Printing Nueva York

Join us for a conversation on Printing Nueva York with author Kelley Krietz, presented in partnership with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. This groundbreaking study maps the vibrant world of nineteenth-century Spanish-language print culture in New York, tracing networks of Cuban émigrés, political exiles, and Puerto Rican intellectuals who used newspapers, pamphlets, and literary journals to shape public discourse and assert self-representation. Through this lens, the book reveals an essential genealogy of Latinx media-making, diasporic connection, and cultural production that has long shaped the city’s intellectual and political life.  
 
This program is part of The Clemente’s broader Historias initiative, a multi-year citywide initiative that weaves scholarly research, oral histories, and cultural programming to re-center Latinx narratives in NYC.  
 
Using Printing Nueva York as a historical anchor, the conversation will reflect on the longer continuities of Latinx knowledge circulation in New York—from nineteenth-century print networks to contemporary digital humanities projects such as Nueva York Chronicles. Kelly will be joined by Alana Casanova-Burgess, host and producer of WNYC’s NPR podcast La Brega. 

This conversation is moderated by Monxo López, MCNY’s Curator of Community Histories.

About the Speakers: 

Kelley Kreitz is Professor of English at Pace University in New York City. Her research brings together Latinx studies, media studies, and US and Latin American literary studies and has appeared in American Literary History, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, English Language Notes, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, among other journals. She leads the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org and is the author of Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century (NYU Press, 2026). She serves on the advisory board of the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.

Dr. Monxo López, Curator of Community Histories (he/him/his) is a dedicated museum curator, urban thinker, educator, cartographer, and activist for environmental and urban justice in the South Bronx. Currently serving as the inaugural Curator of Community Histories at the Museum of the City of New York, he holds a PhD in political science from CUNY’s Graduate Center and an MA from Université Laval in Québec, Canada. Monxo is the curator or co-curator of several exhibitions at MCNY, including Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega, This Is New York, Puppets of New York, and Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate. His work at MCNY has been noted in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and other major publications.
Originally from Puerto Rico, Monxo now resides in Mott Haven, where he continues to engage with local communities to promote social equity and sustainability.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.