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Juliana Martinez Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures

Degrees
PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures. University of California, Berkeley


BA in Literature. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Bio
Professor Martínez focuses on the intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America. Her two main areas of research are: representation of historical violence recent cultural production; and gender and sexuality—particularly transgender studies. Her book "" was released in December 2020, and is the winner of the 2021 William M. Leo Grande Award.


Professor Martínez regularly teaches courses on Latin 鶹ý literature, film and history; gender and sexuality; Latin 鶹ý feminisms; narratives of violence (particularly in Colombia and Mexico); and women writers in Latin America.


Within the AU community, Professor Martínez is also part of the advisory board of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program, and a member of the Center for Latin 鶹ý and Latino Studies (CLALS).


Recent publications include the book (loosely translated as Trans-ing knowledge: trans* people’s education in Argentina). Co-edited with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, and published with La Universidad Nacional de La Plata (2018), the book gathers the personal narratives of 33 trans students and teachers as they reflect on the challenges and opportunities of trans-inclusion in 3 different sites of public education in Argentina. The 2019 dossier "Violent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico” was edited in collaboration with for .
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Articles

  • “.”Revista de Estudios Colombianos.55 (2020): 42-49.
  • Martínez, Juliana. "Competing Visions and Contested Spaces in La sirga and Colombia magia salvaje." LIII. March, 2019.
  • Martínez, Juliana. “‘Making audible in the mouth whereof one cannot speak’: Spectral Adoptions in Juan Manuel Echavarría’s Requiem NN.” Journal of Latin 鶹ý Cultural Studies: Travesía. Online First, Feb. 6th, 2019:
  • Martínez, Juliana. “Beyond the Ventriloquism of Diversity, How Mujer T is Transing Inclusion in Bogotá.” Special Issue: Contested Terrains: Women of Color and Third World Women, Feminisms, and Geopolitics. Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Vol. 32, Issue 3 (Summer 2017): 679-695.
  • Martínez, Juliana. “Dressed Like a Man? Of Language, Bodies and Monsters in the Trial of Enrique/Enriqueta Favez and its Contemporary Accounts.” Journal of the History of Sexuality. 26, 2 (May 2017): 188-206.
  • Martínez, Juliana. 2014. “‘Monstruosa caricia’, espectralidad, (auto)erotismo y resistencia en Señor que no conoce la luna.” Interdisciplina, Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma de México. Vol. 2, núm. 3 (2014): 91-108.

Co-authored articles

  • Martínez, Juliana and Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador. “Travar el saber: travesti-centred knowledge-making and education.” Bulletin of Latin 鶹ý Research. 40:5 (2021): 665–678.
  • Chaux, Enrique; León, Manuela; Martínez, Juliana; and Cuellar, Lina. “Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean.”Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. January 22, 2021. Doi:
  • Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador, and Martínez, Juliana.2018. “Latinx thoughts: Latinidad with an X.” Latino Studies. October, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp 384–395.
  • Cornejo, Giancarlo; Martínez, Juliana; Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador.2018. “LGBT studies without LGBT studies: mapping alternative pathways in Perú and Colombia.” Journal of Homosexuality. Special issue: “25 years on: The state and continuing development of LGBTQ Studies programs.”Online First:

Edited Volumes

Books

  • Martínez, Juliana and Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador. Eds. “Travar el saber, experiencias trans/travestis de educación en Argentina”. Universidad de la Plata, Argentina. 2018. Available at:

Especial Editions – Peer Reviewed Journals:

  • Martínez, Juliana; Suárez Rodríguez, Helena; and Gil Hernández, Franklin. Eds. “Revista de Estudios Colombianos. 58:2 (2021).
  • Aristizábal Juanita and Martínez Juliana. Eds. “Violent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico.”Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 53:1 (2019).

Book chapters

  • Martínez, Juliana. 2021. ““Siempre agua”, el diluirse del sujeto, el tiempo y la violencia en la obra de Tomás González.” InEl manglar de la memoria. Ensayos críticos sobre la obra de Tomás González, edited by Claudia Montilla and Norman Valencia. Universidad de Los Andes Press: Bogotá, Colombia, 411-436. Best Book Compilation Award. Asociación de Colombianistas, 2021.
  • Martínez, Juliana. 2017. “’La mirada sin perspectiva de la niebla’, fantología y desaparición en En el lejero.” In Evelio Rosero y lo ciclos de la creación literaria. Edited by Felipe Gómez and María del Carmen Saldarriaga. Opera Eximia Collection, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana University Press, Bogotá, Colombia, 37-56.
  • Martínez, Juliana. 2015. “Fog Instead of Land, Spectral Topographies of Disappearance in Colombia’s Recent Literature and Film.” In Espectros, Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives. Edited by Alberto Ribas-Casayas and Amanda L. Petersen.2016. Bucknell University Press: Lewisburg, 117-131.
  • Martínez, Juliana. 2014. “Lo que no se nombra no existe. Regulación, medios de comunicación y género en Colombia.” In Políticas públicas de comunicación y género en Latino América: un camino por recorrer. Edited by Sandra Chaher. Comunicación para la Igualdad Ediciones y Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: Buenos Aires, 43-59.

Public Scholarship and Media Appearances

  • 2021 “Latinx Characters in Hightown’s Second Season: “A Much-Needed Dose of Context and Complexity.”” Ms. Magazine

  • 2021 “Lenguaje inclusivo para todas, todos y todes.” Caracol Radio, Colombia. Abril 18, 2021.

  • 2020 “De la hetero-normatividad al desarrollo incluyente” ¿Y si hablamos de igualdad? Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, BID.

  • 2020 “Spanish Language: Unlikely Battleground for Gender Inclusion” AULA Blog. Center for Latin 鶹ý and Latino Studies. 鶹ý.

  • 2018. “Cultural Appropriation & Holidays: When Does Celebrating Become Stereotyping?” The Kojo Nnambdi Show. May 2, 2018.

  • 2017.“We Need to Talk About the Shifting Meaning of Diversity.” Diverse Issues in Higher Education
  • 2017. “13 Reasons Why,Stop Telling Young Women True Love Will Save Them.” HuffingtonPost
  • 2016. “J-Lo's narco drama needs to dig deep to avoid Colombian cocaine stereotypes” The Guardian