John Petrus
John Petrus received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2015. His dissertation project, entitled “Dragging Down Hegemony: Gender Transgression in Contemporary Managua", addresses how traditional gender roles and heteronormativity are being questioned and protested in contemporary Nicaragua through a variety of audio-visual cultural interventions. His current research project focuses on gender transgression in the Central American diaspora as well as multi-media representations of sexual and racial difference related to the AIDS crisis in US Latin@ communities.
Recent Conference Presentations:
“Devenir Torovenado: Performing and Re-thinking Indigenous Tradition and Diversidad Sexual,†AILCFH (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica) 2015 Annual Conference
“Documentary Impulse, Third Cinema, and Queer Cinema,†14th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference
Selected Publications
“International News Network: Un análisis de transgresiones de género en la producción audioâ€visual nicaragüense†In: Revista de Historia. No. 29 Septemberâ€December, 2013. Managua: IHNCAâ€UCA (Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica†Universidad Centroamericana).