Rosita Scerbo
Assistant Professor Africana Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, World Languages & Cultures- Education
Ph.D., Latin American Visual Studies-Arizona State University
Professional Certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center-Harvard University
Digital Humanities Pedagogy Certification - Institute for Humanities Research- Arizona State University
Certificate in Online Education & Course Design- Arizona State University Online
- Specializations
Digital Humanities Theory & Methods
Instructional Technology
Critical Visual Literacy
Diasporic Visual & Digital Cultures
Intersectional and Transnational Feminisms
Contemporary Cultural Aesthetics of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women
- Biography
Rosita Scerbo is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Digital Cultures in the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University. She is also affiliate faculty in the Department of Africana Studies. Her research and teaching examine the intersections of visual and digital culture, focusing on how photography, performance, painting, muralism, digital art, and emerging technologies mediate cultural identity, embodiment, and representation. She explores how these visual forms engage with and respond to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and video games, highlighting the role of visual culture in shaping contemporary understandings of identity, memory, visibility, belonging, and mediated presence.
Dr. Scerbo is the author of three books: Gendered Aesthetics of Blackness: Afro-Cuban Women’s Visual Art and Activism (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures series, 2025); The Afro-descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art (Routledge, Routledge Research in Art and Race series, 2024); and Latinas en los márgenes. QueerARTivismo y TRANSdisciplinariedad: hacia una politización de la autobiografía visual de mujeres invisibles (Peter Lang, Hispano-Americana series, 2021). She is also the co-editor and contributing author of AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective (Lexington Books, Critical Africana Studies series, 2022). Dr. Scerbo is currently working on her fourth book, tentatively titled Bridging Afro-Hispanic Caribbean Femininity: Water Art and Digital Visualities of Black Border-Islanders.
- Publications
Books (peer-reviewed)
Sole author
1. LATINAS ON THE MARGINS. QueerARTivism and TRANSdisciplinarity: Towards a Politicization of the Visual Autobiography of Invisible Women/LATINAS EN LOS MÁRGENES. QueerARTivismo y TRANSdisciplinariedad: hacia una politización de la autobiografía visual de mujeres invisibles. Peter Lang. International Academic Publishers, series Hispano-Americana. March 2021.
2. The Afro-descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art. Routledge, series Routledge Research in Art and Race. July 5th, 2024.
3. GENDERED AESTHETICS OF BLACKNESS: Afro-Cuban Women's Visual Art and Activim, SUNY Press, series Afro-Latinx Futures. In production, expected July 2025.
4. Imágenes de afro-resistencia: Insurgencias feministas y decoloniales en las artes visuales de mujeres afrodescedientes/ Images of Afro-Resistance: Feminist and Decolonial Insurgencies in the Visual Arts of Women of African Descent. Icesi University Press, Center for Afrodiasporic Studies (CEAF), Cali, Colombia. In production, expected Fall 2025.Edited collection
1. AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective. Eds. Rosita Scerbo & Concetta Bondi. Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, series Critical Africana Studies, Fall 2022.In progress
1. Bridging Afro-Hispanic Caribbean Femininity: Water Art and Visualities of Black Border Islanders. Preliminary proposal approved for the series Visualidades: Studies in Latin American Visual History. Invited to submit entire manuscript, University of Texas Press.
2. Dissident Identities: Afro-Queer New Media, Visual Arts, and Performance in the Hispanic Caribbean. Eds. Rosita Scerbo & Anastasia Valecce (Spelman College), forthcoming.Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)
1. “The Unseen Cancerous Body: Challenging the Normative Eroticized Breast in the Photo Book Recursos humanos (2000) by Gabriela Liffschitz”. The Other Fridas: The Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists, edited by Luciana Namorato, Debora Thome, and Joao Nemi, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., Spring 2025.
2. “Teaching Intersectionality in Social Psychology: Understanding the Complexities of Identity”. Chapter 11. Teaching Social Psychology, edited by Rebecca Totton and Catherine Sanderson, Elgar Guides to Teaching, August, 2024, pp. 134-148. (co-authored with Dr. Lupita Gonzales)
3. "Reimagining Black Femininity: Afro-Latina’s Decolonial Aesthetics and AfroARTivism". Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, edited by L. Ayu Saraswati, Barbara L. Shaw, and Heather Rellihan, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, forthcoming, Fall 2025.
4. “The Untold Story of Black Mexico: Uncovering the Identity of the Afro-descendent Woman in the Photography of Koral Carballo y Mara Sánchez Renero”. Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity, edited by Radmila Stefkova and Julia Brown, Routledge, series Routledge Research in Gender and Art, February 27, 2024, pp148-163.
5. “Silent Beauty Unveiled: Confronting Generational Trauma and Finding Healing in Jasmin Mara López's Autobiographical Documentary”. Y Yo También?: Latinas Respond to #MeToo, edited by Melissa Castillo Planas, Rutgers University Presses’ Global Race and Media Series, forthcoming, Fall 2025.
