Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado

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

Books

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

Journal Articles

(2025). The Body Draws the Score: Queer Temporalities and Somatic Experience in Latinx Graphic Narratives. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies,

(2025). Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?. In Progress.

(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. (2025). “Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Literature Classroom”. In Díaz-Basteris, F., & Urcaregui, M. (Eds.), Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative 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). “Namor as Mesoamerican Superhero in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.". International Comics Arts Forum.

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. (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. (2022). "BIPOC Mythologies & the Speculative". BIPOC Pop Symposium.

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

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). “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). “Emerging Scholars: Graduate Students In and Beyond Crisis” and “Mixed Race Utopia and Racial Embodiment in Saga". States of Emergence.

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. (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 15). 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 15). “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 15). “Othered Realities: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity”. Feminism in U.S. Contemporary Popular Culture. : PopMeC Feminism.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, February 15). "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 15). “Comics, Narrative and Memory". Summer SOL-CON Series. : The Ohio State University.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, April 15). “Three Minute Thesis”. Quebec City, Canada: Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024, January 15). “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. Duke University.

Caroccio Maldonado, J. B. (2024,October 15). “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.

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