Dr. Jennifer Ponce de León is an interdisciplinary scholar who writes about Left cultural production and movements in the Americas and Marxist and anticolonial thought. She is the author of Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke University Press, 2021) and her essays have been published in journals such as American Quarterly, Philosophy Today, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, and ASAP/Journal. She co-authored with Gabriel Rockhill the Introduction to the English edition of Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn (Monthly Review, 2024), and is co-editing a special issue on Losurdo for International Critical Thought. She is co-editor with Richard T. Rodriguez and Randall Williams of the forthcoming volume Puto and Other Plays by Ricardo A. Bracho, and she is currently co-editing the anthology Raza Marxisms with Ben Olguín and Jaime Gonzalez.

Dr. Ponce de León is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies and a member of the graduate groups in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies. She is Associate Director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique, an educational non-profit that organizes public lectures and holds an annual summer school in Paris and online. She is co-editor of the Anti-Imperialist Marxism book series for Iskra Books/Critical Theory Workshop.