Borderlands and Diaspora: Contemporary Photography’s Engagements with Race in the Americas
Theresa Delgadillo is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies at UW-Madison. Delgadillo is a noted authority on U.S. Latinx spirituality and religion, the African diaspora, Latinidad, and Latinxs in the Midwest. Her book publications include Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (2024), Latina Lives in Milwaukee (2015), Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative (2011), and she is co-editor and contributor of Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest (2022). She is the founder of Mujeres Talk (2010-2017) and co-founder and current board member of Latinx Talk (2017 to present), an interdisciplinary academic open access publication specializing in short-form research.
Professor Delgadillo is the keynote conference speaker for The Futures of Comparative Racialization Conference.