Rate My Professor John Petrus

Petrus has published key works including “Monstrous Beauty: The Alternative Aesthetic of Difference in Emil Ferris’ My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society (vol. 7, no. 3, 2023), "Discussing The Undiscussable: Reflecting on the ‘End’ of AIDS" in GLQ (vol. 25, no. 1, 2019), "Dance as Medicine: Healing bodies in Nicaragua from the colonial period to the present" in The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture (2018), and "The Transformative Power of Performance Art in Contemporary Managua" (2017). His research interests encompass visual studies, queer theory, Latin American studies, and Latin American literature. Petrus presents actively at conferences, such as "Finding joy, seeking justice in Latinx HIV/AIDS writing" at the Latine/x Studies Association 2024 Annual Conference and “Questioning the Past, Questing for Survival: Cristy Road’s Punk Queer Latinx Life Narratives” at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society.