Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Editor, Journal of Folklore Research
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Monographs
Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Colombia University Press, 2020. Winner of the 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions.
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010.
Edited Collections
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches, co-edited with Mintzi Martínez-Rivera, Indiana University Press, 2021.
Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, co-edited with Toyin Falola. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2013.
Recent Publications
"Juramentos and Firmas: Narrating Assemblages in Afro-Cuban Religions,” co-authored with Kristina Wirtz, Narrative Culture, (Spring 2024)11.1: 51-75.
Otero, Solimar. “Gender in Caribbean Religions,” The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions, ed. Michelle González Maldonado. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 321-334.
Otero, Solimar and Kristina Wirtz. “Subversive spirits and ostentatious materials: An African diasporic necropolitics of agitation,” American Religion, Fall 2023, 5(1):11-32.
"Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community", Journal of American Folklore 2022, 135 (536): 230-238.
"Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folklorists and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms", co-authors Mintzi Martínez-Rivera and Rachel González, Journal of American Folklore, special issue Latinx Folklore: Transnational WOC Feminist Perspecitves, Spring 2022, 135 (536): 131-141.
Indiana University Presidential Arts and Humanities Award for the Spanish Translation of Archives of Conjure by Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2024.
The College of Arts