![Joey Whitfield](https://profiles-cardiff.imgix.net/attachments/2767?w=200&h=200&auto=format&crop=faces&fit=crop&q=90")
Dr Joey Whitfield
Uwch-ddarlithydd mewn Astudiaethau Sbaenaidd
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
My research and teaching is on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film. Most of my work is about the relationship between culture, crime and punishment. My first book is a study of Latin American prison writing which compares texts written by 'political' and 'criminal' prisoners from Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Brazil. I am now working on a second book on the cultural politics of the 'War on Drugs'.
I am also interested in translation, particularly of non-traditional literatures such as prisoner writing, testimonial texts and creative writing by anarchists. My translation of José Luis Zárate's story 'Fences' was recently published in the anthology of Latin American speculative fiction, A Larger Reality: Speculative Fiction from the Bicultural Margins / Una realidad más amplia: Historias desde la periferia bicultural – which was part of the Hugo nominated Mexicanx initiative.
I recently co-edited Unlocked a collection of writing by men imprisoned in HMP Nottingham.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Bell, L. and Whitfield, J. 2023. The creation of a feminist archive: decolonial feminisms in the testimonial work of the publishing collective sisters in the shadows and the searchers of El Fuerte [La creación de una archiva: Feminismos descoloniales en la obra testimonial de la Colectiva Editorial las Hermanas en la Sombra y las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte]. Cartaphilus 20, pp. 5-39. (10.6018/cartaphilus.543211)
2020
- Whitfield, J. and Altenberg, T. 2020. Fictions of organized crime: introduction. New Readings 17(2), pp. i-vi. (10.18573/newreadings.118)
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Forms of dissidence: 'Celestino antes del alba' and 'El mundo alucinante' by Reinaldo Arenas. New Readings 17(1), pp. 1-19. (10.18573/newreadings.111)
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Anarcha-feminism, prison and utopia: the abolitionist politics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuando Saturnina (2004) and La segunda vez como farsa (2008). In: Kelly, M. and Westall, C. eds. Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature London: Routledge
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Communicating beyond the human: posthumanism, neo-shamanism and Ciro Guerra’s El abrazo de la serpiente. In: Bollington, L. and Merchant, P. eds. Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 177-202.
2018
- Whitfield, J. 2018. Prison writing of Latin America. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Whitfield, J. 2018. City of control: José Padilha and the policing of Rio de Janeiro in Ônibus 174 (Bus 174), and Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). In: Ring, A., Steiner, H. and Veel, K. eds. Architecture and Control. Architectural Intelligences Leiden: Brill, pp. 169-187.
2017
- Whitfield, J. 2017. Protesting the Cuban prison: violence and sex between men in Carlos Montenegro's Hombres sin mujer and Ángel Santiesteban-Prats’ Dichosos los que lloran. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 94(9), pp. 1013-1031. (10.3828/bhs.2017.62)
2016
- Whitfield, J. 2016. Other neoliberal penalities: Marching Powder and prison tourism in La Paz. Theoretical Criminology 20(3), pp. 358-375. (10.1177/1362480615618443)
- Whitfield, J. 2016. Thresholds of illiteracy: theory, Latin America, and the crisis of resistance by Abraham Acosta [Book Review]. Modern Language Review 11(3), pp. 893-895. (10.5699/modelangrevi.111.3.0893)
2014
- Whitfield, J. 2014. Susana Draper, afterlives of confinement: spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America [Book Review]. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91(1), pp. 113-114. (10.3828/bhs.2014.7)
2010
- Whitfield, J. 2010. Narratives of internationalism in Angola: myths, "testimonio", fiction. International Journal of Cuban Studies 2(3/4), pp. 231-248.
