Faculty
Vallerie Matos
BS, New York University. MA, Hunter College. MPhil, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Special interests include Afro-diasporic and Latinx literature, epistemologies, and archives, Sound Studies, spirituality, and glossolalia. Author of forthcoming article, A Mad Diaspora: Sonic Archives of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Journal of Historical Geographies, "Black Historical Geographies: Querying the Archive," 2027). SLC, 2026–
Undergraduate Courses 2026-2027
Literature
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Open, Seminar—Spring
LITR 3006
Innovation has always been at the center of Black and Latinx literary traditions. They are often a kaleidoscope of the written word, orality, musicality, symbols, and even forms of “unsaying.” This course will ask us to stand at the intersection of Black and Latinx literary, sonic, and visual culture. We will begin by interrogating what defines a text, what it means to read, to listen, and what we can learn when those practices converge. We will engage with novels, short stories, poetry, theoretical scholarship, essays, music albums, DJ sets, film, and sculpture. Some of the Black and Latinx writers and artists we will study may include James Baldwin, M. NourbeSe Philip, Pedro Pietri, Toni Morrison, Martín Espada, Rita Indiana, Kara Walker, DJ Lynée Denise, Bad Bunny, and others.
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Open, Seminar—Fall
LITR 3006
Innovation has always been at the center of Black and Latinx literary traditions. They are often a kaleidoscope of the written word, orality, musicality, symbols, and even forms of “unsaying.” This course will ask us to stand at the intersection of Black and Latinx literary, sonic, and visual culture. We will begin by interrogating what defines a text, what it means to read, to listen, and what we can learn when those practices converge. We will engage with novels, short stories, poetry, theoretical scholarship, essays, music albums, DJ sets, film, and sculpture. Some of the Black and Latinx writers and artists we will study may include James Baldwin, M. NourbeSe Philip, Pedro Pietri, Toni Morrison, Martín Espada, Rita Indiana, Kara Walker, DJ Lynée Denise, Bad Bunny, and others.
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