Marta Caminero-Santangelo

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Name
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Bio
Marta Caminero-Santangelo is a University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Kansas. Her research and teaching focuses on 20th and 21st century U.S. Latino/a/x literary studies. Her books include Documenting the Undocumented: Latina/o Narrative and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper (2016), On Latinidad: US Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity (2007), and The Madwoman Can’t Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subver­sive (1998). She is the incoming editor of the journal Latino Studies and is currently working on a book about Latino/a/x literature of the Heartland. She earned a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. She is a child of Cuban immigrants.
Mentee
ELISEO JACOB
Affiliation
University of Kansas
Position
Professor and Chair of the English Department

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