María Deguzmán Email & Phone Number

María DeGuzmán is Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature and the Founding Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of three books: _Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire_ ( University of Minnesota Press, August 2005); _Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night_ (University of Indiana Press, June 2012); and _Understanding John Rechy_ (University of South Carolina Press, Sept. 2019). She has published numerous articles on Latina/o literature. Furthermore, she researches, writes about, and offers courses on literature and photographic practices. She is a conceptual photographer who produces photo-text work as Camera Query, both solo and in collaboration with colleagues and friends. As both Camera Query and previously as part of SPIR: Conceptual Photography, she has shown in the Carrack Gallery of Modern Art, Pleiades Gallery, and the Golden Belt Art Studios in Durham, North Carolina, 523 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough, North Carolina, the Joyner Library at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, Salisbury University Art Gallery in Salisbury, Maryland, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol, England, Pulse Art Gallery in New York City, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA Gallery) in Buffalo, New York, and El Progreso Gallery in Madrid, Spain.Specialties: Latina/o literature and visual culture, environmental humanities, teaching, research, fund-raising for higher education and the arts, curricular programming, conceptual photographer, and electronic music composer. Interested in relations between image, music, text; information theory and the arts. To hear samples of DeGuzmán's music, go to:https://soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman

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  Harvard University

  English & American Literature