Renee Hudson

Renee Hudson is an assistant professor of English and director of Latinx and Latin American studies at Chapman University. A former University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego and Institute for Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellow, Renee is the author of Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas, out in 2024 with Fordham University Press. She is currently working on a second project on Latinx girlhood.

Articles

Begin Again: On Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation”
Renee Hudson reviews Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites.”
Renee HudsonApr 24
- Poetry
Betraying Whiteness: On Lucas de Lima’s “Tropical Sacrifice”
Renee Hudson reviews Lucas de Lima’s “Tropical Sacrifice.”
Renee HudsonApr 9, 2023
- Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Akrílica” and the Not Yet of Latinidad
Renee Hudson considers “Akrílica,” a collection of poems by Juan Felipe Herrera.
Renee HudsonSep 8, 2022
- Poetry
“Our Energy Is the Epilogue of Empires”: On Angel Dominguez’s “Desgraciado”
Renee Hudson considers “Desgraciado” by Angel Dominguez.
Renee HudsonJul 29, 2022
- Poetry
Conversion Narratives, and Beyond, Part II: Adam Silvera’s Infinity Cycle and the Superhero Quandary
Renee Hudson sees in Adam Silvera’s YA a thoughtful examination of what it means to engage in policing over community forms of care.
Renee HudsonApr 30, 2021
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Conversion Narratives, and Beyond, Part I: Isabel Ibañez’s Inkasisa Series and the Failure of the “Woke” Conversion Narrative
Renee Hudson worries over anti-Indigeneity in the novels of Isabel Ibañez.
Renee HudsonApr 28, 2021
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Border Waters: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s “To the River, We Are Migrants”
Renee Hudson considers “To the River, We Are Migrants” by Ayendy Bonifacio.
Renee HudsonFeb 1, 2021
- Poetry
Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz’s “Latinx Literature Now”
Renee Hudson considers Ricardo L. Ortiz's "Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event."
Renee HudsonMar 24, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- Politics and Economics
Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature
Renee Hudson reviews Jennine Capó Crucet’s “My Time Among the Whites.”
Renee HudsonSep 3, 2019
- Memoir
- Politics and Economics
The Americas of Carmen Giménez Smith
Renee Hudson reviews “Be Recorder” by Carmen Giménez Smith.
Renee HudsonJul 28, 2019
- Poetry
Situating the Enslaved: Eunsong Kim’s “Gospel of Regicide” and the Politics of Allyship
Renee Hudson looks at the relationship between betrayal and revolution in Eunsong Kim’s “Gospel of Regicide.”
Renee HudsonDec 14, 2017
- Poetry
- Politics and Economics
“King Comus” and the Elasticity of the Neo-Slave Narrative
Renee Hudson appraises William Demby’s experimental novel “King Comus” in the context of black speculative fiction and the neo-slave narrative.
Renee HudsonNov 30, 2017
- Fiction