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.
Bio (500 words)
Ernesto Javier Martínez was raised in Oakland, California and Jalisco, México. He is the queer son of an immigrant Mexican father and an island-born, Bay Area raised Puerto Rican mother. He studied literature at Stanford and Cornell, becoming a university professor at the age of 28. He has published three academic books: On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility (Stanford UP), Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, edited with Michael Hames-García (Duke UP), and The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education, edited with Stephanie Fryberg (Palgrave Press).
Ernesto pivoted toward artistic work when he collaborated with San Francisco-based illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez, authoring Cuando Amamos Cantamos/When We Love Someone, We Sing to Them, the first bilingual children’s book published in North America about a boy who loves a boy. This book earned two International Latino Book Awards and was selected for the American Library Association's “Rainbow Book List." He began working as a screenwriter and filmmaker when he collaborated with Los Angeles-based director Adelina Anthony, writing and producing his first short film, La Serenata, winner of 11 best film awards and distributed by HBO Max. He went on to become a Sesame Workshop Writer's Room Fellow, apprenticing in children's educational television and eventually writing for shows like Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and Lyla in the Loop. He is best known for co-writing, with Jill Turner, the animated kids’ movie Daniel Visits a New Neighborhood: The Movie (PBS Kids), which introduces a new Latinx family to the Emmy award-winning Daniel Tiger franchise. The movie reached over 2 million people in its initial TV broadcast, and over the course of three weeks, streaming of the film totaled over 15 million. It was the highest rated “tentpole” film among kids 2-8, since March of 2020, for PBS Kids. Ernesto is currently working with Adelina Anthony on his first indie feature film, which is currently in postproduction.
Ernesto is the recipient of the national Lambda Literary Award, Imagen Award (commonly known as the "Latin Golden Globes"), HBO Latinx Film Competition Award, two International Latino Book Awards, NALAC Artist Grant, Spark Award for Oregon Artists. At the University of Oregon, he has received the Provost's Faculty Excellence Award, the UO Foundation Trustee Excellence Award, and the Collegiate Faculty Award (the highest honor bestowed to faculty by the College of Arts and Sciences). He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Association for Latino Independent Producers (NALIP).
Ernesto lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he works as Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES) at the University of Oregon.
