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Joseph Isaac Miranda is an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, specializing in Latino literature and visual culture, queer theory, and minoritarian aesthetics, with research centered on the intersections of law, literature, and racial formation in US Latino experiences.
His work examines post-1945 Latino literature and culture to argue that racialization emerges from a literary form embedded in legal doctrine—the "suspended narrative of development." By analyzing the Insular Cases and their psychic afterlives, Miranda demonstrates how discourses of latinidad in Ethnic Studies originated from colonial legal frameworks that infantilized subjects, revealing a core contradiction: Latino Studies' pursuit of development as a political horizon is structured by the very laws it seeks to resist, constituting a subjectivity defined by loss and mourning.
His scholarly contributions have been honored with prestigious recognitions:
- 2025 MELUS Katharine Newman Best Essay Award
- 2025 Crompton-Knoll Best Essay Prize Honorable Mention (awarded by the GLQ caucus of the MLA and American Studies Q/T Caucus)
Miranda's research is supported by the Ford Foundation, and his publications appear in leading journals including MELUS Journal and American Literature, advancing critical discourse in Latino Studies and legal theory.
