In her lecture “Feeling Resonances: Archival Affiliations with Latinx Photography,” Deanna Ledezma examines the emotions and affiliations that surface through engagements with Latinx photographic archives. Informed by critical archival studies, she scrutinizes the social and political consequences of how one relates to marginalized subjects and communities through photography. Grounding these issues in specific projects and publications, Ledezma will discuss her scholarly, creative, and collaborative practices with photographic archives, including formal, familial, and emerging collections.
Deanna Ledezma, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Tejanx scholar, writer, and educator specializing in Latinx Studies, the history and theory of photography, contemporary art, and visual culture. Ledezma earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in 2022. She is the Postdoctoral Research Associate and Program Coordinator for the Inter-University Program for Latino Research/UIC Mellon Fellowship Program (2022–24).
Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns.
Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.