 2020 鈥淒e la hetero-normatividad al desarrollo incluyente鈥 驴Y si hablamos de igualdad? Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, BID.

  • 2020 鈥淪panish Language: Unlikely Battleground for Gender Inclusion鈥澨 AULA Blog. Center for Latin 猫咪社区app and Latino Studies. 猫咪社区app University.

  • 2018. 鈥淐ultural Appropriation & Holidays: When Does Celebrating Become Stereotyping?鈥 The Kojo Nnambdi Show. May 2, 2018.听

  • 2017.听听鈥淲e Need to Talk About the Shifting Meaning of Diversity.鈥 Diverse Issues in Higher Education听
  • 2017. 鈥13 Reasons Why,听Stop Telling Young Women True Love Will Save Them.鈥 HuffingtonPost听
  • 2016. 鈥淛-Lo's narco drama needs to dig deep to avoid Colombian cocaine stereotypes鈥 The Guardian听