6. “Centering Black Women/Challenging Latinidad and Hegemonic Discourses”. AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective.Co-authored with Concetta Bondi, Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, series Critical Africana Studies, November, 2022.
7. "Digi-poesía y ciberfeminismo: una aproximación teórica a los hipertextos y poemas perfomáticos de Belén Gache." Transgresiones en las letras iberoamericanas: visiones del lenguaje poético. Transgressions in Ibero-American Letters: Visions of Poetic Language, edited by Laura Lopez Fernandez and Luis Mora-Ballesteros, Argus-a - Arte & Humanidades, November 2021.
8. “Re-imagining the Borderlands: Intersectionality and Transnational Queering of Laura Aguilar’ Self-Portrait ‘Three Eagles Flying’”. Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism, edited by Olga Bezhanova and Raysa Amador, Lexington Books, February 2021, pp.161-176.Articles in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals
1. "Water, Memory, and Diasporic Identities: The Subversion of Western Histories in María Magdalena Campos-Pons' Dreaming of an Island". The Black Scholar - Journal of Black Studies and Research, vol. 55, no. 2, Fall 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2025.2466394
2. "Revealing Diasporic Femininity: A Visual Chronicle of the Trauma of Separation and the Legacy of Enslavement in Susana Pilar’s Art". CRGS: The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Special issue, Gender Articulated: Visual Language and the Un/Seeable Self, Fall 2025.
3. "El arte visual como práctica feminista decolonial: feminidad negra y ARTivismo afrocubano en las pinturas de Harmonia Rosales" (Visual Art as a Decolonial Feminist Practice: Black Femininity and Afro-Cuban ARTivism in the Paintings of Harmonia Rosales), PerspectivasAfro, Journal of Afro Latin American and Afro Caribbean Studies. University of Cartagena, Colombia, vol, 3, no. 2, January-June 2024, pp. 385-404.
4. "Centering Black Women, Challenging Latinidad: Harmonia Rosales’ Black Decolonial Aesthetics and AfroARTivism”, Confluencia, vol.39, no. 2, Spring 2024, pp. 2-20.
5. “Bridging the Gap Between Literature and Visual Art: Reimagining Black Femininity Through an Ekphrastic Analysis of Harmonia Rosales' Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics”, Hispanic Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2023, pp.125-147.
6. "The Body as Real and Symbolic Territory: A Feminist and Queer Disability Theory Approach to the Photo Book Recursos humanos (2000) by Gabriela Liffschitz", Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Liverpool University Press, vol.11, no. 7 Fall 2023, pp. 723-738.
7. “Ciber arte e intervenciones autobiográficas de mujeres latinas en las humanidades digitales”. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, vol.21, no.2, Spring 2022.
8. “Ecoartivism in Times of Climate Change and Toxic Waste Emergencies: A Theoretical Perspective Through the Lens of ziREjA’s Photography and Performance Art”, Confluencia, vol. 36, no. 2, Spring 2021, pp.141-158.
9. "Recreating the Womb Space: The Unborn Narrator and the Female Body as a Site of Power Struggle in The Fourth World, by Diamela Eltit." Hispanófila,187, Fall 2020, p. 29-43.
10. “ARTivismo político y teoría queer: hacia una politización de la autobiografía femenina.”
Debate Feminista, vol. 59, Fall 2020, pp. 48-71.
11. Foster, David William; Scerbo, Rosita. “Magical Realism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, spring 2019.
12. “Construyamos ‘puentes’ en lugar de ‘muros’: Un análisis rizomático del desarrollo y post- establecimiento de la teoría de la Frontera de Gloria Anzaldúa.” Southwestern American Literature, vol. 43, no 2, spring 2018, pp. 11-29.
13. "Cultural Awareness & Mapping Pedagogical Tool: A Digital Representation of Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Theory". DH 2018: 498, dblp: computer science bibliography, spring 2018.Book Reviews
1. Rev. of Diaspora Café: DC, edited by Jeffrey Banks and Maritza Rivera, Afro-Hispanic Review, forthcoming (invited contribution).
2. Rev. of Afro-Latinx Digital Connections by Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana -Revista Iberoamericana, Fall 2022 (invited contribution).
3. Rev. of Shared Selves. Latinx Memoir & Ethnical Alternatives to Humanism by Suzanne Bost.
Feministas Unidas, Inc, Fall 2020 (invited contribution).Professional Translation
1. Trans. of "Lotería Afrolatina" (Spanish Version), California State San Bernardino (CSUSB), Anthropology Museum, Afróntalo exhibition, Spring 2024 (invited contribution).
Signed Encyclopedia Contributions/Articles
1. “Ana María Shua” (Argentine Writer) In Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Ed. Jennifer Santori, Spring 2021. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia (invited contribution).
2. “Reina Roffé” (Argentine Writer) In Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Ed. Jennifer Santori, Fall 2020. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia (invited contribution).