Profiles/Interviews (General)

Tatiana Pérez Rivera, “The art came from her,”
El Nuevo Día, April 3, 2009.
To read the interview, please click here.

Tatiana Pérez Rivera, “La forma de contar el cuento puede generar
hostilidad o resolución,” El Nuevo Dia, December 29, 2008.
To read the interview, please click here.

Manuel Clavell, “Frances Negrón-Muntaner: Artista de la imagen y de la palabra,” El Nuevo Día, Sunday Magazine (October 16, 2005): 6-7.

“The 100 Influentials,” Hispanic Business Magazine (October 2005): 62.

Celeste Fraser Delgado, “Puerto Rican Pullout,” Miami New Times (August 7-13, 2003): 12-15, 17, 21-22, 25-26, 28, 31.

Elisha María Miranda, “Field Report: Puerto Rico,” The Independent (May 2003): 23-26.

Charles Cotayo, "Latinas detrás de las cámaras," El Nuevo Herald (August 11, 2000): 1C-2C.

LoAnn Holden, "Polymorphous Pictures: Creating a New Breed of Gay and Latin Films," TWN (June 29, 2000): 10-11.

Jim Mendiola, "With cameras in the their hands: Latino filmmakers reinvent crossover dreams," The San Francisco Bay Guardian (June 2, 1999): 40, 43.

Gudula Meinzolt, "Latino Cinema in den USA," Catalogue (Germany: Freiburger Film Forum, 1999): 15-16.

Judith Redding and Victoria Brownworth, "Frances Negrón-Muntaner: The Politics of Identity, Part I," Film Fatales (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 1997): 99-102.

Natalia de Cuba, "Fearless Filmmaking," The San Juan Star (Nov.  25, 1997): 5-6.

Michael T. Martin, New Latin American Cinema: Theory, Practices and
Transcontinental Articulations (Detroit, MI: State University, 1997).

Elfrieda Abbe, "Creating Images Where There Were None," Angles, Vol. 3, No. 2,
(1997): 8-12.

Dinah E. Rodríguez, "Un cine sospechoso: Conversación con Frances Negrón-Muntaner," Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Year 23, No. 45 (1997): 411-419.

Sarah Miller, "Images of Home," Philadelphia Weekly (Sept. 11, 1996): 11-13.

Joyce Mullins, "Diversity on Celluloid," Au Courant (July 9-15, 1996): 11, 13.

Héctor Iván Monclova, "Frances Negrón: La realizadora y las muchas voces," Diálogo (January 1996): 32.

"Fifty Names to Remember," Seven Arts (December 1995): 27-37, 43-48.

Ed Voves, "Question of home hits her where she lives," The Daily News (September 26, 1995): 23.

Juan Carlos Pérez, "Cómo Frances Negrón brincó el charco," El Nuevo Herald (August 8, 1995): 1C-2C.

Judith Reading, "An Inside Look at the World of Filmmaker Frances Negrón Muntaner," Deneuve (July/August 1995): 21, 42.

Tanya Barrientos, "If filmmaking doesn't pan out, she can always get a Ph.D.," The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 14, 1995): E1, E6.

Rick Kearns, "Boricua Filmmaker Frances Negrón," El Hispano (May 18-24, 1995), 8.

Eils Latozo, "Whitney Honors Local Film Artists: But will it stimulate investor interest?" Welcomat (May 10, 1995): 25, 27.

Amy Lonsdorf, "Film Director 'Portrait' part of 'Conversation' at Open Space," The Morning Call (March 25, 1995): 66.

Carlos Rodríguez-Matos, "Frances Negrón-Muntaner," in David William Foster, ed., Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes" (Westsport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994): 288-290.

J.O. O'Connor, "Filmmaker: Frances Negrón-Muntaner," Labyrinth (December 1994): 5.

Francisco González, "Latino Media," Latino Collaborative News (Jan-Feb. 1993): 1.

Shilpa Mehta, "Frances Negrón-Muntaner: Filmmaker/Writer," The Advocate
(February 11, 1992): 48.



About None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (2007, anthology)

Rubén Ríos Avila, “None of the above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era,” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (May 2008): 247-249.

Miguel Rodríguez Casellas, "Feeling so good about feeling so bad, o la felicidad del hipocondríaco", Diálogo (Agosto, 2007).



About For the Record and Regarding Vieques (2007, television documentaries)

Ric Eusebio, “Filmmaker portrays Father Duenas,” Triton’s Call (Guam), (November 1, 2002): 1, 3.

Juan Carlos Pérez, "Un documental para la historia," El Nuevo Herald (July 17, 1997): 3A.



About Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture  (2004, book)

Elizabeth Garcia, Review of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture by Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Year XIX, No. 1, Centro Journal (2007): 397-400

Colin Gunckel, "Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture," Film Quarterly Vol. 61 (Fall 2007): 76-77.

