Solimar Otero: Faculty: About: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Indiana University Bloomington

Solimar Otero

Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Professor, Gender Studies

Editor, Journal of Folklore Research

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Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions for Archives of Conjure, 2021
Elected Fellow of the American Folklore Society, 2021
Reed Foundation Grant, 2019
Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Fellowship, Research in Cuba and at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013
Research Associate and Visiting Faculty, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, 2009-2010 academic year
Fulbright IIE Grant for Research in Nigeria (2000)

Critical and Ethical Approaches

Solimar Otero, Mintzi Martinez-Rivera
2021

Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures

Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas

Solimar Otero, Toyin Falola
2014

Critical Folkloristics: Critical and Ethical Approaches for the 21st Century, co-edited with Mintzi-Martinez Rivera, Indiana University Press, in press, est. pub. date 2021.
“In the Water with Erinle: Siren Songs and Performance in Caribbean Southern Ports,” Southern Quarterly, Summer 2018, 55(4):144-162.
“Residual Transcriptions: Ruth Landes and the Archive of Conjure,” Transforming Anthropology, April 2018, 26(1): 3-17.
Special Editor, (with Mintzi Martínez-Rivera), “Introduction: Poder y Cultura, Latinx Folklore and Popular Culture,” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 2 (1), Fall 2017, pp. 6 – 15. Selected for the Project Muse Journal of the Month (February 2018).
“Traveling Transcriptions, Unfinished Stories, and the Living Archive,” Afro-Hispanic Review, (2018).
“Crossing Spirits, Negotiating Cultures: Transmigration, Transculturation, and Interorality in Cuban Espiritismo,” in The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance, and Practice, edited by Hanetha Vete-Congolo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 85 – 107.
“Entre las aguas / Between the Waters: Interorality in Cuban Vernacular Religious Storytelling,” The Journal of American Folklore, Spring 2015, 128 (508): 195 – 221.