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Jonathan Leal is a scholar, critic, and composer-producer invested in creative resistances in a bordered world. Raised in the South Texas border region known as the Rio Grande Valley, Leal creates integrative arts research projects that span media with a focus on place, memory, technology, and radical aesthetics. He is the author of 'Wild Tongue: Borderlands Mixtape' (Duke University Press, 2026) and 'Dreams Double Time: Race, Freedom, Bebop.' His work explores various themes such as Music Sound Studies, Transdisciplinarity, Relational Studies of Race and Ethnicity, and the aesthetics of the U.S.-Mexico border. Leal's research contributes to a deeper understanding of Chicanx and Latinx media literatures and modernity/coloniality in contemporary contexts.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Tenure Track Appointment in the Department of English.
Society Fellows Humanities, University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Postdoctoral appointment focusing on humanities research.
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