Please email RMS@Dartmouth.edu for the Zoom ID.

Undergraduate students are especially welcomed.

In this workshop, Dr. Anna Storti and Christine Castro will share with us their impressive research projects ongoing at Dartmouth. Titled "A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal,” Dr. Storti’s presentation will offer an overview of her recently completed dissertation and a preview of her Fall 2020 course “Race & Memory: Feminist and Queer Performances Against Disavowal.” The project argues for the importance of uncovering the violent conditions of racial mixture in Asian America. With a more comprehensive scope, the course will be organized around artists and writers of color who engage the concept of memory as a political act to explore how past histories of domination manifest in the present. Christine Castro’s presentation, “Trajes de Charro and Film Crews: Policing as Spectacle in Rural Latinx Communities,” will analyze a clip from Live PD and the Salinas Police Department's use of a charro suit modified to a police uniform to dissect the ways this rural police force deflects criticism and protests against police brutality by publicly asserting Mexicanidad.

Christine Castro is the César Chávez Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies (LALAS), and a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work traces the intersections of industrial agriculture, police militarization, and incarceration in Salinas Valley, California. She is especially interested in considering rural agricultural spaces as highly surveilled carceral geographies. 

Dr. Anna M. Moncada Storti is the Guarini Dean’s Predoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies. She recently received her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in 2020 she will transition into a postdoctoral fellow with an appointment in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation examines mixed-race Asian American art and performance to show how the contemporary discourse of multiraciality obscures colonial legacies of mass violence, femme uprising, intergenerational trauma, and racial purity. She teaches across gender and sexuality studies, critical mixed-race studies, and Asian American studies, and her writing has appeared in Women & Performance and is forthcoming in the Modern Language Association’s Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities and in the encyclopedia LGBTQ Americans in the U.S. Political System.

Please email RMS@Dartmouth.edu for the Zoom ID.