My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…
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Latinx and Chicanx literary, visual, and cultural productions addressing AIDS demonstrate strategies of AIDS consciousness and activism that are distinctly different from the confrontational and politically symbolic actions of largely white male groups like ACT UP, and, as such,…
The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies (cited also as the “Bradbury Center” or the “Center”) is a single author archive, museum, and outreach center housed in the Institute for American Thought, located in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. This dissertation employs a case study …
Traces, presents real, traced, printed and projected marks, sourced from the communal printmaking studios at the University of Arizona. It is a combination of printmaking, glass, and light projection. The exhibition consists of three parts; 8 wall mounted, plastic drypoint plate…
Human Bodies, Urban Bodies: Contemporary Representations of Violence in Literature and Cinema from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala , analyzes three literary and one cinematographic depiction of four violent events: Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990), the…
Ch'ik'xulub: A Non-Visible Crater is an installation based on a fictive story about a scientist from the 1960's who is studying the connection of Earth to the Universe through ancient Mayan science and history. The story is inspired on my grandparent's archive and my research on…
This dissertation, using the case of the historical establishment of the American Sociological Association archives, argues that a lack of collaboration across institutions and among people contributed to difficulties in establishing the significance of the ASA archives as a soc…
This dissertation examines a wide array of performance and media practices in the Iranian diasporas. It argues that any understanding of diasporic imagination and material culture demands an in-depth engagement with cultural histories, including genealogies of media and technolo…
Scholarship has put “the recorded” and “the live” in a state of constant tension, in which archive was posited in opposition to performance, or embodied performance against archive. Here, the archive is posited as a lasting receptacle of artifacts from the past, producing histor…