Ph.D., Cornell University (2009, English)
M.A., Boston College (2004, English)
Single-Subject Teaching Credential in English, California State University, San Bernardino (2001)
B.A., Vassar College (1997, English and Women's Studies)
Dr. Belinda Linn Rincón is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies and English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and specializes in Latinx literary and cultural studies. Her book Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture (2017, University of Arizona Press) examines the rise of neoliberal militarism from the early 1970s to the present through the lens of a Chicana feminist critique. She is the co-founder of the Biennial Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference and the co-founder of the Latinx Literature Minor – the first program of its kind to exist at CUNY. She is currently working on two projects that focus on Latinx love and horror.
Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture (University of Arizona Press, 2017)
“Home/land Insecurities, Or, un desmadre en Aztlán: Virginia Grise’s blu (2011),” Modern Fiction Studies, 63.2 (2017): 247-269.
“‘Estas son mis armas’: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Poetics of Feminist Solidarity in the Era of Neoliberal Militarism,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 51-69.
“Media, Militarism, and Mythologies of the State: The Latino Soldier in World War Two Films,” Latino Studies 9.2-3(Summer/Autumn 2011): 283-299.
“Warfare and Latina/o Social Movements,” (8,000 words), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Volume Editor Louis Mendoza; Associate Editors: Arturo Arias, Raúl Coronado, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Ben V. Olguín, and Sandra Soto, New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
2nd Place Winner of the 2018 Best Women’s Issues Book Award, International Latino Book Award, Latino Literacy Now for Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture, University of Arizona Press, 2017
Winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize for best essay published in 2014 by an untenured female professor, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies for “‘Estas son mis armas’: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Poetics of Feminist Solidarity in the Era of Neoliberal Militarism,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 51-69.
Faculty Scholarly Excellence Award, John Jay College, 2018
Outstanding Scholarly Mentoring Award, John Jay College, 2016
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council, 2014-2015