Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
Eds. Michael Hames-García & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822349556
2011 | Edited Volume
The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies.
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
EDS., Stephanie Fryberg & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Palgrave Press
ISBN 978-1137456052
2014 | Edited Volume
"The Truly Diverse Faculty will be the 'go to' book for university leaders who aspire to create, nurture, and sustain a diverse faculty but who too frequently fail to grasp what that goal requires of our higher education institutions." -- Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Michigan
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
EDS., Stephanie Fryberg & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Palgrave Press
ISBN 978-1137456052
2014 | Edited Volume
"The Truly Diverse Faculty will be the 'go to' book for university leaders who aspire to create, nurture, and sustain a diverse faculty but who too frequently fail to grasp what that goal requires of our higher education institutions." -- Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Michigan
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
By Ernesto Javier Martínez
Stanford University Press
ISBN 978-0804783408
2012 | Monograph
On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
By Ernesto Javier Martínez
Stanford University Press
ISBN 978-0804783408
2012 | Monograph
On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
.png)
THE AWARD-WINNING SHORT FILM
WRITTEN BY ERNESTO JAVIER MARTINEZ
DIRECTED BY ADELINA ANTHONY
LA SERENATA
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
%20(1).png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
CHILDREN'S TELEVISION (Sample Work)
DANIEL VISITS A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD
(TV MOVIE)
(44 min | PBS Kids | 2022)
Written by Jill Turner and Ernesto Javier Martínez
CLIPS FROM THE TV MOVIE:
"MUSICAL SHOW AND SHARE"
(Digital Episode)
(3 min | Sesame Street | 2022)
Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez
ACADEMIC BOOKS
On Making Sense
Gay Latino Studies
The Truly Diverse Faculty
NEWS
BIO
Photo: Edwin Pagan
Dr. Ernesto Javier Martínez (he/him/el) is an interdisciplinary literary critic, an award-winning writer, and a professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES) at the University of Oregon.
He studied literature at Stanford and Cornell, and his creative work explores Latinx culture through the eyes of LGBTQ+ youth. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lambda Literary Award, the Imagen Award, the HBO Latinx Film Competition Award, the International Latino Book Award, the NALAC Artist Grant, the NALIP Media Market Fellowship, and the University of Oregon's Faculty Excellence Award.
In 2018, Martínez published When We Love Someone We Sing to Them, the first bilingual children’s book published in the US about a boy who loves a boy. In 2019, he wrote and co-produced the live action short film La Serenata (“The Serenade”), which premiered in Hollywood, won numerous best film awards, and was licensed by HBO Max. In 2020, Martínez became a Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room Fellow and began freelancing in children’s media. He is the co-writer, with Jill Turner, of the animated feature film Daniel Visits a New Neighborhood, which premiered on PBS Kids in June, 2022.