Jaime Acosta Gonzalez

about

Jaime Acosta Gonzalez is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside (AY 2025-2027). Most recently, he was Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Latin American Studies at UCR, where he is also a board member of the Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center (LLSRC). Since arriving in 2022, he has facilitated the Theory and Philosophy Workshop and organized yearly film programming on campus. He was previously Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University in African and African American Studies, where he was coordinator of the Global Blackness Working Group.

Before completing his Ph.D. at Duke in the Program in Literature, Jaime studied at Victor Valley College (A.A., Liberal Arts) and the University of California, Riverside (B.A., English, summa cum laude). He has co-edited a special issue of Polygraph: An International Journal on Culture and Politics on the theme of “Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction.” His work has also appeared in Social Text, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Cultural Dynamics and Jacobin.

His research focuses on the politics of aesthetics, thinking through how art and literature make visible processes of racialization and accumulation central to the historical development of capitalism.

As a scholar/activist rooted in the Inland Empire and member of the Shut Down Adelanto Coalition, he has participated in political programming and social movements to defend immigrant communities, stop the expansion of for-profit detention facilities and transition away from carceral solutions that disproportionately impact immigrants and working class people of color.

For all inquiries, please contact via email at jgonz052@ucr.edu.