Ian Erickson-Kery
Ian Erickson-Kery is a Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, where his teaching interests include Spanish language, environmental humanities, visual culture, and urban studies. Prior to ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, he taught courses in Spanish and Portuguese language and Mexican cultural history at Duke University. He will defend his PhD dissertation, “Contested Territories: The Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Design in Mexico and Brazil, 1963-88” in November 2024 at Duke, and is revising the project into a book-length manuscript on the interfaces of cultural forms (writing, film, visual art, and architecture), embodied political struggle, and the urban infrastructures of carbon extraction and circulation in late-20th century Latin America. His peer-reviewed research has been published in Cine Documental and has been supported by grants from the Fulbright-García Robles program and the U.S. Department of Education, among other funders. A teacher-scholar dedicated to pedagogical innovation and mentoring, he has developed models for immersive digital and lab-based humanities learning through the Bass and Mellon Humanities Unbounded fellowship programs.
Research Interests:
- Latin American Cultural Studies
- Film and Visual Culture Studies
- Architecture and Urbanism
- Environmental Humanities
- Theories of Race and Embodiment in Mexico and Brazil
- SPAN 2, 3: Introduction to Spanish and Spanish-Speaking Cultures II, III
- Tierras en Lucha: Environmental Cultures of Latin America, Latin American and Latinx Artists in the Bay Area
- “Video nas aldeias y los terrenos de conflicto indígena en Brasil.” [“Video nas aldeias and the Terrain of Indigenous Conflict in Brazil.”] Cine Documental no. 20 (Aug. 2019): 38-67
- “Tristes sonhos, ou, o inconciente político da pandemia.” [“Sad Dreams, or, the Political Unconcious of the Panemic.”] Arte e Inovação em Tempos de Pandemia, ed. Rodolfo Ward (Brasília: CEAM/Universidade de Brasília, 2022): 34-41.