Dr. Renee Hudson

Dr. Renee Hudson

Assistant Professor
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of English
Office Location: Smith Hall 04
Education:
Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Los Angeles, Master of Arts
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.

Biography

Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas argues that Latinx revolutionary horizons are a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution to theorize the limits of liberation in the present and point toward more liberatory futures. I pair nineteenth-century authors, who reflect the Latin American revolutions of the nineteen-century, with contemporary Latinx authors to historicize contemporary Latinx literature and resistance. In doing so, I illuminate how the confluence of Spanish colonization and U.S. occupation led to the creation of unique genres capable of apprehending the unique historical circumstances of the Americas: the captivity narrative, the guerrilla conversion narrative, the Latinx dictator novel, testimonio, and magical realism. By focusing on colonization over continent, I trace transnational connections that defy literary studies models and illuminate networks of affiliation. In thinking transhistorically, I uncover similar preoccupations about revolution and liberation that manifest on the level of genre and write against genre studies’ tendency toward deracination and reorient literary analyses of revolution towards a consideration of aesthetic form. 


Articles 


Book Chapters

  • “Racing Latinidad,” Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature, ed. John Ernest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming) 
  • “Brown Modernism from María Cristina Mena to Gloria Anzaldúa,” Latinx Literary Modernities, 1898-1992 (Latinx Literature in Transition Vol. 2), eds. Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming) 

Editorial Work 

  • Cluster Editor, “The Futures of Latinx Speculative Fictions,” ASAP/J, December 2019. 

Book Reviews


Other

  • Hemispheric Studies.” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. Ed. Eugene O’Brien. New York: Oxford University Press. January 2018. 

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

"Betraying Whiteness: On Lucas de Lima's 'Tropical Sacrifice," Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2023
"Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s adjacent islands," Brooklyn Rail, October 2023.
"Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt," Brooklyn Rail, December 2023
“‘Our energy is the epilogue of empires’: On Angel Dominguez’s Desgraciado,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2022.
“Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica and the Not Yet of Latinidad,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September, 2022.