Halbert Barton, “Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture, by Frances Negrón-Muntaner,” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG), Vol. 80, No. 1 and 2, 2006.

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, “Review,” Revista Iberoamericana, No. 72.215-216 (April-June 2006): 699-712.

Rafael Ocasio, "Review: Boricua Pop," South Atlantic Review, Vol. 70, No.3 (Spring 2005).

Phil Samponaro, “Review,” The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 38, No. 6 (November 2005): Page 1127.

Jorge Duany, "The Rough Edges of Puerto Rican Identities: Race, Gender, and Transnationalism,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2005): 177-190.

Judith Escalona, “Reviews,” New York Daily News, VIVA Magazine (April 2004).



About Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (1997, anthology)

Hazel Smith, "Review," The Ethnic Conflict Reader Digest (1999): 48.

James L. Dietz, "Review," Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 5 (1998): 521-522.

Jorge Duany, "Después de la modernidad: Debates contemporáneos sobre cultura y política en Puerto Rico," Revista de Ciencias Sociales, No. 5 (1998): 218-241.

Carmen Dolores Hernández, "Y continúa el debate," El Nuevo Día (April 26, 1998), 16.

Eliseo Cardona, "Puerto Rican Jam," El Nuevo Herald (September 17, 1997), 1D.



About La estadidad radical or Radical Statehood (1997)

Chris Mooney, "Status Anxiety in San Juan," Lingua Franca, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2001): 50-58

Frances Negrón-Muntaner, "What is 'radical statehood' for Puerto Rico," The San Juan Star (March 23, 1998): 95.

Juan Manuel Carrión, "Del posmodernismo antinacionalista al posmodernismo estadista," Diálogo (March 1997): 36-37.

Aníbal González Pérez, "Algunas repuestas a la 'estadidad radical,'" Diálogo (March 1997): 2.

Rafael Bernabe, “Acuerdos y diferencias sobre la globalización, Claridad (March 14-20, 1997): 18.

Felipe Pimentel Zerbi, "Reflexiones sobre la llamada 'estadidad democrática radical,'" Diálogo (May 1997), 40-41 .

Rafael Acevedo, “La vuelta a la nación en ochenta mundos,” Claridad (April 4-10, 1997): 19.

Aurea María Sotomayor, “La estadidad democrático-radical leída desde el nacionalismo,” Claridad (March 26-April 3, 1997): 26.

Elizam Escobar, “El estatus del post-modernismo' y el debate sobre lo nacional (or Who's Afraid of Radical Statehood”, Claridad (June 13-19, 1997): 22-23.



About Homeless Diaries (1996) and Puerto Rican I.D. (1995) (videos)

Gary M. Kramer, "Hiller's films draw upon her Puerto Rican heritage," Chestnut Hill Local (September 5, 1996): 31.

Edward Ericson, Jr., "A true TV documentary," Orlando Weekly (July 18, 1996).

Dave Walker, "'Life With Television' offers offbeat spin on omnipotent medium," Arizona Republic (July 12, 1996).

Debra Nussbaum, "Using TV to critique TV," The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine (June 30, 1996): 4.

Pat Aufderheide, "Changing More Than the Channel," ITVS Buzzwords (Summer), Vol. 4/No. 1 (1996): 9.



About Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican  (1994, experimental narrative)

Giberto M. Blasini, "Hybridizing Puerto Ricanness," Caribbean Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January - June 2008): 196-200.

Lourdes Torres, "Boricua Lesbians: Sexuality, Nationality, and the Politics of Passing" in Centro Volume 19, No. 1, (Spring 2007).

Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes,  “Cultures of the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora,” In Brad Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson González, eds., Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration (Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press, 2005): 275-309.

________, “The Queer Politics of Spanglish,” Critical Moment 9 (March-April 2005): 5.  Permanently archived at http://criticalmoment.org/issue9/articles/stokes.html

________, “Pop-Shock: Shifting Representations of Diasporic Puerto Rican Women’s Queer Sexualities in U.S. Latina Cultural Texts,” Letras femeninas 31.1 (Summer 2005): 79-98.

________, “De sexilio(s) y diáspora(s) homosexual(es) latina(s): El caso de la cultura puertorriqueña y nuyorican ‘queer,’” Debate feminista 15.29 (April 2004): 138-157.

________, “1898 and the History of a Queer Puerto Rican Century: Gay Lives, Island Debates, and Diasporic Experience,” Centro Journal 11.1 (Fall 1999): 91-110.

Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003).

José Quiroga, "Bean Soup," in Tropics of Desire (New York: New York University Press, 2001): 193-197.

Eliseo Cardona, "Cine Latinoamericano y del Caribe en Miami Beach," El Nuevo
Herald (May 20, 1998): 1C.

