Guisela Latorre

Guisela Latorre

Guisela Latorre

Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

latorre.13@osu.edu

614-247-7720

286 University Hall
230 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Chicana and Latina feminism
  • Chicanx and Latin American art and visual culture
  • Chicanx and Latin American muralism and graffiti

Education

  • M.A., Art History, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995
  • B.S., Fine Arts, University of Southern Indiana, Indiana, 1993
  • Ph.D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 2003

Guisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latinx and Latin American art with a special emphasis on Chicana/Latina feminism. She is the author of Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (2019) and Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (2008). In addition, she was co-curator and co-author of the exhibition/book ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege (2017). Her other publications include “The Art of Disruption: Chicana/o Art’s Politicized Strategies for Aesthetic Innovation” in The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies (2018) and “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism” in Street Art of Resistance (2017). She is currently working on an anthology on the arts collective Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.