Isabel Martinez’s CROSSING DIGITAL FRONTERAS with Lissette Acosta Corniel and Cassie Tanks

Word Up welcomes Dr. Isabel Martinez to discuss her new co-edited book Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities on the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-serving institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms. In conversation with Martinez will be authors Lissette Acosta Corniel and Cassie Tanks. 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Crossing Digital Fronteras is about liberatory possibilities and digital technologies in the classroom. The book centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illustrate the ways college faculty and Latinx students harness digital tools to engage in “messy” yet essential active learning and knowledge production in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Latinx Studies courses. With increasing Latinx student enrollment and a growing need for the humanities in our complex world, it is essential that HSIs and instructors integrate twenty-first-century tools into their teaching practices to truly “serve” Latinx students and communities. This book definitively inserts Latinx Digital Humanities into broader conversations about best practices at HSIs, on the one hand, and digital humanities and social justice, on the other. Most importantly, it provides practical examples of innovative, rehumanizing digital pedagogies that give students the liberatory learning they deserve.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Isabel Martinez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies at Northeastern University and is the Director of the Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies program. Her primary line of inquiry focuses on unaccompanied immigrant youths primarily from Mexico and Central America and the ways that they experience and understand their transitions to adulthood in New York City and more recently, New Bedford, Massachusetts. This research resulted in the groundbreaking monograph, Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Workers and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility (Rutgers U 2019), as well as community-based work to support immigrant youths’ pursuits of green cards including reports and programming. A strong proponent of the use of technologies in Hispanic-Serving Institution classrooms, she is also the co-editor of Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities. She is currently working on a manuscript that documents a history of Latinx comedy, stand-up and sketch, in New York City. 

ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTORS 

Lissette Acosta Corniel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race and Ethnic Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, in New York City. Acosta Corniel’s research examines gender-based violence, slavery, and resistance in colonial Santo Domingo during the XVI-XVIII centuries. She is the editor of Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico, SUNY Press. She is working on her book manuscript about gender-based violence, femicide, and women’s autonomy in colonial Santo Domingo tentatively titled Bad Women, Contested Freedoms: Feminist Behavior in Sixteenth Century Hispaniola.

Cassie Tanks is an archivist, public and digital humanist, historian, and first generation student originally from San Diego, California. She is pursuing a PhD in World History at Northeastern University, earned an M.A. in Public History, achieved an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s in History from San Diego State University after earning an AA at San Diego Mesa Community College. Tanks’ work focuses on spatial and material histories of borderlands, imperialism and decolonization, and U.S. foreign policy through spatial, community archival, and transnational liberation lenses.

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