Meet the New Editorial Team

Guisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary US Latina/o and Latin American art with a special emphasis on gender and women artists. Her first book, titled Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (University of Texas Press, 2008), explored the recurrence of indigenist motifs in Chicana/o community murals from the 1970s to the turn of the millennium. Her other publications include "Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou's Performance and Multimedia Artwork," in the American Studies Journal (2012); "New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process," in Image and Narrative (2010); and "Icons of Love and Devotion: Alma López's Art," in Feminist Studies (Spring Summer 2008). Latorre is currently working on a second book project on the graffiti and mural movement in Chile during the post-dictatorship era. She teaches classes on Latina/Chicana feminism, visual culture, and Latina/o art.

Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Editor

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a modern US historian who specializes in Asian American studies; immigration; comparative racialization; and women's, gender, and sexuality history. Her first book, Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005), is a biography of Margaret Jessie Chung (1889-1959), the first American-born Chinese female physician. This book uses Chung's professional, personal, and political life to explore the shifting social norms of race, gender, and sexuality from the late Victorian era to the early Cold War period in US society. Wu's second book, titled Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Viet Nam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013), is part of a series on the United States and the world, edited by Mark Bradley, David Engerman, and Paul Kramer. This work focuses on the international travels of American antiwar activists during the US War in Viet Nam and how these encounters with Asian culture, politics, and people shaped the radical imaginary of US activists of varying racial, gender, and sexual identifications. Wu is starting a new book project, a political biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002), the first woman of color congressional representative and the coauthor of Title ix. This work seeks to examine Mink's political career for insight into the changing nature of American citizenship and the evolution of political liberalism during the second half of the twentieth century.

Emily Arendt, Editorial Assistant

Emily Arendt is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at The Ohio State University. Her dissertation, tentatively titled "Affairs of State, Affairs of Home: Paternalism in Empire, Republic, and Family," looks at the relationship between political and family governance from roughly the American Revolution through the American Civil War. Emily is examining underutilized print sources, such as almanacs, to interrogate nonelite ideas relating to control and authority. She has studied at the University of Wyoming, receiving a BA and an MA in history, with a graduate minor in women's studies. In Wyoming Emily served as editorial assistant for the peer-reviewed history journal Annals of Wyoming.

Ally Day, Editorial Assistant

Ally Day is PhD candidate in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Disability Studies. Working at the intersections of disability theory, autobiographical theory, black feminist thought, and social contract theory, Ally is analyzing the narratives of women living with HIV and AIDS. She has a forthcoming article in a/b: Journal of Autobiography, entitled "Embodied Triumph and Political Mobilization: Reading Marvelyn Brown's The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive." She has also published scholarly work on representations of women with mental illness; her most recent article, "Toward a Feminist Reading of the Disability Memoir: The Critical Necessity for Intertextuality in Marya Hornbacher's Wasted and Madness," appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly (2011). Ally completed a MA degree in gender and cultural studies at Simmons College in Boston, with an MA thesis that constructed a geneology of black women's narratives of cancer and HIV and their relationship to the field of queer theory. Ally has a...