Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez
Professor — Ph.D., 1998, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
Chair/Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Depts. Spanish and Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies

Contact
- E-mail: jarroyo@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512.232.4536 / 512.471.7284
- Office: BEN 3.120 / BEN 2.116D
- Office Hours: MT 9:30-11:00 or by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B3700
Interests
Latin American, Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian & Afro-Diasporic Literatures & Cultures; race, gender & sexuality in colonial & postcolonial societies; Latin American literature, ethnography and sociology.
Biography
Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez is Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. She received her Phd from the University of California at Berkeley (1998) and taught at the University of Michigan from 1998-2004. She arrived at UT Austin in 2004. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the University of Puerto Rico and the Mellon Foundation. Her research interests center on Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures (1800s to present), the relationships between literature, ethnographic and sociological discourses in Latin America,Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures, and critical discourses ofrace, gender and sexuality in colonial and postcolonial societies. Author of "Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografia en Cuba y Brasil"(Pittsburg, Iberoamericana, 2003); she is currently finishine a book manuscript entitled "Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry (Palgrave Mc Millan, 2013) which explores the links between turn of the centrury Caribbean Masonic thought, culture and politics. Also, she is developing a new research project on "virtual Caribbean bodies" which explores the relationship between racialized bodies, media techonologies and globalization in contemporary Caribbean societies.
Courses
ILA 387 • Afro-Latinos: Polit/Cul/Memory
44085 • Spring 2020
Meets T 9:30AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.104
(also listed as AFR 381, LAS 381)
ILA 387 • Tech: Slavery/Capital/Cult
44605 • Spring 2019
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as LAS 381)
SPC 320C • Cuba In Question-Cub
45410 • Spring 2019
GC
(also listed as AFR 372G, HIS 363K, LAS 328)
ILA 387 • Afro-Latinos: Polit/Cul/Memory
45752 • Fall 2017
Meets TH 9:30AM-12:30PM GWB 1.138
(also listed as AFR 381, LAS 381)
ILA 387 • Lit/Cul/Prfrm In Glob Times
45750 • Fall 2016
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM MEZ 1.104
SPC 320C • Cuba In Question-Cub
45190 • Spring 2016
GC
(also listed as C L 323, HIS 363K, LAS 328)
AFR 381 • Afro-Latinos: Polit/Cul/Memory
29760 • Fall 2015
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GWB 1.138
(also listed as LAS 381)
AFR 374E • Afro-Caribbean Diasporas
29805 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM BEN 1.122
GC
(also listed as LAS 322)
SPN 355 • Memory/Writing Caribbn Cul
46170 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM BEN 1.126
GC
(also listed as LAS 370S)
AFR 372G • Lit And Media In Caribbean
30570 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM JES A209A
GC
(also listed as LAS 328)
SPN 301 • Spn For Grad Stu In Other Dept
46930 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.108
LAS 370P • Brazilian Studies
40985 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.102
SPN 349 • Afro Latinos: Memory/Lit/Cul
47560 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM JES A215A
GC
(also listed as AFR 374F, LAS 370S)
ILA 380 • Intro To Lit And Cult Theory
46535 • Fall 2013
Meets T 10:00AM-1:00PM UTC 1.142
ILA 387 • Afro-Caribbean Diasporas
46550 • Fall 2013
Meets TH 1:00PM-4:00PM BEL 232
AFR 374E • Afro-Caribbean Diasporas
30402 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM JES A205A
(also listed as LAS 370S)
SPN 380K • Lit & Media In Spn Caribbean
46930 • Spring 2013
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM UTC 3.120
(also listed as AFR 387D, LAS 392S)
POR F341 • Afro-Bra: Lit/Cul/Pol Ag-Bra
88750 • Summer 2012
GC
SPN 349 • Afro Latinos: Memory/Lit/Cul
46565 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 8:00AM-9:30AM BEN 1.106
(also listed as AFR 374F, LAS 370S)
