Thea Pitman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1361325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thea Pitman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thea |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitman |
| SIGNATURE | PITMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3436-1712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Artificial Intelligence and Indigenous (Self-)Representation: A Model for Agency and Autonomy
The rise of generative AI (Gen-AI) models in cultural production has enabled broader access to image-making, particularly for underrepresented communities. Tools like MidJourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion allow users with little technical expertise to create images from text prompts. However, these models reproduce biases embedded in their training datasets, raising concerns about representation, visibility politics, and data exploitation. Thi…
‘Origem’: Queering Indigeneity through Participatory (Audio)visual Methods in Northeastern Brazil
‘ORIGEM’ (2020) was a queer kind of research project from its inception. Its original funding was for research impact, yet no formal research project came before it. Instead, academics based at the University of Leeds (Paulo Pepe and Thea Pitman) used a modest pot of impact funding to support the work of two emerging artists (Laryssa Machada and Antônio Vital Neto Pankararu) with personal contacts in Queer Indigenous circles in Northeastern Brazi…
Navigating Physical and Digital Environments: Latin American Video Game Studies in Practice
This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school children, asking to what extent games might afford their players impactful embodied experiences and ways …
“We Most Certainly Do Have a Language”
This article proposes that languages should be embraced by the field of extinction studies while at the same time being mindful of the imbrication of colonialism in both the assignation and terminology of extinction and attempts to revive or reclaim endangered and extinct languages. It thus argues for a decolonizing approach to discourses of both language extinction and reclamation. The article starts by contextualizing the complementary extincti…
A "Careful" Reading of Latin/x American Women's Electronic Literature
This article focuses on the recurrent narration of caring relationships and attempts to construct communities of care in electronic literature created by Latin/x American self-identified women. It addresses this topic by reading a select number of these works in relation to the significant body of theory that has emerged since the 1980s around feminist care ethics and its more recent updating to address questions of intersectionality, networked d…
Decolonising the Museum: The Curation of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Brazil
Decolonial and Indigenous Curatorial Theory and Practice in Brazi
A retomada da língua Kariri-Xocó
Desde 1989, a comunidade indígena Kariri-Xocó do estado de Alagoas, Brasil, se envolve em um processo singular de revitalização cultural. Trabalhamos para recuperar nossa língua ancestral, aproveitando as memórias da comunidade por meio de músicas, histórias e rituais, preenchendo assim lacunas em nosso vocabulário. Alguns de nós distribuímos listas de palavras para jovens e adultos da comunidade via WhatsApp, enquanto outros abriram uma escola p…
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature provides a thorough yet accessible overview of a literary phenomenon that has been rapidly globalizing over the past two decades. It takes an innovative approach that underscores the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not merely as an ethnic phenomenon in the United States, but more broadly as a crucial element of a trans-American literary imagination. Leading scholars in the fi…
Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies ‐ Edited by Davies, A., Kumaraswami, P. and Williams, C
Postcolonial compañeras ? The desire for a reciprocal gaze in two Mexican women's accounts of Africa
Introduction: Transatlanticism and tricontinentalism
Introduction: Latin American women's writing, then and now/Las escritoras latinoamericanas, ayer y hoy
As early as 1978 the Colombian writer Albalucia Angel started a project to produce an anthology of interviews with approximately thirty of the Latin American women writers with whom she felt a spec
Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature
This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates …
Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature
Mexican Travel Writing: The Legacy of Foreign Travel Writers in Mexico, or Why Mexicans Say They Don't Write Travel Books
What does the ‘Mexican’ in ‘Mexican travel writing’ actually mean? In the fi eld of English studies in the United Kingdom, its meaning is assumed to be quite straightforward. Thus a critic such as Nigel Leask can publish an article entitled ‘The Ghost in Chapultepec: Fanny Calderon de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts’ safe in the knowledge that ‘Mexican travel accounts’ are those works written about travel…
En primera persona: Subjectivity in Literary Evocations of Pregnancy and Birth by Contemporary Spanish-American Women Writers
The seeming universality of pregnancy is continuously undermined by its concrete historical and local embeddedness (Rapp 1993:66)
Postmodernity, post-tourism and postmodern irony: Juan Villoro's Palmeras de la brisa rápida , and the possibility of a postmodern travel-chronicle
(2004). Postmodernity, post-tourism and postmodern irony: Juan Villoro's Palmeras de la brisa rápida, and the possibility of a postmodern travel-chronicle. Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 77-97
An Impossible Task? Héctor Perea's México, crónica en espiral and the Problems of Writing a Travel-Chronicle of Contemporary Mexico City
This article foregrounds the difficulties inherent in writing a travel-chronicle of contemporary Mexico City at a time when the city itself has been ‘done to death’ by other writers and the genre of the travel-chronicle has fallen from literary grace. Taking a good example of what can be done under these circumstances, Héctor Perea's, México, crónica en espiral (Mexico City, A Spiral-Shaped Chronicle) (1996), it briefly examines evidence of the w…
A retomada da língua Kariri-Xocó
Desde 1989, a comunidade indígena Kariri-Xocó do estado de Alagoas, Brasil, se envolve em um processo singular de revitalização cultural. Trabalhamos para recuperar nossa língua ancestral, aproveitando as memórias da comunidade por meio de músicas, histórias e rituais, preenchendo assim lacunas em nosso vocabulário. Alguns de nós distribuímos listas de palavras para jovens e adultos da comunidade via WhatsApp, enquanto outros abriram uma escola p…
Navigating Physical and Digital Environments: Latin American Video Game Studies in Practice
