Adrian Anagnost, Art History, Newcomb Art Department
Adrian Anagnost is an art historian studying histories of place, relationality, and territorialization in the Americas, with a particular focus on Brazil and the U.S. within broader Atlantic World networks. Anagnost is the author of Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil (Yale University Press, 2022).
Rebecca Atencio, Spanish and Portuguese Department
Rebecca Atencio is an associate professor of Brazilian Studies at Tulane University. In 2014, she published the book Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil with the University of Wisconsin Press. She is currently completing a new book on feminisms in contemporary Brazil. In addition, she is co-editor of the academic journal Luso-Brazilian Review, the oldest academic journal focused on the Lusophone world in the United States, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison .
Michael Bromberg, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, Michael Bromberg received a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in linguistics from Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Prior to studying in Colombia, he volunteered with a community development and conservation organization in Saraqiqui, Costa Rica, and worked for a financial services firm in Valparaiso, Chile. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, where his research focuses on improvised poetic performance in the Andean region of Colombia.
Antonio Gómez, Spanish and Portuguese Department
Antonio Gómez’s research interests include narratives of dislocation, especially from Cuba and Argentina, new poetics of documentary in Latin American, and the writing of recent history in a postnational context. He is the author of Escribir el espacio ausente. Exilio y cultura nacional en Díaz, Wajsman y Bolaño (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2013). He teaches courses and seminars in Latin American literature, cinema, and cultural studies.
Laura-Zoë Humphreys, Department of Communication
Laura-Zoë Humphreys is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and affiliated faculty with the Department of Anthropology and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of Fidel between the Lines: Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema (Duke UP, 2019). Fidel between the Lines intervenes in debates on allegory and paranoid/surface reading by demonstrating how paranoid readings shape the on-the-ground circulation and reception of Cuban films, contributing to a paranoid public sphere and limiting the efforts of artists to foster new political imaginaries that exceed binary approaches to socialism. Her current research project is an ethnographic history of analog through digital video and media piracy in Cuba, carried out in collaboration with Daymar Valdés Frigola (research specialist, Cinemateca de Cuba), and Sheyla Pool (documentary director and sound engineer). This research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Louisiana Board of Regents (ATLAS grant). With a focus on Cuba in its transnational geo-political contexts, she has also published on the reception of South Korean popular culture, digital technologies and disinformation, and the bureaucrat comedy film genre in Cuba and the Soviet Union. Her publications can be found in Social Text, Discourse, boundary 2, the International Journal of Popular Culture, Mediapolis, and Cultural Anthropology Fieldsites.
Watufani M. Poe, Department of Communication
Watufani M. Poe is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University. He earned his PhD in Africana Studies from Brown University in 2021. Before joining the faculty at Tulane, he served as a Center for Humanistic Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow at Amherst College from 2021-2022 and as faculty at the University of Pittsburgh from 2022-2023. His manuscript project, “Resisting Fragmentation: The Embodied Politics of Black Queer Worldmaking” is an ethnohistoric analysis of Black LGBTQ+ activism in Brazil and the United States to outline the ways Black LGBTQ people push for freedom across various social and political movement spaces.
Mauro Porto, Department of Communication
Professor Porto is a political communication scholar who studies the linkages between media and democratization, with a focus on Brazil. His research has examined the political dimensions of communication practices and genres, including journalism, telenovelas, political advertising, presidential debates, and social media. His most recent book Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) analyzes the role of media representations in fostering a status panic in the white middle class, which in turn played a key role in the conservative revolt that took place in Brazil between 2013 and 2018.
Zorimar Rivera Montes, English Department, Spanish and Portuguese Department
Zorimar Rivera Montes is the Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University. She teaches Puerto Rican and Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the English and Spanish & Portuguese departments. Her research focuses on Puerto Rican cultural texts under the combined forces of neoliberalism and coloniality, studying the impacts of colonial neoliberalism on aesthetic products. Her interests include Latinx studies, contemporary Latinx literature and popular culture in relation to migration, diaspora, colonialism, labor and late capitalism in popular culture. Her forthcoming book manuscript, Against Resilience: Puerto Rican Culture and Late Capitalism, examines aesthetic refusals to the drive towards production and resilience during the past two decades.
Marilyn G. Miller, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Marilyn G. Miller. Professor Miller’s research interests include discourses of slavery and race, popular culture with a special focus on music and visual culture, inter-American studies and Latin American studies from a comparative perspective. She is the author of Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2004), Port of No Return. Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans (LSU Press, 2021), and Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory (Vanderbilt UP, 2024), as well as the editor of Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice (Duke University Press, 2014).
Walter Romero, Singer
Walter Romero is a poet, translator, professor, and performer specializing in French and Francophone literature, translation studies, and tango. He has taught in the Department of French Literature at the University of Buenos Aires since 1997.
Eric Johns, Guitarist
Eric Johns is an educator, musicologist, archivist, and guitarist. He serves as a member of the academic faculty at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA) and as the Archivist & Curator for the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.