Ilana Luna
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Mail code: 2151Campus: West
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Ilana Luna is an associate professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (SHArCS) at Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. She received her doctorate in Hispanic languages and literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011, where she was also the first doctoral student to graduate with an emphasis in translation studies. Her master's degree in Spanish and Portuguese was also granted, with honors, from UCSB (2006), and her bachelor's degree in Spanish literature was awarded Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 2001.
Luna has lived, worked and studied on both coasts of the U.S., in the northeast, the mid-Atlantic and in the south. She has also lived and studied in Argentina and Mexico.
Her research revolves around questions of gender and sexual identity, the gendered performance of self and the representation of women, class struggle, and art’s potential for the praxis of social justice, primarily focusing on literature and film. She is the author of the book Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film (2018, SUNY Press) and is the Co-Director of Programming for Femme Revolution Film Fest in Mexico City. She is a singer, a writer and a translator of poetry and prose. Some of her work can be seen in Jacket2, Hostos Review, Askew, Four Chambers Press, Oomph!, Barzakh, Vice Versa, Hektoen International and Contrapuntos. She has translated books by Juan José Rodinás: Koan: Underwater (2018, Cardboard House Press), Judith Santopietro: Tiawanaku: Poems from the Madre Coqa (2019, Orca Libros) and Giancarlo Huapaya: SubVerse Workshop (Lavender Ink/ Diálogos 2020).
Luna finds herself quite at home in an interdisciplinary professional milieu as her work has never been tied exclusively to a single approach nor area of interest, neither geographically nor thematically. Her professional training in literature coupled with her background in musical performance, her love of photography and film, large-scale visual art and architecture as well as regional and national culinary traditions all feed her passions in and around Latin American studies. Her teaching and research defy the limiting notions of regional and disciplinary study to span across visible and invisible boundaries and creates new ways of thinking about our historic and future interconnectedness.
- Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literature (Emphasis in Translation Studies), University of California-Santa Barbara 2011
- M.A. Spanish and Portuguese (Honors), University of California-Santa Barbara 2006
- B.A. Spanish Literature (Magna Cum Laud), Bryn Mawr College 2001
- . . Review of: Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas (2014).
- Ilana Luna. "También la lluvia": Of Coproductions and Re-encounters, a Re-vision of the Colonial. Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (2014).
- . Cruzando fronteras: México-EUA en el cine del libre comercio. (2014).
- Ignacio Ruíz Pérez. Translated by Ilana Luna. Song of a Wounded Deer. Askew (2014).
- Ignacio Ruíz Pérez. Translation by Ilana Luna. "Coastal". Houston Poetry Festival Anthology (2014).
- . . Review of: Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety (0).
- Luna,Ilana*, Tellez,Michelle. ChicanaLatina Artivism: performance in socio-historical context. (11/5/2013 - 11/30/2013).
Courses
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
SPA 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
FOR 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
LAS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 205 | Deep Roots: Latin America |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
LAS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
SPA 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
FOR 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
LAS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
LAS 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
SPA 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
FOR 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
SPA 429 | Writing Mexico: Major Texts |
LAS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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WST 690 | Reading and Conference |
LAS 205 | Deep Roots: Latin America |
SPA 474 | Revolutnr Mexico&Postmdrn Revs |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
SPA 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
FOR 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
LAS 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 205 | Deep Roots: Latin America |
SPA 325 | Intro to Hispanic Literature |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAS 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
SPA 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
FOR 449 | LatinAmCinema:Dead/Disappeared |
LAS 340 | Latin American Women Writers |
WST 341 | Latin American Women Writers |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 201 | Intermediate Spanish |
LAS 330 | From the Inside/Lat Am Journey |
LAS 205 | Deep Roots: Latin America |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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FOR 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
LAS 494 | Special Topics |
LAS 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
- Ilana Luna. Cruzando fronteras: México-EUA en el cine del libre comercio. XVII Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Tan Lejos de Dios. University of California, Santa Barbara (Nov 2014).
- Ilana Luna. El cine de Michel Franco: Violencia neoliberal y aislamiento social. IV Foro de Análisis Cinematográfico (FACINE) Tijuana, Mexico (Sep 2014).
- Ilana Luna. La bobe y Tela de Sevoya: La muerte y el lenguaje del amor. XX Annual Juan Bruce Novoa Mexican Studies Conference: University of California, Irvine (May 2014).
- Adolescent alienation and nation: violence from above in the works of Michel Franco. Adolescent alienation and nation: violence from above in the works of Michel Franco. Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2014) Congress, Chicago, Illinois (May 2014).
- Ilana Luna. Tela de sevoya: lenguaje y memoria. Rastreando una identidad sefardita en México. Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas, El Paso (Mar 2014).
- Ilana Luna. Alta infidelidad, El silencio de las amantes: apuntes desde la cama de ‘las otras’. XVI Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Huellas del tiempo/ Traces of Time (Nov 2013).
- Emergency Preparedness Committee, member (2014 - Present)
- IHR research cluster "Interpreting Contemporary Violence: Mexico, U.S.", member (2014 - Present)
- Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice, Board Member (2014 - Present)
- Entre NosOtras, Founding member, event organizer (2014 - Present)
- Hispanic Heritage Committee, member (2014 - Present)
- Human Rights Film Festival, Organizing committee member (2014 - Present)
- Martin Luther Kind Day Committee, member (2014 - Present)
- SHArCS, LAS program developer (2014 - Present)
- SHArCS, course developer (2013 - Present)
- Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice, Board Member (2013 - Present)