Jennifer Mojica Santana
Fellow- Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC)
(She/Her/Ella)
Education
PhD, English Language and Literature/Letters~ Chicano/Latino Studies; Journalism- Michigan State University
BA, English Language and Literature/Letters- University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Visiting Student of English Language and Literature/Letters- Brown University
Biography
Jennifer Mojica Santana is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Michigan State University, with certificates in Chicano/Latino Studies and Journalism. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. Her research critically engages music, visual and performance art, and community organizing as practices of activism and sociopolitical and colonial resistance in 21st-century Puerto Rico. She is also a Solidarity Fellow in the Mellon-funded Diaspora Solidarities Lab (DSL). As an RCAH Arts and Community Engagement Graduate Fellow, she is interested in centering the arts as a means of expression and liberation, as well as avenues that foster community building, education, and kinship. Moreover, she is invested in art's ability to decolonize our understanding of what constitutes knowledge.