Professing Dissent in 21st Century US Latinx Studies: in the Classroom, at the University, and Beyond.

Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Dialogue Format

Abstract

This roundtable includes a variety of senior and mid-career scholars of US Latinx studies who have participated actively as teachers, scholars and administrators at a range of diverse institutions: public and private, national and regional, R1's and liberal arts colleges. The session theme combines problematics from such recent studies as Cristina Beltrán's "The Trouble With Unity," Robyn Wiegman's "Object Lessons" and Roderick Ferguson's "The Reorder of Things" to ask: how can US Latinx studies, as at once an intellectual, ideological and institutional project, maintain its core mission of dissent, its core commitment to the critique of the kind of power that built the contemporary (neoliberal, corporate, imperial) US University, as its practitioners take their work, and their struggle, from the classroom to the other institutional spaces they find themselves entering as administrators, and finally to the relevant spaces beyond (yet often just outside) the University (from local communities, to political districts, to the rapidly shifting spaces defined by regional, national and hemispheric geopolitics).

Sub Unit

• American Studies Association Annual Meeting

Chair

• Ricardo L. Ortiz, Georgetown University

Panelists

• Lazaro Lima, University of Richmond

• Claudia Milian, Duke University

• John M Gonzalez, University of Texas at Austin

• Charlene Villaseñor Black, University of California, Los Angeles

• Nancy Mirabal, University of Maryland at College Park