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Shawn McDaniel

Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
Shawn McDaniel
Email shawnm@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx literary and cultural studies; Cuban diasporic print, visual, and sonic cultures; race, gender, and sexuality in the Americas; Modernismo; Intellectual history; Scottish Gaelic diasporic cultural production (Canada, United States, the Caribbean, South America)

Biography

Shawn McDaniel is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Director of Graduate Studies for ASE.

Intersecting Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx literary and cultural studies and intellectual history, his research and pedagogy explore subjectivity, power, aesthetics, modernism, race, gender, sexuality, and dissidence in print, visual, and sonic cultures of the Americas from the nineteenth century to the present.

His first book, Centenary Subjects: Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), analyzes how overlooked racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas...

Education

  • Ph.D. Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2013
    • Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2013 – 2016

  • Research Specialties

    Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx literary and cultural studies; Cuban diasporic print, visual, and sonic cultures; race, gender, and sexuality in the Americas; Modernismo; Intellectual history; Scottish Gaelic diasporic cultural production (Canada, United States, the Caribbean, South America)

  • Book

    • McDaniel, S. (2021). Centenary Subjects: Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas. Vanderbilt University Press.

    Book Chapters

    • McDaniel, S. (2021). “To Be, or To Become? On Reading and Recognition”. The Scholar as Human.
    • McDaniel, S. (2019). “De discípulo rubendariano a la encarnación modernista: Count François G. de Cisneros y la pose aristocrática”. Actas Congreso Internacional Rubén Darío.
    • McDaniel, S. (2018). “Rodó en Nueva York”. Lecturas contemporáneas de José Enrique Rodó. pp. 349-359.

    Book Review

    • McDaniel, S. (2020). The Dinner at Gonfarone’s: Salomón de la Selva and His Pan-American Project in Nueva York, 1915-1919, by Peter Hulme. Transmodernity. pp. 173-175.
    • McDaniel, S. (2016). Miedo negro, poder blanco en la Cuba colonial, by Jorge Camacho. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. pp. 453-455.

    Journal Article

    • McDaniel, S. (2024). “Breaking the Graphic/Sonic Barrier: Abril Lamarque’s Intermedial Lines in Cuban New York.”. Cuban Studies. Vol. 53, pp. 91-109.
    • McDaniel, S. (2018). “Race and the Aesthetics of Frivolity in the Work of Count François G. de Cisneros”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. 52 (1), pp. 3-25.
    • McDaniel, S. (2015). “Votre América: Blackness and Pan-Latinism in Les démocraties latines de l’Amérique”. Revista Hispánica Moderna. Vol. 68 (2), pp. 127-145.
    • McDaniel, S. (2014). “La Revista de Cayo Hueso (1897) como arbitraje del anticolonialismo en Cuba: intervenciones crítico-literarias entre Nueva York, la Florida y Perú”. La Habana Elegante. Vol. 56.
    • McDaniel, S. (2012). “Arielista Elitism and Geopolitical Exigencies in Post-War Colombia, 1902-1910”. Ciberletras. Vol. 29, pp. 47-67.
    • McDaniel, S. (2011). “Julián del Casal en Las Tres Américas (1893-1896) de Nueva York: Francisco García Cisneros y el rescate del decadentismo casaliano”. La Habana Elegante. Vol. 50.
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