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John Kennedy Godoy received his PhD in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature from Cornell University. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, Routledge, andLatin American Literary Review, among others. His community-oriented projects have been featured in People en Español, the Los Angeles Times, and other outlets.

 

He is currently developing two manuscripts. The first focuses on unaccompanied childhood narratives, particularly in U.S. Central American and Mexican American literature. It examines how asylum procedures and policies shape narratological and media representations of unaccompanied migrant children and explores modes of re-accompaniment or acompañamiento in U.S. Central American literature and art. It centers the figure of the unaccompanied child through human rights documentation, literature, film, photojournalism, and asylum protocol and history. His second manuscript examines transborder poetics from Indigenous Maya, Garifuna, Zoque, and Binnizá writers, addressing histories of displacement, extractivism, knowledge, and ethics in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, and Honduras.

 

John works with graduate students in Critical Indigenous Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, and related subfields, as well as environmental and public humanities and comparative literature.