Michaela Domiano

Associate Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies
235 Shatzel | 419-372-7118 | mdomiano@bgsu.edu

• U.S.-Mexico border
• Transnational productions of belonging
• Biopolitics
• Cultural forms of resistance

• Ph.D. Communication, University of California, San Diego
  
• M.A. Religious Studies, University of Iowa
• M.F.A. Creative Nonfiction Writing, University of Iowa

Postcards offer a brief, often intimate glimpse into a moment, a place, or a feeling. Pinned to our walls, they serve as quiet reminders of connection—poignant in their brevity, powerful in intent. Selected or crafted with care, postcards always have a destination. They do not, however, include a return address. 

In a world bloodshot with flames, where homes are hollowed by bombs and ceasefires collapse into fire again, what do we as researchers write on our postcards—and to whom do we send them when there is no longer an address or recipient? When fire becomes a catalyst for destruction—through military might, deportation flights, and the erosion of human rights—how do we, as researchers, artists, and activists, respond? Can our work act as a salve, a source of clarity or healing? Is there such a thing as a controlled, clarifying burn? Could our research offer that possibility? What does the fire reveal? 

• Michaela Domiano, et al (2024) Writing the Borderlands of Desire and Distance: A Workshop in Love Letters as Research Method. PARSE, 19, Autumn 2024. Open Access. 
• “Cuentos y Consejos: migrant agency in the FM4 Paso Libre,” Latino Studies (April, 2023) (online first article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41276-023-00412-8) 
• “Re/membering my Cousin Hector, the Huachicolero (forthcoming Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures and Cultures) Forthcoming Spring 2023 
  
• "Partiendo la madre: Borders, Thresholds, and Transnational Sites of Belonging," Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, Vol. 3, No. 2, “Intersecting Latinx Lives: The Politics of Race” (Spring 2019), pp. 41-58. 5 
• “Burlando la migra: Shifting Conections of the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 2018), pp. 15-38. (Lead article) 
• “Phantom Homes.” Anthropology and Humanisms, Vol. 42, Issue 2, December 2017, pp. 194-196.
• “Paulo and the Birds: Towards a Magical Realist Approach to Ethnography.” Communication Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, (2009), pp. 346-369. 
  
• “Rupturing Silence, Rupturing Foreclosure,” El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria E. Anzaldua, Vol. II, 2009, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, pp. 309-323. 
• “Longitudes,” Proyecto de Colección y Archivo Poesía Migrante, ed. Paula Cucurella (forthcoming, Fall 2025) 
• “Between Skin and Stone: A Letter to my Son, Lienzo” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Vol. 22 (2) 440-445 (October 2023). 
• “Diablas por Siempre” The Iowa Review. Volumes 51, Issues 3/Volume 52, Issue 1, Summer 2022 pp. 204-217. 
• “Paso Libre,” New Letters: A Magazine of Writing and Art, Vol. 87, Nos 1 & 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 130-139. 
• “The Anteater,” Another Chicago Magazine, Issue #56, August 6, 2019. https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/2019/08/06/the-anteater-by-micheala-walsh/ 
• 2004 “Cardinals.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2001, Vol 20, pp. 29-33, (2004) University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

• 2022 ICS Fellowship Recipient