Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 289985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathryn Josefina |
| FAMILY NAME | Merla-Watson |
| SIGNATURE | MERLA-WATSON C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Horrific to the Utopic
Research Article| March 01 2016 From the Horrific to the Utopic: Pan-Latin@ Speculative Poetics and Politics Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson is an assistant professor in the Mexican American studies program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her teaching and research interests include Chican@ and Latin@ literary and cultural studies, and she is completing a book manuscript titl…
Staging Darker Desires
While much of Latina feminist scholarship focuses on how colonial imaginaries subtend the white male Eurocentric gaze, there persists an aporia regarding how Latina desire is haunted by coloniality. This article addresses this absence by placing into conversation Chicana and decolonial Latina feminisms—including the work of María Lugones, Cherríe Moraga, Emma Pérez, and Lorna Dee Cervantes—to conceptualize the “coloniality of affect” and examine …
Staging Darker Desires
While much of Latina feminist scholarship focuses on how colonial imaginaries subtend the white male Eurocentric gaze, there persists an aporia regarding how Latina desire is haunted by coloniality. This article addresses this absence by placing into conversation Chicana and decolonial Latina feminisms—including the work of María Lugones, Cherríe Moraga, Emma Pérez, and Lorna Dee Cervantes—to conceptualize the “coloniality of affect” and examine …
From the Horrific to the Utopic
Research Article| March 01 2016 From the Horrific to the Utopic: Pan-Latin@ Speculative Poetics and Politics Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson is an assistant professor in the Mexican American studies program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her teaching and research interests include Chican@ and Latin@ literary and cultural studies, and she is completing a book manuscript titl…
Staging Darker Desires
While much of Latina feminist scholarship focuses on how colonial imaginaries subtend the white male Eurocentric gaze, there persists an aporia regarding how Latina desire is haunted by coloniality. This article addresses this absence by placing into conversation Chicana and decolonial Latina feminisms—including the work of María Lugones, Cherríe Moraga, Emma Pérez, and Lorna Dee Cervantes—to conceptualize the “coloniality of affect” and examine …
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work)