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Gale Memorial Lecture: Robb Hernandez
November 10, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Robb Hernández, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of English, Fordham University
Presentation: “Alien Skins: Cosmic Couture for a New Millennium”
As an American Studies scholar, Robb Hernández’s approach to Latinx literature is interdisciplinary combining literary studies with visual culture, contemporary art history, performance studies, and museum/exhibition research.
He is the author of Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde (NYU Press, 2019), which catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s.
In 2017, he co-curated Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, the first major exhibition to examine three decades of Latinx and Latin American science fiction artistic practices.
He is also the author of VIVA Records 1970–2000: Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles (2013) and The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta—Cyclona Collection, 1962–2002 (2009), published in the “Chicano Archives” series from the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press.
His related articles on a nexus of trans and queer Latinx artists in the U.S. and Latin America have appeared in American Art Journal, ASAP/Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, MELUS, Radical History Review, and TSQ, among other books and anthologies.
He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including, the Getty Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hellman Foundation, National Association of Chicana/o Studies, Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, College Art Association, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation.