Professor of Hispanic and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Union College
About
Daniel O. Mosquera is currently a professor of Hispanic and Latin American and Caribbean Studies and former director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Union College. He has published on Latin American colonial historiography and transatlantic studies, blackness and popular culture and politics, and film and cultural studies and cultural theory. He has also directed and co-produced two documentaries on Afro Colombian (chocoano) religious practices and popular culture. He is a former member of the editorial board in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and currently serves in the journal’s Advisory Board.
Current Work:
Dr. Mosquera is currently working on a series of translations of XVIII century Mexican indigenous Passion plays and a documentary that explores contemporary enactments of the Passion cycle. He is also pursuing interdisciplinary research on global waste and the human condition, using cinema and various artistic expressions as platforms for analyses, having already published on the connections between trash and revolution.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Race and cultural theory, Latin American and cultural studies, colonial, postcolonial studies
