John Petrus
John Petrus received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2015. His dissertation project, entitled 鈥淒ragging Down Hegemony: Gender Transgression in Contemporary Managua", addresses how traditional gender roles and heteronormativity are being questioned and protested in contemporary Nicaragua through a variety of audio-visual cultural interventions. His current research project focuses on gender transgression in the Central American diaspora as well as multi-media representations of sexual and racial difference related to the AIDS crisis in US Latin@ communities.
Recent Conference Presentations:
鈥淒evenir Torovenado: Performing and Re-thinking Indigenous Tradition and Diversidad Sexual,鈥 AILCFH (Asociaci贸n Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hisp谩nica) 2015 Annual Conference
聽鈥淒ocumentary Impulse, Third Cinema, and Queer Cinema,鈥 14th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference
Selected Publications
鈥淚nternational News Network: Un an谩lisis de transgresiones de g茅nero en la producci贸n audio鈥恦isual nicarag眉ense鈥 In: Revista de Historia. No. 29 September鈥怐ecember, 2013. Managua: IHNCA鈥怳CA (Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroam茅rica鈥 Universidad Centroamericana).