Degree: Began PhD program in 2021
Concentration: Global Literature and Screen Studies
Dissertation Director: Carol Fadda

Johanna Bermudez (she/her) is a PhD student who is primarily interested in visual representations of Latinx identities and their political, transregional, and transhistorical implications. She explores how racialized identities are constructed and negotiated on screen, how national histories are rewritten and/or occluded using tropes of minoritized communities, and how these understandings of race, ethnicity, and nation travel across borders. Specifically, her dissertation engages films that forge imaginaries of Mexicanidad and calls attention to the processes by which Mexico defines itself aesthetically post-Revolution in relation to its Indigenous and Afro-Mexican populations.
Johanna is also a Research Associate with the Program of Latin America and the Caribbean and has taught classes such as Introduction to Latinx Literature and Ethnicity & Literature. This Fall she will be teaching WGS 101: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies.

• MA in English Literature, Binghamton University
• BA in English Rhetoric, Binghamton University

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Women's and Gender Studies

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean