Dr. Ever E. Osorio is an interdisciplinary scholar of Latin America, media, social movements, and feminisms. Born and raised in Mexico, she holds a Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University with a Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Her book project, The Violet Spring: Poetics and Technologies of Mexican Feminisms, examines social mobilizations in response to gender violence that gave rise to mass protests across Mexico in the 21st century. Dr. Osorio argues that women’s writing was the central component for the regeneration of social bonds and for the building of citizenship in a moment of political crisis. Her work historicizes the political encounter of writing, an old technology, with the rise of digital media to reveal how civic participation and social movements are configured in the 21st century. She contends that to understand the social effervescence and forms of organization of contemporary social justice movements, a thorough and attentive reading to people’s writing is essential.
Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Osorio was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Amherst College and a Research Associate Fellow at the Five College Women Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. From 2022 to 2023, she was a Diversity Predoctoral Fellow at the MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Program in Women and Gender Studies.
Dr. Osorio worked as a journalist specializing in arts and culture, social justice, and women and gender topics. She also worked in the federal government in Mexico and as a communications and cultural affairs consultant.
Degrees
- PhD, American Studies, Yale University
- MA, American and African American Studies, Yale University
- MA, Politics, The New School for Social Research
- MA, Communication, Universidad Iberoamericana
- BA, International Relations and Literature, Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 2024, Osorio, Ever, “ ‘Is It licit to Eat Human Flesh?’: Ancient Emotions and the Making of the Colonial Order,” Huellas. Spanish Journal on Slavery, Colonialism, Resistances and Legacies.
- 2023, Osorio, Ever, “Contar el feminicidio en México: periodismo y literatura feministas en el siglo XXI,” Badebec. Revista del Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria 13, no. 25 (2023): 200-224. https://doi.org/10.35305/b.v13i25.620
- 2022, "The Afterlives of #MeToo: A Roundtable Discussion with Māhealani Ahia, Michelle Cho, Pallavi Guha, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Kahala Johnson, and Ever E. Osorio." Biography 45, no. 4 (2022): 537-560. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2022.a910384
- 2019, Osorio Ever and Oliver Arellano, “Populism, Design & Ideology,” Plot(s): Journal of Design Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, (2019): 50-60.
Book Chapters
- 2024, Osorio, Ever, “Contemporary Feminisms in Mexico: #Miprimeracoso and #Metoo” in Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean Edited by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien, University of Michigan Press (2024). https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12587385
Public Writing
- Osorio, Ever “Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide: How do we reconcile these coexisting realities?,” Public Seminar, November 11, 2024.
- Osorio, Ever, “Understanding the Weave, Undoing the Seams: A Roundtable Conversation at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center,” Revisiting WOMAN: AN ISSUE, The Massachusetts Review, vol. 6, issue 4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a9149122024.
Areas of Specialization
- Critical Media Studies
- Latin American Political Thought
- Feminist Theories
- Affect, Performance and Social Movements
- Latinx Studies
- Digital Ethnography and Humanities