Dr. Angela Marino's teaching and research concentrates on performance and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. She also leads an interdisciplinary research initiative called the Critical Perspectives on Democracy and Media (D+M Lab), which focuses on policy analysis, popular education, and art production in the Americas. See demoxmedia.org.
Among publications, please see Dr. Marino’s article in Latin American Perspectives on theater arts in Caracas (2025), and her book Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela with Northwestern University Press (2018). Both of these peer reviewed publications draw attention to theater, film, and popular festivals as formational to 21st century participatory democracy, providing a much needed alternative to the failures of U.S. representative democracy under monopoly capitalism. Marino is also co-editor of the book Festive Devils of the Americas (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015), which traces the figure of the devil through festivals, carnivals and popular religious manifestations as living archives of resistance. She is currently working on a manuscript for a new book on festivals and governance.
More information on teaching, research projects, and publications can be found at AngelaMarino.net.
Education:
Ph.D. in Spanish and Performance Studies, New York University, 2010
M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 2006
Performance and Political Theory
Fiesta and Carnival
Popular Performance
Theater History
U.S. Latinx and Latin American Studies