Amy Sara Carroll

Amy Sara Carroll received an AB in Anthropology and Creative Writing (Poetry) from Princeton University (1990), an MA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1993), an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995), and a PhD in Literature from Duke University (2004). At Duke she also received certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women’s Studies. Dr. Carroll was a 2005-2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Studies at Northwestern University; a Summer 2006 recipient of a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship; a 2011 NEH Summer Seminar participant; the Summer 2015 Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi; a 2017-2018 Fellow in Cornell’s Society for the Humanities and a 2018-2019 Fellow in the University of Texas at Austin’s Latino Research Initiative.

Current Work:

Her books include SECESSION (2012); FANNIE + FREDDIE/ The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography (2013), chosen by Claudia Rankine for Fordham University’s 2012 Poets Out Loud Prize; and REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era (2017), which received honorable mentions for the 2017 Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, the 2018 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities, and the 2019 Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award. Since 2008, she has been a member of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, coproducing the Transborder Immigrant Tool. She coauthored with other members of EDT 2.0 several plays and [({ })] The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto (2014). Since Summer 2010, Dr. Carroll has participated in Mexico City’s alternative arts space SOMA. Currently she is working on three projects: a critical monograph on Mexican film, a coauthored play, and a collection of poetry.

Research Area Keyword(s):

Latin/x American literature; art; cinema; border studies; gender and sexuality studies; creative writing