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Jessica Rodríguez Colón

Achievements

November 2, 2025

“From the Baquiné to the Streets: Performances of Grief.” (chapter) In International Handbook of Queer Death Studies. Lykke, Nina, Marietta Radomska, and Tara Mehrabi, eds. Routledge Press., 2025

October 25, 2025

Presentation: “The Gaze Economy of Pregnancy and Birth of (M)others in US American Film" for the panel The Visual Culture of Birth in America at SECAC, October 25, 2025.

October 26, 2024

Presentation: Video essay “Shedding, Molting, Letting Go; Live Version” for the panel Power of the Performative Lecture at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.

May 24, 2024

Presentation: “Danza Cimarrona (Marronage Dance): healing the soul from colonial trauma” at the Twelfth East-West Philosophers’ Conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 24-31,2024.

March 15, 2024

“¡Fenomenal! Rompeforma 1989-1996: Documentary Review.” (Film Review) CENTRO Journal Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, Spring 2024 XXXVI, no. 1, Spring 2024.

February 15, 2024

Presentation: “Aesthetics of Care through the Queering of Death in Recent Puerto Rican Cinema” for the panel How do feminist artists care? at the CAA conference in Chicago, February 16, 2024. 

February 1, 2024

Appointed to CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term starting February 2024.

October 12, 2023

Presented the paper "Looking into the Origins of Performing through Artivism in Public Spaces" as part of the Artivism in Public Spaces panel at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

October 12, 2023

Recipient of the SECAC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award. October, 2023.

September 5, 2023

Presented the paper "Aesthetics of Abortion: Our Uterus, not Your Home" at the 14th annual meeting of the Pacific Association for Continental Tradition. Seattle University.

June 13, 2023

"Queering Death in Puerto Rican Cinema." Annual Film-Philosophy Conference. Chapman University. Irvine, California, USA.

May 24, 2023

Presentation: "Bad Bunny's Aesthetics: from sound to visual perception." 16th annual meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. The Pontífica Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.

September 9, 2022

Presented: "The Aesthetics of Dancing in Silence"  at the 13th annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. University of San Francisco, USA.

September 8, 2022

Opening Performance: "The Aesthetics of Dancing in Silence" at the 13th annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. University of San Francisco, USA.

September 11, 2021

Presented: "The Gaze of Anarchy: from the imaginary to its rehearsal" at the Annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. University of Hawaii. Hilo, USA.

September 10, 2021

Group Exhibition: Art & Anarchy. Volcano Arts Center, Mountain View, Hawaii

September 10, 2021

Presentation: “The Gaze of Anarchy: from the imaginary to its rehearsal" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

June 17, 2020

Presented: "Unveiling the Forgotten Voices of Female Thinkers: Rethinking Economics." 47th annual meeting of the History of Economics Society. Virtual Conference via Zoom.

March 1, 2020

Publication: “The Madonna’s Breast and the Surprise of the Real: From Ideal to Embodied” in the publication Breasts Across Motherhood: Lived Experiences and Critical Examinations.

February 17, 2020

“The Madonna’s Breast and the Surprise of the Real: From Ideal to Embodied. ” (Chapter), In Breasts Across Motherhood: Lived Experiences and Critical Examinations, 272. Demeter Press, 2020.

November 4, 2019

Presentation: "From the Baquiné to the Streets: Performances of Grief" at the First International Queer Death Studies Conference.

June 28, 2019

Presentation: "The Gaze Economy of (m)others" at the 28th IAFFE Annual Conference.

Job Appointments

September 1, 2025

Associate Adjunct Professor, Lehman College of the City University of New York

January 20, 2019

Appointment: Professor of Art History for the course in the Humanities in collaboration with Bard College.

May 12, 2015

Faculty Artist Residency Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Book Publications

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