Christopher Michael Perreira, Ph.D.
International & Interdisciplinary Studies - American StudiesAssistant Professor
cperreira@ku.edu
Primary office:
785.864.1980
213J Bailey Hall
University of Kansas
1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
Christopher Perreira’s research and teaching specialize in examining the intersections of power, race, and criminality within medicine; critical ethnic studies; Chicana/o/x cultural studies; race and the environment; and speculative arts and cultures. He studied as an undergraduate at San Diego City College and UC San Diego before earning his M.A. in English at the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. A Visiting Researcher at UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center in 2017-2018, he has received fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society.
Professor Perreira has published essays in the edited volumes Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press 2019) and Latinx Environmentalisms: Justice, Place, and the Decolonial (Temple University Press forthcoming). His essays and reviews have been published in Journal of Transnational American Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, American Quarterly, and English Language Notes. Dr. Perreira's book, Manufacturing Prisoner-Patient Consent: Race, Memory, and Violence in the Medical Archive (under contract with University of Minnesota Press), examines critical memory and histories of race and criminality in science, medicine, and technology.
Teaching Interests
- American Studies
- Ethnic Studies
- Critical Prison Studies
- Chicana/o Cultural Studies
- Speculative Fiction
Research Interests
- Chicano/a and Latino/a Literature and Culture
- U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literatures
- Critical Prison Studies
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
- Speculative Fiction
