Spring 2018 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, English
Joseph Miranda is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Cornell University. He earned his B.A. in English from George Washington University in Washington, DC. His work focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latinx literature and culture and queer studies. With broader interests in questions of how space constructs and orients identity, his work traverses different theoretical, genre, and physical geographies, to ask what does a decolonial, queer, and Latinx form look like in the novel, film, comics, and performance? As a Mellon fellow, Miranda is hoping to engage with representations of the built environment to question how we conceive of public space as a place of possibility in a moment where the city is being straightened and whitened out due to neoliberal policies that erase and cordon off queer and people of color. Prior to Cornell, Miranda taught high school English in Newark, New Jersey, and was a Teach for America corps member.