Cecelia
Alfonso-Stokes

Department of English, Literary Studies

I am a doctoral dissertator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working at the intersection of Latinx cultural studies, affect theory, and American literary history. My research examines how Latinx identity is felt, represented, and politically mobilized among second- and later-generation Latines in the twenty-first-century United States, drawing on novels, superhero comics, film, television, and YA fiction to trace the affective contours of a generation shaped entirely within and by American culture.