Overview
Reymundo Escobedo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English, with a graduate minor in Latino studies, at Cornell University. His research interests include the English nineteenth-century, Victorian literature and culture, Latino studies, the novel, and decoloniality, and decolonial theory more broadly.
His dissertation, entitled Reading Victorian, Becoming Latino: Constructing Transcultural and Decolonial Latindad/es with(in) Victorian Literature, assembles an archive of Latino writers in the United States who, spanning from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, transculturized imperial and colonial narratives in Victorian texts to signify their own states of racialization, alterity, and latinidad: showcasing that the more Victorian literature Latinos read, the more Latino they become through various modes of (dis)identifications. Reading works by writers such as María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, José Martí, and Gloria Anzaldúa, his work aims to showcase that utilizing one’s personal lived experiences becomes a valid mode of analysis when reading (Victorian) literature even in the face of anachronistic and geographical boundaries. To recover from academic fatigue, he watches music videos and concert films, specifically those of Lady Gaga, Madonna, and ATEEZ.
Research Focus
- Nineteenth century British literature and culture
- Victorian literature and culture
- Latino studies
- Decoloniality and decolonial theory
- Postcolonial theory
- The novel