Joseph Isaac Miranda

Joseph Isaac Miranda joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of English. His research and teaching interests converge at the intersection of Latinx Literature, queer of color critique, and legal and political theory. His first book project, Laws of Emplotment: The Suspended States of Latinx Literature, uses contemporary literature, film, and television to contend with the Insular Cases as they transformed over the 20th century from a legal framework used to suspend Puerto Rican sovereignty into an ethnographic hermeneutic that views Latinx at large as suspended from normativity. Miranda’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and appears (or is forthcoming) in such venues as American Literature and MELUS Journal. He holds a PhD from the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University and was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University during the 2023 academic year.