Michelle Joffroy

Michelle Joffroy is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Smith College specializing in cultural and literary studies of Latin America and the U.S. Latino/a community, with research intersecting critical digital humanities and transnational feminist, labor, indigenous, and ecological social movements.

Her research interests include:

• Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies
• Transnational Feminist Movements
• Labor and Domestic Worker Organizing
• Indigenous Social Movements
• Ecofeminism
• Multilingual Social Justice Pedagogy

Joffroy co-directs a $2+ million community-based digital humanities project with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, creating a multilingual political education curriculum, digital timeline, and documentary videos to support domestic worker organizing. Her publications analyze transnational labor movements, domestic work histories, and cultural production in social justice contexts, emphasizing intersectional perspectives on race, gender, and labor.

She teaches courses including Doméstica: Precarity and the Politics of Intimacy, Zapatismo Now!, Decolonizing Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, and Tierra y Vida: Latinx Ecological Imagination, prioritizing community-based research and digital humanities practices.

Academic background:

• Ph.D., University of Arizona
• M.A., University of Arizona
• B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst