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Ian Erickson-Kery is a Lecturer on the faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Duke University in December 2024 and is working on a book project about cultural, aesthetic, and architectural responses to environmental racism in urban Mexico and Brazil since the 1960s. 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, the cultural history of Mexico City, and Latinx public art and urbanism in the San Francisco Bay Area, in addition 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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