By Claudia Milian and María DeGuzmán on February 13, 2019
This session features Salvadoran-Guatemalan-American photographer and illustrator Veronica Melendez, from Washington, D.C. Melendez has been featured in venues such as Remezcla, Mitu, and NPR’s Alt Latino for casting light on Central American artistic production in the D.C. metropolitan area––or, in shorthand,… Read More
By María DeGuzmán and Claudia Milian on March 1, 2018
“Montaged Spaces, Literary Journalism, and Urgency” is the third Podcast from the South, spotlighting Stephanie Elizondo Griest, memoirist, travel writer, and chronicler of the borderlands. Elizondo Griest is also Assistant Professor and Margaret R. Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction at… Read More
By María DeGuzmán and Claudia Milian on February 9, 2018
This second podcast features Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Mirabal is the author of Suspect Freedoms: The… Read More
By Claudia Milian on January 12, 2018
A photograph by artist R. Galvan prominently features a custom rubber stamp from 2017. The piece is titled “Administrative Care” and shows a hand about to continuously imprint this query: “Why did you come to the United States?” This is… Read More