Guisela Latorre

Guisela Latorre is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University where she teaches classes on visual culture and Latina feminism. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary U.S. Latina/o and Latin American art. Her first book titled Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (University of Texas Press, 2008) explored the recurrence of indigenist motifs in Chicana/o community murals. Latorre’s current research activities include the co-editorship of the feminist journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (with Judy Tzu Wu) and work on a second book project on the graffiti and mural movement in Chile during the post-dictatorship era.