Cristina
M.
Visperas
Cristina
M.
Visperas
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Building on her background in molecular and cellular biology, Cristina Mejia Visperas examines the politics and cultural histories of the life sciences, with a focus on race and state violence. Her book, Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (NYU Press, 2022), is an abolitionist study of postwar medical science research conducted in prisons and the emergence of modern American bioethics. Her next project addresses the political role of emotions in the Anthropocene.
Visperas currently sits on the editorial board of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, an open-access academic journal publishing feminist texts on science and technology.
Books
Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (2022, NYU Press).
Journal Articles
“The Able-Bodied Slave” (2019, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies).
“Nothing/More: Black Studies and Feminist Technoscience,” co-editor (2016, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience).
“African Kaposi’s Sarcoma in the Light of Global AIDS: Antiblackness and Viral Visibility,” co-author (2014, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry).
“Chicken Embryonic Brain: An In-Vivo Model for Verifying Neural Stem Cell Potency,” co-author (2013, Journal of Neurosurgery).
Courses
COMM 476: Crisis and Culture: The Anthropocene
COMM 649: Methodologies in Cultural Studies