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Christopher Perreira

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D., Literature and Cultural Studies - UC San Diego
C.Phil., Literature and Cultural Studies - UC San Diego
M.A., English - University of Connecticut, Storrs
B.A., Literature - UC San Diego
A.A., English - San Diego City College

Biography

Christopher Perreira is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego. His book, Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State (Minnesota, 2023), examines how institutional forms of violence in U.S. public health are remembered and forgotten in archives and in cultural memory. Recently, Chris co-edited with M. Bianet Castellanos, Thomas X. Sarmiento, and Jessica Lopez Lyman a two-volume special issue—entitled Unsettling Global Midwest—for the journal American Studies. He regularly teaches interdisciplinary courses on ethnic studies, Chicanx/Latinx cultural studies, environmental racism, sound studies, and speculative fiction. 

Research and Teaching

Race and Medicine, Chicanx-Latinx Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Speculative Fiction, Environmental Racism/Justice, Critical Prison Studies

Selected Publications

  • Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
  • Unsettling Global Midwests. Co-edited with M. Bianet Castellanos, Thomas Sarmiento, and Jessica Lopez Lyman, American Studies, 62.3/4, 2023.
  • Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries.” In Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, ed. Ruha Benjamin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
  • Speculative Futurity and the Eco-Cultural Politics of Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148.” In Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial, eds. David J. Vázquez, Sarah D. Wald, and Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Sarah Jaquette Ray. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019.