Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado

Asst Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: jennifer.carocciomaldonado@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., American Studies, Rutgers University-Newark Newark United States

M.A., English, Brooklyn College, CUNY Brooklyn United States

B.A., English, Queens College, CUNY Flushing United States

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Fall 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2023ENG3025Surv American Lit II
Spring 2023ENG3940Topics in Film
Fall 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2022ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2022ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2022ENG4950Advanced Topics in Language, L
Fall 2021ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2021ENG3950Topics in Literature

Books

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. Latinx Graphic Counter Histories: The Narrative Capabilities of Graphic Life Writing. In Progress.

Journal Articles

(2023). “Mixtec Pictography and Immigrant Labor Resistance in the Comic Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight”. The New Americanist, 2(1). 35-55.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2022). “Putting the Black Ink Back into Print: Black Newark/Black New Ark”. New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal , 8(1). 34-49.

Book Chapters

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2023). “Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Literature Classroom”. In Díaz-Basteris, F., & Urcaregui, M. (Eds.), Undisciplining Latinx Comics & Visual Cultures: Pedagogical, Theoretical, and Aesthetic Approaches Rutgers University Press.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2020). “Life Out Loud in the Closet: The Grotesque as Latinx Imagination in Cristy C. Road’s Spit and Passion,”. In Aldama, F. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies (pp. 109-118). Routlege.

Conference Proceedings

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2023). “The Living Dead in Las Americas: Latina Literatures of the Gothic". 5th Biennial U.S. Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2023). “Namor as Mesoamerican Superhero in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.". International Comics Arts Forum.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2022). "BIPOC Mythologies & the Speculative". BIPOC Pop Symposium.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2022). “Graphic Latinx Childhood: Beyond the Black and White Binary as anti-Black Project”.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2022). "Graphic Latinx Childhood: Beyond the Black and White Binary as anti-Black Project".

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2020). “Framing Life: Labor, Language and Politics in Comics". SOL-CON: The Brown, Black, & Indigenous Comics Expo.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2020). “Queer Latinx Joy in Cristy C. Road’s graphic memoir Spit and Passion”.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2020). “Out of the Window and Through the Panels: Re-Membering Feminist Art in the Comic Biography Who is Ana Mendieta?". New Directions in Cuban Studies Conference.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2019). “Latinx Comix: Graphic Memoirs and Comic Biographies as Counter History”. Sõl-Con: The Brown & Black Comix Expo.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2018). “Community Response, Necropolitics and Diasporic Hope in the Comic Biography Ghetto Brothers". Bi-annual Conference.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2018). “Latinx Comix: 21st Century Graphic Narratives as Latinx Cultural Production". Latinx Studies Now.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2018). “Emerging Scholars: Graduate Students In and Beyond Crisis” and “Mixed Race Utopia and Racial Embodiment in Saga". States of Emergence.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2017). “Seeing the Cracks: Women of Color Writing to Resist". Borderlands: A Critical Graduate Symposium.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2017). “Refusing to Pass, Refusing to be Sold: The Myth of La Malinche and Mixed Race Politics in Cherrié Moraga's Loving in the War Years".

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2016). “Transculturation and Feminist Art in Comic biography of Who is Ana Mendieta?". Home/Not Home.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2014). “Graphic T[ext]s: Language and Medium in Ilan Stavans’ Latino USA: A Cartoon History". Latin@ Studies Conference.

Presentations

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, March 3). Work in Progress on the comic biography Who is Ana Mendieta?. Baruch College’s Faculty Research Symposium. Baruch College

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, March 3). “Queer Afro-Latina History Through Comics: Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado in Conversation with Sharon Lee De La Cruz”. Afrolatinidades Symposium. New York, NY: Black and Latino Studies.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, September 3). “Othered Realities: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity”. Feminism in U.S. Contemporary Popular Culture. : PopMeC Feminism.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, February 3). "Out of the Window and Through the Panels: Violence, Trauma and the Grotesque in the Comic Biography Who is Ana Mendieta?". Oxford Comics Network Series. : Oxford University.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, July 3). “Comics, Narrative and Memory". Summer SOL-CON Series. : The Ohio State University.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, April 3). “Three Minute Thesis”. Quebec City, Canada: Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, January 3). “Tengo un Sueño/I Have a Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King and the Latino-American Dream”. Newark, New Jersey: Ahavas Sholom The Jewish Museum of New Jersey.

Reviews

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (1970,January 1). Review of Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics & Graphic Novels. The Journal of Religion & Literature.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024,October 3). “Cocuyos Never Say Die: Review of Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega”. American Book Review.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (1970,January 1). Review of Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature.

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
“Graphic Vignettes of the Civil Rights Movement: History, Memory and Testimonio in Lila Quintero Weaver’s Grapic Memoir Darkroom”PSC-CUNY 5407/01/202306/30/202404/18/20234551Funded - In Progress
Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Faculty Fellowship PublicationUniversity Human Resources, CUNY2023-01-30This University-wide initiative assists full-time untenured CUNY faculty (assistant professors) in the design and execution of writing projects essential to progress toward tenure.

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
The Power of Coalition Building" panel - Black and Latino Studies Dept.PanelistPresent
"Fringe Boricua Filmmaking in NYC" panel - Black and Latino Studies Dept.moderator10/21/2021
"Latino, Latina, Latinx: What's in a Name?" panel - Black and Latino Studies Dept.Panelist9/14/2021

Professional

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
American Studies Association, Students’ CommitteeCommittee MemberNAUnited States3/1/201711/30/2022National
Sage PublicationsReviewer, BookCaliforniaUnited States11/1/202011/30/2020National

Public

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
Latinx Comic Arts FestivalBoard MemberCaliforniaUnited States3/1/20213/31/2022National
Oxford Comics Network SeriesProgram CoordinatorUKUnited Kingdom1/1/20218/31/2021International
Loisaida Inc., CenterProgram CoordinatorNew YorkUnited States3/1/20155/31/2018Local