Landscapes of Belonging
Latin@ Literatures: Special Issue
In collaboration with Texas A&M University
Landscapes of Belonging: A Latin@ Literatures Special Issue dedicated to Afro-Latinx Poetics. With Guest Editors: Alain Lawo-Sukam, Regina Marie Mills, AJ Baginski, Ivylove Cudjoe, Alexa Hurtado-Montano, and George Villanueva.
Alain Lawo-Sukam
Dr. Alain Lawo-Sukam is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Africana Studies program in the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at Texas A&M University in College Station. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Hispanic culture as well as courses in Africana studies. His research focuses on Afro-Hispanic Studies. He is a scholar and a writer.
Regina Marie Mills
Regina Marie Mills is an assistant professor of Latinx and US Multiethnic Literature at Texas A&M University. Her first book, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades, will be published by University of Texas Press in June 2024.
AJ Baginski
AJ Baginski is a Southern California to Austin, Texas transplant. They read and write about literature from Northern Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. and organize poetry readings at different venues and institutions.
Ivylove Cudjoe
Ivylove Cudjoe is currently a doctoral student of the Department of Global Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University. She holds a master’s degree in Hispanic Studies from Western Michigan University (WMU) and is interested in teaching practices, film studies, Africana Studies and Latin American literature. She shares a passion for poetry and has a publication of poems with the 12th volume of the WMU graduate student research journal, The Hilltop Review, under the title, “As I go along.”
Alexa Hurtado-Montano
Alexa Hurtado-Montano was born in Cali, Colombia. She is a poet and PhD student in Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University (College Station-Texas). She has a BA in Literature from Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia). She was a Martin Luther King MLK Fellowship Program scholar and she has a diploma in Leadership for Political Incidence at the Universidad Catolica. Through her anthology “Confesiones de Melencó” (2024), her creations are an act of poetic justice and vindicate the body as territory. Also she resigns her daily life as an Afro-Colombian woman with every poetry piece.
George Villanueva
George Villanueva is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is author of the book Promoting Urban Social Justice Through Engaged Communication Scholarship: Reimagining Place and he researches how marginalized communities of color survive the material realities of structural oppression that have been reproduced along the intersectional social identities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.
This call for submissions seeks writing that pushes the limits between the publishable and the personal
How do ancestral landscapes generate a sense of belonging, even when these exist only in memories and images?
Submit your entry by March 15, 2024 (extended deadline)
Submit through e-mail: landscapesbelonging@gmail.com
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Latin@ Literatures is an independent journal currently sponsored by a grant from the Latinx and Hispanic Faculty Association at University of Maryland-Baltimore County. All funding for the Special Issue: Landscapes of Belonging is sponsored by Texas A&M University.
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