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ERNESTo Javier MARTINEZ

Writer, Scholar, & Educator

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Work
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Best Short Film - LONG BEACH QUEER FILM
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BEST SHORT FILM - La Frontera Queer Film Fest - 2019 (2).png
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The
Award
Winning

Children's
Book

Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez

Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

Translated by Jorge Gabriel Martínez Feliciano


Children's
Educational
Television
Writing

Sample Projects

DANIEL VISITS A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD:
THE MOVIE
 
(44 min | PBS Kids | 2022)
Written by Jill Turner and Ernesto Javier Martínez

"MUSICAL SHOW AND SHARE"
(3 min | Sesame Street | 2022)
Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez

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ON MAKING SENSE

Academic
Books

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Gay Latino Studies
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The Truly Diverse Faculty
SCHOLARSHIP

About

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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. 

 

His work—both academic and artistic—explores how racially and sexually marginalized communities in the United States use literature, art, and film to produce knowledge about their lives despite being subjected to forms of violence that distort their reality and that challenge their credibility as knowers.

His academic writing has appeared in journals such as PMLA, Signs, Aztlán, and the International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations. He is also the author of On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility (Stanford UP, 2012), as well as the co-editor of Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader (Duke UP, 2011) and The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education (Palgrave, 2014).

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.

Martínez currently serves as the Department Head of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES) at the University of Oregon. Previously, he has served as the Co-Chair of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS) and as a member of the Coordinating Team for the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) research project.

 

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, and the University of Oregon's Faculty Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Association for Latino Independent Producers (NALIP).

 

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