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Juan E. Miranda/ Willy Black

¡Hoy tenemos un show genial! No se lo pierdan, hoy hablamos con la Estudiante de doctorado María Fernanda Díaz Basteris, sobre ella, sus estudios, Latinxs, comics y las posibilidades del mercado laboral para estudiantes. 

En sus propias palabras: 

I am currently finishing my PhD in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures with dual emphases in Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Graphic Narrative Studies at the University of California, Davis. My research is based on extensive field work in Puerto Rico as well as in New York City, which afforded me opportunities to dialogue with important artists such as Rosa Colón and Carla Rodríguez from Soda Pop Comics, Rosaura Rodríguez and Omar Banuchi from Dias Comics, Iván Velez from the Bronx Museum, and art collectives like Taller Boricua and Editorial El Antillano.

I also I study graphic narratives from Mexico, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the US that are instructive in shedding new light on the traumatic conflict that can overcome entire populations after natural catastrophes like earthquakes and hurricanes.

I am also committed to sharing my research with scholars who are studying graphic novels and theorizing about them. I co-founded  “Decolonizing Comics” whose purpose is to bring together students and faculty from multiple universities to think about graphic narrative forms and host workshops with critics and artists working on graphic narrative.

 

I have been invited to participate in The Humanities Action Lab (HAL) as a curator for the “Initiative on Migration, Climate Justice, and Environmental Justice” hosted by Rutgers University-Newark. I work with Puerto Rican students, artists and scholars on how climate change is considered to be a major cause of global migration, with rising sea levels, droughts, floods, and natural disasters forcing communities to seek refuge in new territories.

¡No se lo pierdan! 

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