Jennifer Gomez Menjivar

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2023). Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America. SUNY Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Ramos Flores, H. (2022). Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2022). Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone. Vanderbilt University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Chacon, G.E. (2019). Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America. University of Arizona Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon, W.N. (2018). Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize. University of North Carolina Press.

Book Chapter

• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2025). Coda: Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media. Undisciplining Latinx Comics & Visual Culture: Pedagogical, Theoretical, and Aesthetic Approaches. Rutgers University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2024). Animation in Latin America. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2023). Tangible Afro-Indigenous Heritage: Land and Sea in Garifuna in Peril. New Central American Film: Twenty-First Century Trends, Genres, and Themes. University Press of Florida.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2022). Black Power in Central American Writing. Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context. 161-171. New York, NY, Modern Language Association.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2022). Black Writing on the Latin American Mainland: Disruptions to the Prose of Multiculturalism. Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone. 1-24. Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Ramos Flores, H. (2022). Introduction. A Black Transcontinental Movement for the Future. Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability. 3-21. Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2022). Triunfo de la Cruz vs. Honduras: Garifuna Land under International Law. Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability. 120-133. Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2022). Xiomara Cacho Caballero: Linguistic Heritage and Afro-Indigenous Survivance on Roatán. Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone. 170-193. Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2022). Indigenous Online. Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development. 457-467. Oxford and New York, Routledge.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Chacon, G.E. (2019). No Static: Re-Indigenizing Technology. Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America. 3-30. University of Arizona Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Gates, Jr., H., Franklin W., K. (2016). Eva Ayllón (Peru). Dictionary of Caribbean and Latin American Biography. 168-170. Oxford University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Gates Jr , H., Knight , F. (2016). Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Cuba). Dictionary of Caribbean and Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Gates Jr., H., Knight , F. (2016). June Beer (Nicaragua). Dictionary of Caribbean and Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Gates Jr., H., Knight , F. (2016). Leela Vernon (Belize). Dictionary of Caribbean and Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Gates Jr., H., Knight , F. (2016). Wilfred "Mr. Peters" Peters (Belize). Dictionary of Caribbean and Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2015). Spanglish in the Classroom: A Linguistic Approach to Code-Switching in Latina/o Literature. Latina/o Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching. 41-50. Routledge.

Critical Review

• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2024). Problemista: A Surrealist Venture into the Immigration Complex. Latinx Pop Magazine.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2024). Echo's Resounding Force. UNT Comics Studies Blog.

Journal Article

• Hearne , J., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2025). Spotlight: Indigenous Media Caucus. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 64 (2) 1–5.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2024). Salvadoran civil war replay: the affective strategies of joy and play in Voces inocentes. Latino Studies. 22 (4) 724-740. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85210470532
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2019). Caribbean Queens: Bridges of the World of the Living and the Ream of Souls. Romance Notes. 59 (1) 207-218.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2018). Moises Serrano’s Forbidden [Documentary]: A North Carolinian DREAMer’s Twist on Chicanx Memoir, Testimonio, and Geography. 54-62. NAACS Annual Conference Proceedings.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon, W. (2018). Mopan in Context: Mayan Identity, Belizean Citizenship, and the Future of a Language. NAIS. 5 (2) 50-70.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2018). Negro, letrado y filósofo: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua y su Biografía [1854]. Hispanófila. 184 5-21.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2018). Redes garífunas insurgentes: derechos culturales y derechos a la comunicación desde los espacios virtuales [Insurgent Garifuna Networks: Cultural and Communication Rights within Virtual Spaces]. Istmo: revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. 37 172-189.
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon , W. (2017). Attitudes and Endangerment in a Maya Mopan Community. 52 253-266. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society.
• Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2017). Setting and Language Attitudes in a Creole Context. Applied Linguistics. 40 (2) 248-264.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2017). Straight Outta Livingston: Black Indigeneity, Wordsmithing, and Code-Switching in Wingston González's Poetry. 7 (1) 124-145. Transmodernity.
• Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2016). Language Attitudes and Varieties of Kriol in Belize City and Punta Gorda. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 31 (2) 316-360.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2016). Passing into Fictions: Blackness, Writing, and Power in the Captaincy of Guatemala. Chasqui. 45 (1) 97-112.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2016). Perfiles culturales negros: África y la negritud en la obra temprana dariana (Black Cultural Profiles: Africa and Blackness in Darío's Early Poetry). Mesoamérica: una revista multidisciplinaria. 58 22-39.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2016). Precious Water, Priceless Words: Fluidity and Mayan Experience on the Guatemala-Belize Border. Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal. 19 (1) 23-32.
• Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2016). Language variation and dimensions of prestige in Belizean Kriol. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 31 (2) 316-360. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.31.2.04sal
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2015). In These Neoliberal Times: Blackness and the Costa Rican Multicultural Nation. 4 1-25. Alter/nativas: Latin American Cultural Studies Journal.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2015). The Black Panamanian-Jamaican Connection: Imperialism, Race, and Class in Demetrio Aguilera Malta's Canal Zone. 13 (1) 262-271. A Contracorriente.
• Salmon, W., Gomez Menjivar, J. (2014). Whose Kriol is Moa Beta? Prestige and Dialects of Kriol in Belize. Other. Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 40 456-479. Linguistic Society of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v40i0.3153
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2012). Feast Your Eyes on This: A Gourmand Explores the Culinary Delights of Seventeenth-Century Guatemala. Cincinnati Romance Review. 33 145-163.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2012). Novel Reconciliations: The Discourses of Oppression, Feminism, and Nation in Calypso and Limon Blues. 15 124-131. Hipertexto.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2009). 'De tal palo, tal astilla': la huella de la memoria en Obabakoak y su adaptación cinematográfica, Obaba ('The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree': Memory in Obabakoak and its Film Adaptation, Obaba). 13-22. Divergencias: revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios.
• Gomez Menjivar, J. (2009). Desde la periferia a la casa grande: la inversion de la mirada etnográfica en Balún Canán (From the Periphery to the Big House: The Reversal of the Ethnographic Gaze in Balún Canán). Letras Hispanas. 6 (2) 123-126.
• Saetermoe , C., Gomez Menjivar, J., Bamaca, M., Gallardo , C. (2004). A Qualitative Enquiry of Caregivers of Adolescents with Severe Disabilities in Guatemala City. Disability and Rehabilitation. 26 1032-1047.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Gomez Menjivar, J. (Principal), "Senior Research Fellowship: Temporal Communities Cluster of Excellence, Research Area 5 “Building Digital Communities.”," sponsored by Freie Universität Berlin, International, $5000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).

Grant - Service

• Gomez Menjivar, J. (Principal), "Individual Mentoring Grant," sponsored by Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
• Gomez Menjivar, J., Salmon, W.N., "Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund Award.," University of North Texas, $2000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

Grant - Teaching

• Gomez Menjivar, J., "David J. Peterson: CLASS Small Grant," sponsored by CLASS, University of North Texas, $250 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
• Gomez Menjivar, J., "David J. Peterson: Speaker Related to the Curriculum," sponsored by Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund, University of North Texas, $1738 Funded. (2022 - 2023).