Latinx Positionalities, Feminist Pedagogies and Unsettling the Neoliberal University

• In Event: Reimagining Settled Spaces: Creativity, Pedagogy, and Activism

Abstract

This talk centers on the pedagogical challenges, limitations and possibilities that Latinx faculty encounter when engaging with feminist studies in the neoliberal university. As faculty of color committed to social justice in our research and in our classrooms, we are aware of the precarious positionality we inhabit as minority bodies operating within a neoliberal educational space. This talk focuses on my positionality as a junior Latina professor housed in a marginal academic space, where my own (trans) and (un)disciplinarity focus in my classroom and in my scholarship can produce tensions among students and within my own discipline.

Presenter

• Viviana Beatriz MacManus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County