Marissa López is a professor of English and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, researching Chicanx literature from the 19th century to the present, with an emphasis on 19th-century Mexican California. She has written two books: Chicano Nations (NYU Press, 2011), about nationalism and Chicanx literature from the early 1800s to post-9/11, and Racial Immanence (NYU Press, 2019), which explores uses of the body and affect in Chicanx cultural production. She recently completed a yearlong residency at the Los Angeles Public Library as a Scholars & Society fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies, during which she worked to collaboratively develop a mobile app, Picturing Mexican America, that uses geodata to display images of Mexican California relevant to a user’s location.
Twitter: @marissaklopez
Instagram: @picturingmexicanamerica