Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Ángeles Donoso Macaya (she/they) is an immigrant feminist scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. She is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at BMCC and affiliated faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her teaching interests and writing span Latin American and Caribbean photography theory and history, human rights activism and counter-archival production during the Latin American Cold War, documentary film, (trans)feminisms in the Southern Cone, migration studies, memory studies, public humanities, and environmental humanities. She has published on these topics in journals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, and the US. She is the author of the award-winning book The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2023)/ La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021; translated and expanded by the author); Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and co-author of archivo imperfecto / imperfect archive (Metales Pesados 2023). Ángeles is co-editor of WSQ’s latest volume, “No estamos a la intemperie: Open Call.” Between 2020-2023, she co-led Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory, part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at The Center for the Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center. Ángeles is part of The Social Text Collective; CUNY FSJP (Faculty and Staff Justice for Palestine; and member of the board of WSQ (Women Studies Quarterly) and CLAGS (The Center for LGBTQ Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center). She is co-founder of the creative-research collective somoslacélula.