Assistant Professor | 21st Century Academic Leader

luisj.cintron@sagrado.edu

Luis Javier Cintrón Gutiérrez is a PhD candidate in Philosophy and Letters with a concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY-Albany). He holds a master's degree in Media and Contemporary Culture from the Ferré Rangel School of Communications at the University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY-Albany). Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Corazón and a second master's degree in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras Campus. Her bachelor's degree is in Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (RUM) of the UPR.  

He has been a teaching assistant and adjunct professor in the Department of Latin American Studies and the Spanish program of the Department of Languages, Literature and Culture at SUNY-Albany. He was also a visiting instructor for courses on social research methods in the Department of Sociology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He served as a research assistant at the Center for Social Research at the UPRRP, the Center for Applied Social Research, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Litoral Studies at RUM, while pursuing his bachelor's and master's degrees. 

Her most recent research focuses on the production of imaginaries and cultural representations resulting from drug trafficking violence and marginalization in Puerto Rico and the contemporary transnational Hispanic Caribbean. 

Some of his most recent publications include:

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. (fall 2023, estimated date). Para'o: Exotic Wake, Extreme Performance and Marginality in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In N. Varas-Díaz, N. Scott, & B. Bardine (Eds.), On Extremity: Sounds, images, words, and experiences. Lexington Books. 

Cintrón Gutiérrez, Luis J. (2022). Internet Memes and Representation of Contemporary Puerto Rican Cities: The Case of Bayamón as a NarcoCity. Art and Identity Politics, 26(26), 50-66.   https://doi.org/10.6018/reapi.529991

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2020. Tepito and Mexico City from the “third space” of Ingobernable.  Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies 4(1): 142-158. https://doi.org/10.23870/marlas.231  

Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Luis J. 2019. Between “making history” and “keep a wake for me!”: exotic wakes and contemporary marginality in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Inter·c·a·mbio Notebooks on Central America and the Caribbean 15(1):41-64. https://doi.org/10.15517/c.a..v16i1.36498