Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Faculty Leader

Ángeles Donoso Macaya is a feminist immigrant educator, researcher, writer and
activist from Santiago, Chile, based in New York City. She is Professor
of Latin American Visual Studies in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Spanish at the Borough of
Manhattan Community College, CUNY. Her research centers on Latin
American photography theory and history, counter-archival production,
human rights activism, documentary film, (trans)feminisms in the
Southern Cone, and public humanities scholarship. She is the author of La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales Pesados 2021) / The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile’s Dictatorship (University
Press of Florida 2020; 2nd edition 2023), which received the Best Book
Award in Latin American Visual Culture (LASA 2021), Best Book Award in
Recent History and Memory (LASA 2022), and an Honorable Mention Award
for the Socolow-Johnson Prize (CLAH 2022); of the autobiographical essay
Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and co-author, along with photographer Paz Errázuriz, of archivo imperfecto/imperfect archive (Metales Pesados 2023). Her most recent articles have appeared in The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice (2023), Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies/Travesía (2023), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (2021),Cold War Camera (Duke UP 2023) and Photography and its Publics (Bloomsbury Press 2020), among others. Between 2020-2023, she was Faculty Lead of Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory,
part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative
Research at the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Ángeles was a 2021-2022 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow and
a 2023 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Graduate
Center. She is also member of the activist research collective somoslacélula, which creates video-essays that respond to pressing matters.