Dr Joey Whitfield
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Trosolwg
My research and teaching is on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film. Most of my work is about the relationship between culture, crime and punishment. My first book is a study of Latin American prison writing which compares texts written by 'political' and 'criminal' prisoners from Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Brazil. I am now working on a second book on the cultural politics of the 'War on Drugs'.
I am also interested in translation, particularly of non-traditional literatures such as prisoner writing, testimonial texts and creative writing by anarchists. My translation of José Luis Zárate's story 'Fences' was recently published in the anthology of Latin American speculative fiction, A Larger Reality: Speculative Fiction from the Bicultural Margins / Una realidad más amplia: Historias desde la periferia bicultural – which was part of the Hugo nominated Mexicanx initiative.
I recently co-edited Unlocked a collection of writing by men imprisoned in HMP Nottingham.
Bywgraffiad
I came to Cardiff in September 2017. Before moving to Wales I worked for three years at the University of Leeds, first as a Teaching Fellow in Latin American Studies and then as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. I wrote my PhD at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.
I have spent time living in Peru and I studied for part of my undergraduate degree at the University of Havana.
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2015-2018)
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Latin American Studies Association
- Society of Latin American Studies
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
- Cuba Forum
- Inside Out Network, UK
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2017-present: Research Fellow, Cardiff University
- 2015-2017: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Leeds
- 2014-2015: Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
Since 2015
2017
- 'The Cultural Politics of the "War on Drugs" in Latin America: Prohibition and Beyond' (Invited Talk), Cardiff University
- 'Carnivals of death: Mapa Teatro’s Los incontados’, American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht
- ‘The criminal is political: the politics of Brazilian drug gangs on film’, Latin American Studies Association, Lima
- ‘Sobriety and intoxication in Borracho estaba, pero me acuerdo by Víctor Hugo Viscarra and Opio en las nubes by Rafael Chaparro Madiedo’, Society for Latin American Studies, Glasgow
2016
- ‘Crimes too big to solve: the war on drugs in Latin American fiction’, Captivating Criminality: Crime Fiction, Felony, Fear and Forensics, Bath Spa
- ‘Natural highs: hallucinogens and the posthuman in El abrazo de la serpiente’, Eco- criticism in Times of Crisis: Nature, Capital and Culture in the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, Leeds
- ‘What’s anarchic about anarchist writing? Some examples from Latin America’, Latin American Studies Association, New York
2015
- ‘Female masculinity vs the kyriarchy: cultural resistance to femicide’, Provocaciones, Trinity College, Cambridge
- ‘“Mi ética es la estética”: Biófilo Panclasta and “anarchist” writing’, Society of Latin American Studies, Aberdeen
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
I have reviewed articles for:
- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
- Theoretical Criminology
- Crime, Media, Culture
- Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
- Modern Languages Review
Cyhoeddiadau
2023
- Bell, L. and Whitfield, J. 2023. The creation of a feminist archive: decolonial feminisms in the testimonial work of the publishing collective sisters in the shadows and the searchers of El Fuerte. Cartaphilus
2020
- Whitfield, J. and Altenberg, T. 2020. Fictions of organized crime: introduction. New Readings 17(2), pp. i-vi. (10.18573/newreadings.118)
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Forms of dissidence: 'Celestino antes del alba' and 'El mundo alucinante' by Reinaldo Arenas. New Readings 17(1), pp. 1-19. (10.18573/newreadings.111)
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Anarcha-feminism, prison and utopia: the abolitionist politics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuando Saturnina (2004) and La segunda vez como farsa (2008). In: Kelly, M. and Westall, C. eds. Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature London: Routledge
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Communicating beyond the human: posthumanism, neo-shamanism and Ciro Guerra’s El abrazo de la serpiente. In: Bollington, L. and Merchant, P. eds. Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 177-202.
2018
- Whitfield, J. 2018. Prison writing of Latin America. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Whitfield, J. 2018. City of control: José Padilha and the policing of Rio de Janeiro in Ônibus 174 (Bus 174), and Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). In: Ring, A., Steiner, H. and Veel, K. eds. Architecture and Control. Architectural Intelligences Leiden: Brill, pp. 169-187.
2017
- Whitfield, J. 2017. Protesting the Cuban prison: violence and sex between men in Carlos Montenegro's Hombres sin mujer and Ángel Santiesteban-Prats’ Dichosos los que lloran. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 94(9), pp. 1013-1031. (10.3828/bhs.2017.62)
2016
- Whitfield, J. 2016. Other neoliberal penalities: Marching Powder and prison tourism in La Paz. Theoretical Criminology 20(3), pp. 358-375. (10.1177/1362480615618443)
- Whitfield, J. 2016. Thresholds of illiteracy: theory, Latin America, and the crisis of resistance by Abraham Acosta [Book Review]. Modern Language Review 11(3), pp. 893-895. (10.5699/modelangrevi.111.3.0893)
2014
- Whitfield, J. 2014. Susana Draper, afterlives of confinement: spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America [Book Review]. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91(1), pp. 113-114. (10.3828/bhs.2014.7)
2010
- Whitfield, J. 2010. Narratives of internationalism in Angola: myths, "testimonio", fiction. International Journal of Cuban Studies 2(3/4), pp. 231-248.
Addysgu
I lead a research-led module called 'Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Latin America', I contribute to 'Culture, Protest and Dissent in the 1960s', transnational modules, to the MA in Global Culture as well as teaching translation into English. I have taught several Inside Out modules in HMP Cardiff and I am working for these to become fully accredited.
Most of my research uses literary and cultural studies to investigate questions around crime, justice and the state in 20th century and 21st century Latin America. My first book, Prison Writing of Latin America, is a comparative study of Latin American prison writing from Cuba, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Brazil.
My second major project is a Leverhulme funded study titled Beyond the Narcos: the cultural politics of the 'War on Drugs'. It looks at how different parts of the culture industry have represented this conflict in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
With Lucy Bell from the University of Surrey I am currently working on the AHRC funded project, Prisoner Publishing, which promotes cartonera publishing in prisons in Mexico and the UK.
I have also published articles on the Cuban involvement in the Angolan Civil War and in the field of theoretical criminology.
Supervision
I welcome research students in any area of Latin American or Hispanic Cultural Studies, particularly those interested in pursuing research in the following areas:
- prisons
- crime
- the 'War on Drugs'
- cultural criminology
- testimonial and other forms of non-canonical literature
- non-state based forms of justice
