Ibis Sierra Audivert Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies | Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

I specialize in 20th-and-21st-century Latin America literature and visual culture with a focus on questions of subjectivity, gender and sexuality, community, and displacement. My teaching and research examine literature and different type of Media from a transnational and transatlantic lens while bringing attention to the intellectual and affective (net)work of queer people, persons of color, and activists.

My doctoral project Desplazamientos Culturales: Genealogías Intelectuales en el Neo-barroco Cuir Latinoamericano (1950-1990), proposes a genealogy of queer discourses by examining the trope of displacement though the intellectual and aesthetic crossings of the Latin American neo-baroque and French poststructuralism. Through this genealogy, I offer a comparative study of visual and literary texts from the Hispanic Caribbean, Europe, and South America by addressing questions of body politics, cultural theory, and migrations.

I have taught from basic to intermediate courses of Spanish and upper-division courses such as Introducción a la Literatura Hispánica (SPAN 253) and Gramática Avanzada y Composición (SPAN 300). As a funded participant of the Redesigning Modernities workshop (2020), I contributed to discussions on the global humanities and designing educational materials about migrations and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Publications

• Brune, K., Berman, J. P., Gsoels-Lorensen, J., Higgins, M., Sierra Audivert, I., Truglio, M., & Rivera, A. (2023). “Representing Past Futures: Approaches to Reading Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer Today”. Comparative Literature Studies, 60(3), 578-605.

• “Voice, Gaze, and Community in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano.” Journal of Haitian Studies 27, no. 1 (2021): 86–110.

• “La pared de las palabras” (2020). A Cuban Cinema Companion. Rowman and Littlefield.