Dr. Jorge Sánchez Cruz

Biography

Jorge Sánchez Cruz is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in 19th and 21st century Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on Mexico. His research engages with the aesthetic creations of Indigenous, queer, trans*, and undocumented subjects, examining how they reflect and rework the racial and gendered paradigms shaped by the afterlives of slavery and colonization. His current manuscript, titled 'Aesthetics of Repair: AIDS, Race, and Sexual Politics in the Americas', delves into visual culture and literature from Mexico and Chile during the 1980s and 1990s, articulating the experiences and strategies of racialized sexual dissidents in the face of catastrophe. He is also involved in ongoing projects that investigate the re-actualization of colonialism in Coastal Oaxaca. He has held academic appointments at esteemed institutions including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University, and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Sánchez Cruz is proficient in multiple languages, including Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

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