Publications
Books
Largo, M. (Forthcoming). Unsettling Imaginaries: Decolonial Diaspora Aesthetic of Filipinx Artists in Canada. University of Washington Press.
Diaz, R., Largo, M. & Pino, F. (2017). Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
Largo, M. (2008). From the Pearl of the Orient to Uptown: A Collaborative Arts-Based Inquiry with Filipino Youth Activists in Montreal. VDM, Germany. ISBN 978-3-639-06595-4
Book Chapters
Largo, M. (2023). Arts-Based Educational Research. In Coloma, R. S. & Rhee, J. Diversity, democracy, and social justice in education. International Encyclopedia of Education (4th Edition). Elsevier Ltd.
Diaz, R., Largo, M., and Pino, F. (2018). Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries. In Haritaworn, J., Moussa, G., & Ware, S. M. (Eds.), Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto. (pp. 84-99). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Largo. M. (2017). Reimagining Filipina Visibility through “Black Mirror”: The queer decolonial diasporic aesthetic of Marigold Santos. In Diaz, R., Largo, M. & Pino, F. (pp. 99-117). Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
Largo. M. (2016). Folklore Reimagined: The Decolonial Diaspora Aesthetic Marigold Santos. In Isabelle de Mérvius (pp. 118-160). Les Mythologie Singulières: Anna Torma, Claire Labonte, Maigold Santos. Montreal, Quebec: Les Éditions de Mérius.
Largo, M. (2012). From the pearl of the orient to uptown: A collaborative arts-based inquiry with Filipino youth activists in Montreal. In Coloma, R., McElhinny, B., Tungohan, E., Catungal, J. P. & Davidson, L. M. (Eds.), Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility (pp. 243-264). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Szabad-Smyth, L. & Largo, M. (2008). When art meets community. In Gagnon-Bourget, F. & Gosselin, P. (Eds.). Actes du colloque sur la recherche en enseignement des arts visuels. L’Université du Québec à Montréal. (back-dated 2006). Montréal: CRÉA Éditions.
Contributing artist in Butler, P. (ed.) (2012). Lateral learning: Disaster, pedagogy, community and art, (pp. 99-100). Vancouver: Vantage
Guest Editing
Catungal, JP., Davidson, L., Largo, M. and Mecija, C. (Eds.) (Forthcoming in 2023). FilipiNEXT: Filipinx Studies in Canada and Beyond. ALON: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies.
Deer, G., Lee, C., and Largo, M. (Eds.) (2018). Beyond Canada 150: Asian Canadian Visual Cultures. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 4(1-2).
Journal Articles
Largo, M. (2022). Elusive Desires: Towards a Queer Feminist Asian Diasporic Approach to Museum Education and Curation. Journal of Museum Education, 47(1), 44–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/
Largo, M. (2018). Jamelie Hassan and Divya Mehra: Cultural Currency and Canada 150. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 4(1-2), 189-193. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00401010
Deer, G., Lee, C., & