Renee Hudson

Renee Hudson is an assistant professor of English and director of Latinx and Latin American studies at Chapman University. A former University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego and Institute for Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellow, Renee is the author of Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas, out in 2024 with Fordham University Press. She is currently working on a second project on Latinx girlhood.

Articles

Integral Witnesses
Renee Hudson reviews Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s “The Brush” and Selva Almada’s “Not a River.”
Renee HudsonJul 25, 2024
- Poetry
- Fiction
Begin Again: On Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation”
Renee Hudson reviews Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s “Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites.”
Renee HudsonApr 24, 2024
- Poetry
Betraying Whiteness: On Lucas de Lima’s “Tropical Sacrifice”
Renee Hudson reviews Lucas de Lima’s “Tropical Sacrifice.”
Renee HudsonApr 9, 2023
- Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Akrílica” and the Not Yet of Latinidad
Renee Hudson considers “Akrílica,” a collection of poems by Juan Felipe Herrera.
Renee HudsonSep 8, 2022
- Poetry
“Our Energy Is the Epilogue of Empires”: On Angel Dominguez’s “Desgraciado”
Renee Hudson considers “Desgraciado” by Angel Dominguez.
Renee HudsonJul 29, 2022
- Poetry
Conversion Narratives, and Beyond, Part II: Adam Silvera’s Infinity Cycle and the Superhero Quandary
Renee Hudson sees in Adam Silvera’s YA a thoughtful examination of what it means to engage in policing over community forms of care.
Renee HudsonApr 30, 2021
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Conversion Narratives, and Beyond, Part I: Isabel Ibañez’s Inkasisa Series and the Failure of the “Woke” Conversion Narrative
Renee Hudson worries over anti-Indigeneity in the novels of Isabel Ibañez.
Renee HudsonApr 28, 2021
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Border Waters: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s “To the River, We Are Migrants”
Renee Hudson considers “To the River, We Are Migrants” by Ayendy Bonifacio.
Renee HudsonFeb 1, 2021
- Poetry
Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz’s “Latinx Literature Now”
Renee Hudson considers Ricardo L. Ortiz's "Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event."
Renee HudsonMar 24, 2020
Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature
Renee Hudson reviews Jennine Capó Crucet’s “My Time Among the Whites.”
Renee HudsonSep 3, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
The Americas of Carmen Giménez Smith
Renee Hudson reviews “Be Recorder” by Carmen Giménez Smith.
Renee HudsonJul 28, 2019
- Poetry
Situating the Enslaved: Eunsong Kim’s “Gospel of Regicide” and the Politics of Allyship
Renee Hudson looks at the relationship between betrayal and revolution in Eunsong Kim’s “Gospel of Regicide.”
Renee HudsonDec 14, 2017
“King Comus” and the Elasticity of the Neo-Slave Narrative
Renee Hudson appraises William Demby’s experimental novel “King Comus” in the context of black speculative fiction and the neo-slave narrative.
Renee HudsonNov 30, 2017
- Fiction