Jennifer Ponce de León
Jennifer S. Ponce de León is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on 20th and 21st century Left movements and cultural production in the Americas, as well as Marxist and anticolonial thought. She works across transnational Latinx and Latin American studies; studies of visual arts, literature, and performance; and critical theory. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies, affiliated faculty in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies and Cinema Studies, and a member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature. Jennifer is Associate Director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique, which holds an intensive summer seminar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris every summer, as well as symposia at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke University Press, 2021). Her writing has also appeared in American Quarterly; Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture; Philosophy Today; Black Agenda Report; ASAP/Journal; Social Text; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; e-misférica; Contemporary Theatre Review; and in multiple edited volumes. She recently co-authored with Gabriel Rockhill the Introduction to the English translation of Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism, which is forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. She is currently working on the book manuscript “Revolutionizing Aesthetics,” also co-authored with Rockhill, which will be published by Columbia University Press in the series New Directions in Critical Theory.