Itzayana Gutiérrez Arillo

Biography

Itzayana Gutiérrez Arillo is a historian, curator, and postdoctoral fellow in Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. They are currently developing a postdoctoral research project titled The Yellow Trouble: Anti-Asian Racism and the Pan American Comic Magazine, 1935-1950, which focuses on internationally coordinated graphic campaigns to shine light on problems of mobility of images, multilocal partnership, circulation, and translation.

Gutierrez’ research has focused on modern print culture and how industrial graphic forms such as comic strips and comic magazines have the possibility of racial violence built into them, queer underground printed ephemera such as postcards and flyers and the tensions of transcultural belonging and nightlife, as well as material culture and the ethnohistoric relationships between Asia and Latin America, from the 16th to 19th century.

This includes publications on media history of the anti-Asian aesthetics Comic Strips, Phantasmagoria and Fantasy (forthcoming), “Remediating Kalimán: Digital Evolutions of Eugenic Agents” (Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas), the digital exhibit “Swaggering Resonance / Résonance Bravache” for Cabaret Commons, and the exhibit “Tornaviaje, La Nao de China y el Barroco en México 1565-1815” for Museo Barroco Internacional.

They hold a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University, and a Master’s and Bachelor’s in History from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), respectively.