La Prensa, "Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican," La Prensa de Minnesota (June 6, 1996): 3.

Dorian Lugo, "Brincando el charco: Raza, preferencia sexual y nación," Diálogo (February, 1996): 28.

Mayra Santos Febres, "La memoria como viaje o reseña de 'Brincando el charco' de Frances Negrón," Claridad (November 10-16, 1995), 20.

Félix Jiménez, "'Brincando el charco' and back again," The San Juan Star (October  26, 1995): 40.

Madeline Román, "Brincando el charco en el San Juan Cinemafest," Diálogo (October 1995): 12.

José Quiroga, "Flag Waving in the Streets of New York, " The San Juan Star (September 10, 1995): 9.

Cindy Fuchs, "Critic's Pick," City Paper (December 2, 1994): 29.

Robert Reid-Pharr, "MiX-DEFYING - New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival," (November 10, 1994).

Frances Negrón-Muntaner, "Brincando el charco: Fragments of a Script," Heresies
No. 27 (1994): 72-74.

Jerry White, "Brincando el charco," Neighborhood Film/Video Program Notes (December 2, 1992): 1-2.

Alba Martínez, "Brincando el charco: A Film-in-Progress Which Tells the Stories of the Puerto Rican Diaspora," Labyrinth (1991): 1, 7.



About Shouting in a Whisper: Latino Poets in Philadelphia  (1994, anthology) and Other Writings

Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, “Queer Ducks, Puerto Rican Patos, and Jewish Feigelekh: Birds and the Cultural Representation of Homosexuality,” Centro Journal 19.1 (Spring 2007).

________, “Naturezas Extravagantes: Sobre Patos Porto-Riquenhos, Veados Brasileiros, e Outros Bichos Raros.” in Denilson Lopes, Berenice Bento, Sérgio Aboud, and Wilton Garcia, eds., Imagem e identidade: Estudos da homocultura (São Paulo: Nojosa Edições, 2004):  309-318.

Victor Federico Torres, Narradores puertorriqueños del setenta. Guía bio-bibliográfica (San Juan: Editorial Plaza Mayor, 2001): 445-447.

Eugenio García Cuevas, "Al destape los poetas del 80," El Nuevo Día (October 15, 2000): 102.

Rafael Acevedo, "El límite (re)volcado: ¿la generación del ochenta?," "En Rojo,"
Claridad (September 5, 2000): 22-23.

Wendy Soderburg, "Boldness in Print: Journals Push Limit With Words," UCLA
Today (November 9, 1998), 1 (On the essay "Jennifer's Butt").

"Seven Arts Book Reviews," Seven Arts (August 1995): 30.

Carmen Dolores Hernández, "La onda latina en los Estados Unidos," El Nuevo Día (June 18, 1995), 26

Nathalie Anderson, "Voices Carry," City Paper (June 23, 1995): 6-7.

"Philadelphia Latin Poets Ready to Shout in a Whisper," Philadelphia Weekly
(May 31, 1995): 10.

"Four Voices Speak From This Side," Kollage (April-June 1990): 6-7, 36.

Mary Armstrong, "Chile Hot," City Paper (December 15-22, 1989): 30.

Doreen Carvajal, "A Pioneer Latino Literary Journal," The Philadelphia Inquirer (December 14, 1989): 1, 4C.

"Gathering Place: Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Ralfka González," Labyrinth (December 1989): 7.

Hilary Botein and Alba Martínez, "Philadelphia Latino Writers's Collective Celebrates Diversity," Labyrinth (December 1989): 1-2.

"Desde este lado/From This Side: A New Literary Magazine," Pulso Latino, Vol. 1, (1989): 1.

"'Desde este lado': Exilio y lugar de encuentro," Community Focus (March 31, 1988): 8.



About AIDS in the Barrio  (1989, documentary)

Ralph Bolton, "Film Reviews," American Anthropologist (1992): 762-764.

Jonathan Storm, "On Channel 35, a 'Lens' on Ideas," The Philadelphia Inquirer (April 30, 1991): 1D, 4D.

Karen Bailis, "AIDS Affecting More People, Panel Says," Temple News (April 29, 1990): 1.

Lillian Jimenez, "From the Margins to the Center: Puerto Rican Cinema in the United States," Centro, Vol. II, No. 8 (1990): 28-43.

Ray Navarro, "AIDS in the Barrio," Seeing Through AIDS (New York: Media Network, 1990).

Hillary Botein, "Latina Filmmakers: Telling the Stories of AIDS in the Barrio," Labyrinth (July, 1989): 1, 7.

"Eso no me pasa a mí: A Documentary on AIDS in the Barrio," Pulso Latino
(1989): 1.

Mary Flannery, "Documenting AIDS in the Barrio," Philadelphia Daily News
(May 3, 1989): 37.