Articles
- Bell, L. and Whitfield, J. 2023. The creation of a feminist archive: decolonial feminisms in the testimonial work of the publishing collective sisters in the shadows and the searchers of El Fuerte [La creación de una archiva: Feminismos descoloniales en la obra testimonial de la Colectiva Editorial las Hermanas en la Sombra y las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte]. Cartaphilus 20, pp. 5-39. (10.6018/cartaphilus.543211)
- Whitfield, J. and Altenberg, T. 2020. Fictions of organized crime: introduction. New Readings 17(2), pp. i-vi. (10.18573/newreadings.118)
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Forms of dissidence: 'Celestino antes del alba' and 'El mundo alucinante' by Reinaldo Arenas. New Readings 17(1), pp. 1-19. (10.18573/newreadings.111)
- Whitfield, J. 2017. Protesting the Cuban prison: violence and sex between men in Carlos Montenegro's Hombres sin mujer and Ángel Santiesteban-Prats’ Dichosos los que lloran. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 94(9), pp. 1013-1031. (10.3828/bhs.2017.62)
- Whitfield, J. 2016. Other neoliberal penalities: Marching Powder and prison tourism in La Paz. Theoretical Criminology 20(3), pp. 358-375. (10.1177/1362480615618443)
- Whitfield, J. 2016. Thresholds of illiteracy: theory, Latin America, and the crisis of resistance by Abraham Acosta [Book Review]. Modern Language Review 11(3), pp. 893-895. (10.5699/modelangrevi.111.3.0893)
- Whitfield, J. 2014. Susana Draper, afterlives of confinement: spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America [Book Review]. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91(1), pp. 113-114. (10.3828/bhs.2014.7)
- Whitfield, J. 2010. Narratives of internationalism in Angola: myths, "testimonio", fiction. International Journal of Cuban Studies 2(3/4), pp. 231-248.
Book sections
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Anarcha-feminism, prison and utopia: the abolitionist politics of Alison Spedding’s De cuando en cuando Saturnina (2004) and La segunda vez como farsa (2008). In: Kelly, M. and Westall, C. eds. Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature London: Routledge
- Whitfield, J. 2020. Communicating beyond the human: posthumanism, neo-shamanism and Ciro Guerra’s El abrazo de la serpiente. In: Bollington, L. and Merchant, P. eds. Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 177-202.
- Whitfield, J. 2018. City of control: José Padilha and the policing of Rio de Janeiro in Ônibus 174 (Bus 174), and Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad). In: Ring, A., Steiner, H. and Veel, K. eds. Architecture and Control. Architectural Intelligences Leiden: Brill, pp. 169-187.
Books
- Whitfield, J. 2018. Prison writing of Latin America. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Ymchwil
Most of my research uses literary and cultural studies to investigate questions around crime, justice and the state in 20th century and 21st century Latin America. My first book, Prison Writing of Latin America, is a comparative study of Latin American prison writing from Cuba, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Brazil.
My second major project is a Leverhulme funded study titled Beyond the Narcos: the cultural politics of the 'War on Drugs'. It looks at how different parts of the culture industry have represented this conflict in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
With Lucy Bell from the University of Surrey I am currently working on the AHRC funded project, Prisoner Publishing, which promotes cartonera publishing in prisons in Mexico and the UK.
I have also published articles on the Cuban involvement in the Angolan Civil War and in the field of theoretical criminology.
Addysgu
I lead a research-led module called 'Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Latin America', I contribute to 'Culture, Protest and Dissent in the 1960s', transnational modules, to the MA in Global Culture as well as teaching translation into English. I have taught several Inside Out modules in HMP Cardiff and I am working for these to become fully accredited.
Bywgraffiad
Fe ddes i Gaerdydd ym mis Medi 2017. Cyn symud i Gymru, gweithiais am dair blynedd ym Mhrifysgol Leeds, yn gyntaf fel Cymrawd Addysgu mewn Astudiaethau America Ladin ac yna fel Cymrawd Gyrfa Gynnar Leverhulme. Ysgrifennais fy PhD yng Nghanolfan Astudiaethau America Ladin ym Mhrifysgol Caergrawnt.
Rwyf wedi treulio amser yn byw ym Mheriw ac astudiais am ran o'm gradd israddedig ym Mhrifysgol Havana.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2015-2018)
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Latin American Studies Association
- Society of Latin American Studies
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
- Cuba Forum
- Inside Out Network, UK
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2017-present: Research Fellow, Cardiff University
- 2015-2017: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Leeds
- 2014-2015: Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
I have reviewed articles for:
- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
- Theoretical Criminology
- Crime, Media, Culture
- Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
- Modern Languages Review
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Rwy'n croesawu myfyrwyr ymchwil mewn unrhyw faes o Astudiaethau Diwylliannol America Ladin neu Sbaenaidd, yn enwedig y rhai sydd â diddordeb mewn gwneud ymchwil yn y meysydd canlynol:
- Carchardai
- trosedd
- 'Rhyfel ar Gyffuriau'
- Troseddeg ddiwylliannol
- Tystiolaeth a ffurfiau eraill o lenyddiaeth anganonaidd
- ffurfiau cyfiawnder anwladwriaethol
Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol
Katherine Pickering
Myfyriwr ymchwil
Javier CortÉs OrtuÑo
Myfyriwr ymchwil
