Cristina Pérez Jiménez

Associate Professor, English

Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Ph.D. 2016, Columbia University) is an associate professor in the English, World Languages and Literatures Department at Manhattan College. She specializes in Latinx and Caribbean cultural studies with a focus on race and ethnicity; migration and diaspora studies; urban studies, especially NYC; histories of the left and ethnic social movements; and Latinx and Caribbean Digital Humanities. She is a recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, among other national awards.

Dr. Pérez Jiménez is the co-editor of a bilingual scholarly edition of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s Manhattan Tropics/Trópico en Manhattan (Arte Público, 2019), winner of a 2020 International Latino Book Award. Her scholarship has appeared in Latino Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Post45, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, and American Quarterly. She is currently co-editing The Cambridge History of the Latino/a Novel. Her book Here to Stay: The Making of Latinx New York, which explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latinx cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. 

Education

  • Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2016.
  • M.Phil. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2014.
  • M.A. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2011.
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2009, with high honors.
  • B.A. in English, Manhattanville College, 2006, summa cum laude
  • Publications and Scholarly Activities
    • “José Luis González in Nueva York.” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, special issue on The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition. (forthcoming 2026)
    • “Latinx Archives of Joy,” in Archives, Memory & the Present Past of Puerto Rico, edited by Yomaira Figueroa-Vasquez, New York, NY: Centro Press (Forthcoming 2026).
    • “Not So Systematically: A Response Jeffrey Lawrence’s “Mobilizing Literature: Social Movements and         Post-1945 US Literary Studies,” Post45 March 28, 2025: https://post45.org/2025/03/not-so-systematically/  
    • “Latinx Digital Humanities,” New Direction in Latinx Studies, edited by Yolanda Padilla and William Orchard, Cambridge University Press (Accepted)
    • “Solidarity in the Barrio: Reassessing the Radical Legacy of Jesús Colón Across a Century,” Latinx Marxisms: Revolutionary Nationalism, Socialism and Communism in Latina/o/x History, Politics & Culture, edited by Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Ben Valdez Olguín, Jennifer Ponce de León. (Accepted)
    • “Ybor City Inaugurates an Antifascist Mural,” The Volunteer (Fall 2023): https://albavolunteer.org/2023/11/ybor-city-inaugurates-an-antifascist-mural.
    • “Mapping Jean Franco’s Legacy.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 76.2 (December 2023): 214-8.
    • “Introducing ‘The Latino Catskills Project.’ Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Blog (October 2021):https://recoveryprojectappblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/11/introducing-the-latino-catskills-project.  
    • “Memoria y militancia: El testimonio oral de Gilberto Concepción de Gracia para el ‘Spanish Book Project.’” In Gilberto Concepción de Gracia. San Juan, PR: Universidad Interamericana, 2021, pp. 167-174.
    •  “The Border’s Bright Dead Things: On Ada Limón’s Poetry,” Post-45, issue on Contemporary Latinx Poetics (January 2020): http://post45.org/2020/01/the-borders-bright-dead-things-on-ada-limons-embodied-poetics/.
    • “Los Amigos de Wallace: Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Bid to Capture the Latino Vote.” Latino Studies 19.3 (September 2021): 286-309.
    • Manuel Ramos Otero y su “archivo vivo de posibilidades:” Una entrevista a Frances Negrón Muntaner,” Revista Cruce (May 2021): 36-41.
    • “‘Silencio en la Casa’: Political Silence and Cultural Conflict between Hispanists and Hispanics in New York during the Spanish Civil War.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 74.1 (April 2021): 80-94.
    • “Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan.” Co-authored with J. Bret Maney. Latinx Talk. The Ohio State University Libraries (March 2020): https://latinxtalk.org/2020/03/18/transplanting-the-tropics-in-manhattan/.
    •  “Puerto Rican Colonialism, Spanish Caribbean Radicalism and Pueblos Hispanos’ ‘Inter-Nationalist’ Alliance.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 23.3 (60): 50-68.     *Awarded Honorable Mention for the LASA-Puerto Rican Studies Section’s 2020 Blanca G. Silvestrini Award for Outstanding Article in Puerto Rican Studies
    • “The Early Latinx Camp Aesthetics of Pedro Caballero’s Paca Antillana (1931).” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 30.2 (Summer 2018): 42-63.
    • “CENTRO Journal: Three Decades of Struggle and Scholarship in Support of Puerto Rican Studies.” Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Latino Studies Journal 20:2 (Oct. 2017): 33-46.
    • “From the Archives: On Two ‘Lost’ Poems by Julia de Burgos.” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 29.2 (Summer 2017): 76-91.