Cristina Pérez Jiménez

Associate Professor, English

Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Ph.D. 2016, Columbia University) is an associate professor of English at Manhattan College. She specializes in U.S. Latinx cultural studies with a focus on race and ethnicity, migration and diaspora studies, urban studies, especially NYC, and histories of the left and ethnic social movements. 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. Her current book project entitled Here to Stay: The Making of Latinx New York explores the emergence of a distinctive New York Latinx cultural identity during the sociopolitical conjuncture of the 1930s and 1940s.

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
    • “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.
    • “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.
    • “‘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.
    • “Puerto Rican Colonialism, Spanish Caribbean Radicalism and Pueblos Hispanos’ ‘Inter-Nationalist’ Alliance.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 23.3 (60): 50-68.
    • “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/.
    • “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.