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Penn IUR is affiliated with more than 200 experts in the field of urbanism. Its Faculty Fellows program identifies faculty at the University of Pennsylvania with a demonstrated interest in urban research; the Penn IUR Scholars program identifies urban scholars outside of Penn; and the Penn IUR Fellows program identifies expert urban practitioners. Together, these programs foster a community of scholars and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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Faculty Fellow

Jennifer Ponce de León

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Assistant Professor of English

About

Jennifer Ponce de León is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on cultural production and antisystemic movements in the Americas since the 1960s. She works across studies of contemporary visual arts, literature, and performance; transnational Latinx and Latin American studies; Marxist aesthetics; and social theory, including anticolonial and postcolonial thought. She is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS), affiliated faculty in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Cinema Studies, a member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, and a Faculty Fellow at Lauder College House.

Dr. Ponce de León is Associate Director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique, which holds an intensive summer research program at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris every summer, as well as annual spring symposia at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is Co-Editor of the book series Reinventing Critical Theory at Rowman & Littlefield International. She is also an independent curator. Most recently, she curated the exhibition and film series Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures for the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. She was a 2018-2019 Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected Publications

“Through an Anticolonial Looking Glass: On Restitution, Indigenismo, and Zapatista Solidarity in Raiders of the Lost Crown” in American Quarterly (March 2018)

“How to See Violence: Artistic Activism & the Radicalization of Human Rights” in ASAP/Journal (May 2018)

“On the Zapatistas’ Little School of Freedom (A Student’s Notes)” in Dancing with the Zapatistas (Duke U. Press, 2015)

Voices, Variations, and Deviations: From the LACE Archive of Southern California Performance Art” in Live Art in LA, 1970-1983 (Routledge, 2012)

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