Matthew Goldmark
Biographic Data
| ID | 4682186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Goldmark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldmark |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDMARK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
The Geopolitics of La Llorona and Migrant Motherhood in Batwoman
This article studies the transformation of La Llorona into a figuration of the often-called “border crisis” in contemporary US media. With roots in the preconquest period, La Llorona is a legendary mother figure who steals children after drowning her own and dying by suicide. While Latin American and Latinx narratives treat her as ambivalent, I show that US television, movies, and comics refashion key elements of La Llorona’s legend to cast her a…
Moved by Pity: Communities of Affect in the Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez
This article demonstrates that Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690) engages the discourse of pity to create an imperial community. While the article builds on recent scholarship that has emphasized the global context of Ramírez’s travels, it shows that geographical displacement is not the only type of movement in this text. Infortunios also demands that readers be moved on an affective level in order to prove their …
Desire in the Archives
In Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain, Zeb Tortorici asks how “unnatural acts” were interpreted and inscribed in archives across the Spanish empire's viceroyalty of New Spain, a massive territorial holding in the Americas from 1535 to 1821. To answer this question, Tortorici compiles and engages over three hundred documents, including what he identifies as Inquisition and criminal cases, judicial summaries, denunciations,…
Reading Habits: Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality
This article reconsiders the subject of early modern Spanish gender and sexuality studies by analyzing the relación de méritos y servicios presented by the famed ‘Lieutenant Nun’ Catalina de Erauso to the Council of the Indies. Studies have focused on the Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alferez, a biography of disputed authorship, and its transgressive protagonist who hides gender identity and illicit desires from persecuting authorities. In contrast,…
National Drag
This essay analyzes season 1 of the reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race to argue that the program presents drag as a path for upward mobility in the contemporary United States. At the same time, it demonstrates how language—in particular Spanish—troubles the program's official narrative of gay integration made possible by self-fashioning. In the first section, it describes Drag Race's ambivalence around race, class, gender presentation, …
The Telephonic Revolution of the Digital Image
National Drag
This essay analyzes season 1 of the reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race to argue that the program presents drag as a path for upward mobility in the contemporary United States. At the same time, it demonstrates how language—in particular Spanish—troubles the program's official narrative of gay integration made possible by self-fashioning. In the first section, it describes Drag Race's ambivalence around race, class, gender presentation, …
Reading Habits: Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality
This article reconsiders the subject of early modern Spanish gender and sexuality studies by analyzing the relación de méritos y servicios presented by the famed ‘Lieutenant Nun’ Catalina de Erauso to the Council of the Indies. Studies have focused on the Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alferez, a biography of disputed authorship, and its transgressive protagonist who hides gender identity and illicit desires from persecuting authorities. In contrast,…
The Telephonic Revolution of the Digital Image
Reading Habits: Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality
This article reconsiders the subject of early modern Spanish gender and sexuality studies by analyzing the relación de méritos y servicios presented by the famed ‘Lieutenant Nun’ Catalina de Erauso to the Council of the Indies. Studies have focused on the Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alferez, a biography of disputed authorship, and its transgressive protagonist who hides gender identity and illicit desires from persecuting authorities. In contrast,…
National Drag
This essay analyzes season 1 of the reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race to argue that the program presents drag as a path for upward mobility in the contemporary United States. At the same time, it demonstrates how language—in particular Spanish—troubles the program's official narrative of gay integration made possible by self-fashioning. In the first section, it describes Drag Race's ambivalence around race, class, gender presentation, …
Desire in the Archives
In Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain, Zeb Tortorici asks how “unnatural acts” were interpreted and inscribed in archives across the Spanish empire's viceroyalty of New Spain, a massive territorial holding in the Americas from 1535 to 1821. To answer this question, Tortorici compiles and engages over three hundred documents, including what he identifies as Inquisition and criminal cases, judicial summaries, denunciations,…
Moved by Pity: Communities of Affect in the Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez
This article demonstrates that Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690) engages the discourse of pity to create an imperial community. While the article builds on recent scholarship that has emphasized the global context of Ramírez’s travels, it shows that geographical displacement is not the only type of movement in this text. Infortunios also demands that readers be moved on an affective level in order to prove their …
Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
The Geopolitics of La Llorona and Migrant Motherhood in Batwoman
This article studies the transformation of La Llorona into a figuration of the often-called “border crisis” in contemporary US media. With roots in the preconquest period, La Llorona is a legendary mother figure who steals children after drowning her own and dying by suicide. While Latin American and Latinx narratives treat her as ambivalent, I show that US television, movies, and comics refashion key elements of La Llorona’s legend to cast her a…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)