Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies

Aurora Santiago Ortiz, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781478062080
• Print ISBN:
  9781478033349
  9781478029892

Interrogating The Future of Puerto Rican Studies brings together emerging and established scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine the disciplinary and epistemic transformations that have given way to new understandings of the field of Puerto Rican studies. Documenting the intellectual contours that have shaped the field of Puerto Rican Studies in the last decade, a diverse range of contributors survey the field with new lenses that are attentive to gender, queerness, disability, and Blackness among other things. A foreword by Yarimar Bonilla situates the volume in the context of the field's shift, specifically in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, while other sections, including "Queering Puerto Rican Studies," "Centering Blackness," and "Disaster Studies and Environmental Studies," as well as "Puerto Rican Studies in Broader Fields of Knowledges," "Prefigurative Politics and Social Movements," and "Legal and Political Disruptions," create a vibrant archive of conversations taking place within the field of Puerto Rican studies with the aim of interrogating its future.

Contributors. José Atiles, Bárbara Abadía Rexach, Yarimar Bonilla, daniela crespo-miró, Marie Cruz Soto, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Marcela Guerrero, Gustavo García López, Mónica Jiménez, Lawrence LaFountain Stokes, Marisol LeBrón, Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Sarah Molinari, Marisel Moreno, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Aurora Santiago Ortiz, Karrieann Soto Vega, Daniel Vázquez Sanabria, Roberto Vélez-Vélez, Joaquín Villanueva, Jacqueline Villarrubia-Mendoza

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword. Puerto Rican Studies in the Wake / Yarimar Bonilla
• Introduction / Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies / Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
• I. Puerto Rican Studies in Broader Fields of Knowledges
• II. Queering Puerto Rican Studies
• III. Centering Blackness
• IV. Disaster Studies & Environmental Studies
• V. Prefigurative Politics & Social Movements
• VI. Legal & Political Disruptions
• Epilogue / Pulse Check: On the Vitality of Puerto Rican Art / Marcela Guerrero
• Contributors
• Index