Miguel Cabanas

Associate Professor

Miguel A. Cabañas is Associate Professor of Latin American, Global (GSAH) and Chicano/Latino Studies (CLS) at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Cultural “Other” in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives: How the United States and Latin America Described Each Other (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). His research focuses on travel literature, Latin American and North American literatures and cultures. He also co-edited a book on The Politics of Travel for Routledge. 

In 2008-2009, he was Co-Director of Peace and Justice Studies at MSU. In 2014, he edited a special issue for Latin American Perspectives entitled Imagined Narcoscapes: Narco-Culture, and the Politics of Representation. His research foci include Latinx travel literature, transnational narcocorridos, Latin/x American films, and telenovelas. His current monographic project has an emphasis in film and telenovelas that deal with the ideology of the war on drugs.