Welcome Dr. Ángeles Donoso Macaya who teaches Introduction to Public Scholarship in Fall 2025.
A respected public scholar, Dr. Ángeles Donoso Macaya (LAILAC) and Professor of Spanish at BMCC is a feminist visual studies scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York
Introduction to Public Scholarship: Theories, Methods, and Approaches (PUBL 70100/MALS74800/HIST 75500) introduces students to the history and development of engaged and collaborative public-facing scholarship in the humanities and social sciences as an interdisciplinary field and a public good. The course will be one of two required courses for the new Public Scholarship Certificate Program.
Dr. Ángeles Donoso Macaya’s research and writing spans Latin American and Caribbean photography theory and history, counter-archival production, human rights activism, memory studies, documentary film, (trans)feminisms in the Southern Cone, and public humanities scholarship. She is the author of the award-winning book The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2nd ed. 2023)/ La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021); of the autobiographical essay “Lanallwe” (Tusquets 2023); and co-author, along with photographer Paz Errázuriz, of archivo imperfect/imperfect archive (Metales Pesados 2023). Between 2020-2023, she co-led Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory, part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at the Center for the Humanities. Ángeles is a member The Social Text Collective and part of WSQ Editorial Board
Photo credit: m Cynthia Santos-Briones for Brewing Memories/ Archives in Common