![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also Co-Director of the Bronx Latino History Project, a joint project with the Bronx County Historical Society. At Lehman College, Melissa serves as Director of the English Honors Program, Faculty Advisor to Obscura, the Literary and Arts Magazine of Lehman College, a Senator of the CUNY Faculty Senate. Her second book of poetry, Chingona Rules was released with Finishing Line Press in September 2021 and was a Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award, International Latino Book Awards (2022). Her co-edited volume, Scholars in COVID Times is forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 2023. Melissa is the author of the poetry collection Coatlicue Eats the Apple, editor of the anthology, ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Poets, co-editor of La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades and co-author of the novel, Pure Bronx.Her most recent book project, with Rutgers University Press’ new Global Race and Media series, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, examines the creative worlds and cultural productions of Mexican migrants in New York City within the context of a system of racial capitalism that marginalizes Mexican migrants. She also holds an appointment at the CUNY Graduate Center Phd Program in English. Melissa Castillo Planas is an Associate Professor of English at Lehman College specializing in Latinx Literature and Culture. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |