Joshua Colborn

Professional Bio

Joshua Colborn is a graduate assistant in English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a research assistant at the Digital Culture and Media Initiative. His research currently focuses on figurations of race in Latina/o cultural production to understand how the casta system has been preserved, internalized, and contested over time and space. Consequently, his graduate work has concentrated on several of the constitutive problems of critical Latinx studies: mestizaje, chicanismo, and Latinidad; racialized desire and issues in representationality; the border and the policing of cultural boundaries. He often approaches these questions in the context of contemporary and 20th century hemispheric literatures, contemporary and 20th century hemispheric film and TV, and video games.