Jim Miranda

• Assistant Professor, English and Media Studies

• Office: Adamian Academic Center - 089 | .. | jimmiranda@bentley.edu

Teaching Interests

J. V. Miranda teaches in the areas of Latinx Literature and Culture; Indigenous Literature and Thought/Theory; Technology and Culture, Comic Studies, and Border Studies.

Research Interests

Jim V. Miranda is professor of English and Media Studies and Coordinator for the Minor in Ethnic Studies. His areas of research include Latinx/e Literature and Culture, Indigenous Literature and Theory, and Border Studies. His recent work takes up the intersection of Latinx/e cultural production and technological theory in several projects, including Chicanx cultural representations of Brownness, construction of archives and archival practices, and a book-length project entitled Border Technics. These projects explore Chicanx and Latinx narrative and visual culture as sites that critique and reconfigure the relationship between technology, aesthetics, and cultural memory. His publications include, “Review of Peter H. Russell, Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim” in Transmotion (2023); “From Border “Reality” to Narrative Possibilities in Latinx TV and FX’s The Bridge.”Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century (2022); Waiting: Migration and Time in Four Motions” in Manifold: Experimental Criticism (2021); “Bound by Sovereignty: The Problem of Reciprocity and the ‘Indigenous Turn’ in Medieval Studies" in English Language Notes (Duke University Press, 2020); “Techno/Memo: The Politics of Cultural Memory in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer” in Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century (University of Arizona Press, 2019); and “Watchmen and Speculating on the Future of the Humanities,” (co-authored) in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Study Society (Ohio University Press, 2019). In addition to academic articles, Jim is also working on a collection of poetry, entitled Complex.

Consulting/Practice Interests

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