Ian Erickson-Kery is a Lecturer in Spanish at Santa Clara University and Ph.D Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University, where he will defend his dissertation in November 2024. His project, titled Contested Territories: The Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Design in Mexico and Brazil, 1963-88, studies cultural responses to environmental racism, with a focus on large-scale infrastructure projects. His peer-reviewed research is published or forthcoming in Cine Documental and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, and has been supported by grants from the Fulbright-García Robles program and the U.S. Department of Education, among other funders. He has designed and taught courses on Latin American environmental aesthetics, Mexican cultural history, and Latinx public art and urbanism in the San Francisco Bay Area, in addition to introductions to Spanish and Portuguese language. 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.
A more detailed synopsis of his research can be found here, and his teaching philosophy can be found here.
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