Frances
Negron-Mutaner
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities
English and Comparative Literature
Professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner is the founding director of the Media and Idea Lab and founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive at Columbia’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. She is recognized as a global expert in the areas of mass media and Latin/o American studies and has received Ford, Truman, Scripps Howard, Rockefeller, Pew and Chang-Chavkin fellowships. She also served as chair of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race from 2009–2016.
Undergraduate Courses Taught
- Literary Texts and Critical Methods
- Video as Inquiry
- Revolution in/on the Caribbean
Publications
- Latinos Left Behind by Media Mergers, Finds Study Led by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
- The Generic Latinidad of “In the Heights”
- HBO LATINO Presenta: Habla y Vota - Frances "Imagination"