Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, scholar, founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activisms collection at Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Details about the subject, time, and venue of her public talk will be published here as soon as they are known.

Negrón-Muntaner’s work spans multiple disciplines and practices, including cinema, literature, cultural criticism, and politics. Her work focuses on a comparative exploration of coloniality in the Americas, with special attention to the intersections between race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Among her books and publications are: Puerto Rican Jam (1997), Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (CHOICE Award, 2004), The Latino Media Gap (2014), and Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism in Native Nations and Latinx America (2017). Her films include AIDS in the Barrio: Eso no me pasa a mí (co-directed with Peter Biella), Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican, and War for Guam.  Negrón-Muntaner has received…