Carmen Merport Quiñones

Biography

Carmen Merport Quiñones is an assistant professor in comparative American studies. Her research draws on the fields of literary studies, art history, and media studies in order to examine the manner in which different modes of perception are involved in the composure and discomposure of identities rooted in race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, and sexuality. Her current book project, Life in Motion: An Affective Genealogy of Minoritarian Art, recounts exchanges between avant-garde practices, the art world, and the visual culture of the mass picture magazine. Merport Quiñones’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including PMLA, MELUS, Textual Practice, Criticism, and Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, a recent publication of the Museum of Modern Art.