Natalie Havlin

Faculty Fellow

Natalie Havlin received a PhD in English and a Graduate Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College at CUNY. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, race, and theories of coalition-building in Latina/o cultural production since the early 20th century. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Feeling Movements: Race and the Affective Politics of Alliance in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production, which theorizes the role of affect in portrayals of intra-ethnic and interracial alliances by Latina/o cultural workers and their collaborators from the 1920s to the 1980s in New York City and San Francisco. During the CPCP fellowship, she is completing a book chapter analyzing the writing and radical social movement work of Chicana feminist Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martínez

Participating Years

2016–2017

Consciousness and Revolution

The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?