This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school children, asking to what extent games might afford their players impactful embodied experiences and ways …
Introduction: Transatlanticism and tricontinentalism
Mexican Travel Writing: The Legacy of Foreign Travel Writers in Mexico, or Why Mexicans Say They Don't Write Travel Books
What does the ‘Mexican’ in ‘Mexican travel writing’ actually mean? In the fi eld of English studies in the United Kingdom, its meaning is assumed to be quite straightforward. Thus a critic such as Nigel Leask can publish an article entitled ‘The Ghost in Chapultepec: Fanny Calderon de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts’ safe in the knowledge that ‘Mexican travel accounts’ are those works written about travel…
An Impossible Task? Héctor Perea's México, crónica en espiral and the Problems of Writing a Travel-Chronicle of Contemporary Mexico City
This article foregrounds the difficulties inherent in writing a travel-chronicle of contemporary Mexico City at a time when the city itself has been ‘done to death’ by other writers and the genre of the travel-chronicle has fallen from literary grace. Taking a good example of what can be done under these circumstances, Héctor Perea's, México, crónica en espiral (Mexico City, A Spiral-Shaped Chronicle) (1996), it briefly examines evidence of the w…
Postmodernity, post-tourism and postmodern irony: Juan Villoro's Palmeras de la brisa rápida , and the possibility of a postmodern travel-chronicle
(2004). Postmodernity, post-tourism and postmodern irony: Juan Villoro's Palmeras de la brisa rápida, and the possibility of a postmodern travel-chronicle. Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 77-97
En primera persona: Subjectivity in Literary Evocations of Pregnancy and Birth by Contemporary Spanish-American Women Writers
The seeming universality of pregnancy is continuously undermined by its concrete historical and local embeddedness (Rapp 1993:66)
Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature
This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates …
Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature
Mexican Travel Writing: The Legacy of Foreign Travel Writers in Mexico, or Why Mexicans Say They Don't Write Travel Books
What does the ‘Mexican’ in ‘Mexican travel writing’ actually mean? In the fi eld of English studies in the United Kingdom, its meaning is assumed to be quite straightforward. Thus a critic such as Nigel Leask can publish an article entitled ‘The Ghost in Chapultepec: Fanny Calderon de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts’ safe in the knowledge that ‘Mexican travel accounts’ are those works written about travel…
Introduction: Latin American women's writing, then and now/Las escritoras latinoamericanas, ayer y hoy
As early as 1978 the Colombian writer Albalucia Angel started a project to produce an anthology of interviews with approximately thirty of the Latin American women writers with whom she felt a spec
Postcolonial compañeras ? The desire for a reciprocal gaze in two Mexican women's accounts of Africa
Introduction: Transatlanticism and tricontinentalism
Making Waves Anniversary Volume: Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies ‐ Edited by Davies, A., Kumaraswami, P. and Williams, C
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature provides a thorough yet accessible overview of a literary phenomenon that has been rapidly globalizing over the past two decades. It takes an innovative approach that underscores the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not merely as an ethnic phenomenon in the United States, but more broadly as a crucial element of a trans-American literary imagination. Leading scholars in the fi…
A retomada da língua Kariri-Xocó
Desde 1989, a comunidade indígena Kariri-Xocó do estado de Alagoas, Brasil, se envolve em um processo singular de revitalização cultural. Trabalhamos para recuperar nossa língua ancestral, aproveitando as memórias da comunidade por meio de músicas, histórias e rituais, preenchendo assim lacunas em nosso vocabulário. Alguns de nós distribuímos listas de palavras para jovens e adultos da comunidade via WhatsApp, enquanto outros abriram uma escola p…
Decolonising the Museum: The Curation of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Brazil
Decolonial and Indigenous Curatorial Theory and Practice in Brazi
“We Most Certainly Do Have a Language”
This article proposes that languages should be embraced by the field of extinction studies while at the same time being mindful of the imbrication of colonialism in both the assignation and terminology of extinction and attempts to revive or reclaim endangered and extinct languages. It thus argues for a decolonizing approach to discourses of both language extinction and reclamation. The article starts by contextualizing the complementary extincti…
A "Careful" Reading of Latin/x American Women's Electronic Literature
This article focuses on the recurrent narration of caring relationships and attempts to construct communities of care in electronic literature created by Latin/x American self-identified women. It addresses this topic by reading a select number of these works in relation to the significant body of theory that has emerged since the 1980s around feminist care ethics and its more recent updating to address questions of intersectionality, networked d…
‘Origem’: Queering Indigeneity through Participatory (Audio)visual Methods in Northeastern Brazil
‘ORIGEM’ (2020) was a queer kind of research project from its inception. Its original funding was for research impact, yet no formal research project came before it. Instead, academics based at the University of Leeds (Paulo Pepe and Thea Pitman) used a modest pot of impact funding to support the work of two emerging artists (Laryssa Machada and Antônio Vital Neto Pankararu) with personal contacts in Queer Indigenous circles in Northeastern Brazi…
Navigating Physical and Digital Environments: Latin American Video Game Studies in Practice
This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school children, asking to what extent games might afford their players impactful embodied experiences and ways …
Artificial Intelligence and Indigenous (Self-)Representation: A Model for Agency and Autonomy
The rise of generative AI (Gen-AI) models in cultural production has enabled broader access to image-making, particularly for underrepresented communities. Tools like MidJourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion allow users with little technical expertise to create images from text prompts. However, these models reproduce biases embedded in their training datasets, raising concerns about representation, visibility politics, and data exploitation. Thi…
Sociology (12 works) · Art (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works)