María DeGuzmán

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

deguzman@email.unc.edu

B.A. Brown University, 1986 (American Literature and hispanic Studies)
M.A. Harvard University, 1988
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997

Research Interests

María DeGuzmán is Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of the book Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and of the forthcoming book Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (Indiana University Press, Spring 2012).

She has published numerous articles on Latina/o cultural production. Furthermore, she researches, writes about, and offers courses on the relationship between literature and various kinds of photographic practice. In addition to being a professor, she is a conceptual photographer who produces photos and photo-text work, both solo and in collaboration with colleagues and friends. She has published essays and photo-stories involving her photography in journals such as Art Journal (of the College Art Association), Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Word & Image Interactions, andMandorla: Nueva Escritura de las Américas/New Writing from the Americas, to cite a few. Images of hers have been chosen as the cover art for books by Cuban American writer Cristina García and the poet Glenn Sheldon and for books by scholars in various fields. As both Camera Query and previously as part of SPIR: Conceptual Photography, she has shown in the Golden Belt Art Studios in Durham, North Carolina, 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.