Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado

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Co-convener Trinity Term 2021 (Comics Network)
j.caroccio@rutgers.edu

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado is scholar, writer, and poet from Queens, NY. She has a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. Her research interests include Latinx culture & literature, U.S. cultural production, graphic novels, and women of color feminist theories. Her current book project is the first study of Latinx graphic life stories. She argues that a comparative examination of these graphic narratives reveals how they contest dominant histories that either erase U.S. Latinx communities from social movements or characterize them as passive participants of history. Currently, she has an essay on queer Cuban girlhood in the graphic memoir Spit and Passion in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies (Routledge 2020). You can read more about her work at www.jennifercaroccio.com