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

Johanna Bermudez (she/her) is a PhD student whose research examines visual representations of Latinx identities, focusing on how race, nation, and belonging are shaped through film and media. Her work explores how racialized identities are constructed on screen via popular tropes, how national histories are revised or obscured through depictions of minoritized communities in service of empire, and how concepts of race, ethnicity, and nation circulate across borders. Her dissertation focuses on films that construct imaginaries of Mexicanidad, highlighting how post-Revolutionary Mexico defines itself aesthetically in relation to its Indigenous and Afro-Mexican populations.
Johanna is a Research Associate with the Program of Latin America and the Caribbean. She has taught courses including Introduction to Latinx Literature, Ethnicity & Literature, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, and Global Feminisms. This fall, she will serve as a Graduate Assistant for the Black/Arab Relationalities Initiative.

• MPhil in English, Syracuse University
• 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