Biography
Emily Cammack is a Program Specialist in Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication in the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. She is also a doctoral candidate and instructor in American Studies at UNM. Her research and teaching interests include the history of and the contemporary conditions engendered by the convergence of culture and technology in border regions. Believing that borders are both broadly defined and discriminately deployed, Emily sees the border itself as a technology that defines and destroys, confines and confounds, tricks and transcends. Her dissertation, Asylum, Retablos, and Bling, engages critical regionalism and comparative transamerican analytics in an examination of the fantastic and performative in the American global south, from Tijuana to Havana and places and practices in between.