SPN 380K • Afro-Caribbean Diasporas
46570 • Fall 2011
Meets T 10:00AM-1:00PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as AFR 383, LAS 392S)
SPN 375 • Afr Diaspora In Lat Amer/Carib
47240 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.122
(also listed as LAS 370S)
LAS 370S • Contemp Spanish Amer Prose
40265 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ 1.210
GC
SPN 380K • Caribbean Lit, Media, Culture
46710 • Fall 2010
Meets T 9:30AM-12:30PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as LAS 392S)
AFR 301 • African American Culture
35405 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM UTC 4.134
CD
(also listed as AMS 315, ANT 310L)
LAS 370S • Afr Diaspora In Lat Amer/Carib
40628 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.122
LAS 370S • Contemp Spanish Amer Prose
40985 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM JES A216A
GC
SPN S325L • Intro Spn Amer Lit Snc Mod
88515 • Summer 2009
Meets MTWTHF 11:30AM-1:00PM MEZ 2.122
SPN 325L • Intro Spn Amer Lit Snc Mod
47995-48000 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ 1.120
(also listed as LAS 370S)
SPN 349 • Afro-Caribbean Diasporas
48265 • Spring 2008
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.216
(also listed as AFR 374E, LAS 370S)
SPN 352 • Mulatto Identities
48300 • Spring 2008
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 1.120
(also listed as LAS 370S)
SPN 325L • Intro Spn Amer Lit Snc Mod
49210 • Fall 2007
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM JES A207A
(also listed as LAS 370S)
AFR 374E • Afr Diaspora In Lat Amer/Carib
35300 • Spring 2007
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 1.120
(also listed as LAS 370S)
LAS 370S • Contemp Spanish Amer Prose
40520 • Spring 2007
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.126
SPN 325L • Intro Spn Amer Lit Snc Mod
46940 • Spring 2006
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BEN 1.102
(also listed as LAS 370S)
SPN 349 • Readings In Afro-Carib Diasp-W
47085 • Spring 2006
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.122
C2
(also listed as AFR 374E, LAS 370S)
SPN 325L • Intro Spn Amer Lit Snc Mod
47045 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 208
(also listed as LAS 370S)
AFR 374E • Afr Diaspora In Lat Amer/Carib
32955 • Spring 2005
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM BEN 1.104
(also listed as LAS 370S)
SPN 325L • Intro Spn Amer Lit Snc Mod
45500 • Spring 2005
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM BEN 1.126
(also listed as LAS 370S)
Publications
Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil
Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografia en Cuba y Brasil (University of Pittsburgh: Editorial Iberoamericana, 2003) is a critique of cultural models of racial democracy in the work of Gilberto Freyre (Brazil) and Fernando Ortiz (Cuba) and several Brazilian and Cuban novels, from the nineteenth and twentieth century, to analyze cultural transvestism as a strategic writing/social representation model that uses race, gender, and sexuality to stereotype, control and create fixed images of black populations in Brazil and Cuba. By analyzing models of gender and masculinity, the book offers queer readings of Gilberto Freyre's works and fiction, as well as Cuban carnival and performative culture in the work of Fernando Ortiz.
Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry
Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Free Masonry analyzes the Masonic, literary, and political writings of Andrés Cassard, Ramón E. Betances, José Martí, Arturo Schomburg, and Rafael Serra, Spanish Caribbean intellectuals who lived in the decades of anti-colonial struggle in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola (1860-1898). In the Caribbean, Masonic notions of liberal freedom coincided with the legacies of empire and colonial slavery, creating languages of secrecy, dissent, and radical affective politics that influenced radical Caribbean political cultures in the turn of the nineteenth century. By analyzing the lives, writings, and activism of these exiled Masonic intellectuals, this book provides insights into the Pan-Caribbean formations of nation and diaspora and sheds light on the role of print-culture, Masonic ritual and languages, racial ideologies, and community in the Caribbean and the United States.