Teresa Longo

In progress: a book on Visible Dissent

Teresa Longo — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:49:31 +0000

Currently, I am writing a book called Visible Dissent. It explores the role several small publishing houses, one international newspaper, a prominent filmmaker and a few international poetry festivals play in making dissent public. The first page “teaser” is posted here: see the comments.

Student research on-site in Morelia

Teresa Longo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:06:35 +0000

What do Loteria cards have to do with immigration? What can an ice cream shop tell us about the culture, economy and history of the city? Is there a connection between class structure and the buying and selling of medicine? Students participating in the 2008 Morelia program investigated these and other questions. Erin Truitt, Wayne Pearson and Amanda Scott started working on these topics in Teresa Longo’s Issues in Mexican Culture class. The topics emerged as part of larger discussions about power dynamics between Mexico and the United States, and within Mexico. Amanda, Wayne, Erin and others conducted their on-site research in Morelia under the direction of Sheila Avellanet. Abstracts of their projects are posted here as comments:

Scott, Amanda. ”La Llorona, la loteria y la Virgen de Guadalupe: Transferencias y diferencias en la cultura mexicana y la cultura chicana.”

Pearson, Wayne. “El exito simbolico de La paleteria michoacana.”

Truitt, Erin. “Medicine, Culture and Class” (forthcoming).

Faculty and student poetry projects

Teresa Longo — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:19:05 +0000

What does it mean to keep faith with poetry, to link art with activism? What is social justice? What is poetic justice? How are these issues addressed locally in Virginia, Washington, Willimantic, Medellin, Isla Negra, Chicago and along the US Mexico border? What role does globalization play? These are the questions Hispanic Studies faculty and students are answering in their research and their poetry. Some of our work is posted here. Click on comments to read it.

The comments:

Longo, Teresa . ”A Poet’s Place … from Macchu Picchu to a Starbuck’s Parking Lot.”

Goergen, Juana and Silvia Tandeciarz. “Reconquista / Reconquest.”

Ressler, Robert. “Untitled.”

Corcoran, Kristen. “Machu Picchu is Closed Today.”

Russell, Mary. “why I should have listened to mom and majored in computer science.”

Urban Images: DF, Botoga, New York

Teresa Longo — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:03:08 +0000

What is the connection between urban space and political mobilization? What role do the youth of a city play in the negotiation of urban identity? What role is played by public intellectuals, journalists, photographers and novelists? These are questions the faculty and the students in Hispanic Studies 390/Literary and Cultural Studies 401 are answering in their Fall 2008 class discussions and their research projects. See the comments.

I. The 1968 student movement in Mexico, forty years later:

Longo, Teresa. “Blame it on the Mini Skirt: Fashion, Language and Revolution in Mexico.”

Rizzo, Sam. “El fracaso triste de la memoria: la lucha libre y el fantasma en Amorosos fantasmas.”

Griffin, Lisa. “Urban Space as a Battleground for National Identity.”

Polo, Flavia. “La respuesta de los intelectuales a la masacre de Tlatelolco.”