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BOARD MEMBERS

Maria Fernanda Díaz-Basteris

Ohio State University


Dr. Díaz Basteris is an Assistant Professor of Latinx New Media and Ethnic Studies at Ohio State University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who has dedicated her research and teaching practice to understanding U.S. Caribbean/Latinx cultural forms of resistance to displacement, coloniality, and racial capitalism through literature, popular art, and graphic narratives from the mid-20th to 21st centuries. Her current research is looking at visual representations of topics, such as Femicide in Puerto Rico, the undocumented American life experience, the social-political crisis of disasters’ aftermath, and the communal digital storytelling of forced displacement. Her teaching experience is supplemented by presentations and public lectures at national and international venues. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultures with a dual emphasis in Latinx and Caribbean Visual Cultures from the University of California, Davis in 2019.

 

Caribbean independent comics and visual products have fundamentally shaped my own sense of belonging, my ways of seeing and reading, and my belief in the strategies for community building, cultural work, and the political possibilities of grassroot movements.

Tropical comics, as I called them, have offered to me and my students a multi-modal reading experience that traditional narratives, such as print-published novels, essays, or short stories would not automatically provide.


(Art by  Amber Padilla)

C-S Publications

Edited Book

2023 In Press. Undisciplining Latinx Comics & Visual Culture: Pedagogical, Analytic, and Aesthetic Approaches. Co-Editor Maite Urcaregui. Rutgers University Press.

 

Book Chapter

2023  In Press. “Love and Rockets Books as pedagogical tools to critically analyze immigration in California” in Teaching Los Bros Hernandez: Snapshots edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and William A. Nericcio. San Diego State University Press.

 

Journal Articles

2023  In Press. “TODAS contra el feminicidio” Femicide and Gender-based Violence ¡Vivas nos queremos! The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora. Special Issue of Centro Journal.

 

2022 “Commentary on ‘After Maria’ by Gemma Sou and John Cei Douglas.” Family and Conflict in Graphic Narratives. Studies in Comics, Vol. 12, number 1, pp. 129–35, https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00055_3 

 

2020 "Traumatic Displacement of Puerto Rican Digital Graphic Narratives" (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989575.2020.1741188?journalCode=raut20) Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in Graphic Life Narratives. A|B Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.35, 2020.


2019   "Webcomics, huracanes y colonialismo en Puerto Rico" (https://alternativas.osu.edu/es/issues/autumnspring-9-2018-19/visual-culture6/diaz-basteris.html) Alter/nativas. Revista de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos Spring 2019, 9. 

Into C-S

Decolonizing Comics (UC Davis, 2017 - 2019)


Memberships:

Comics Studies Society 

Modern Languages Association (The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives)

International Comparative Literature Association (Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative)

Billy Ireland’s Library and Cartoon Museum Faculty Advisory Committee. Ohio State University. (Starting August 2023)

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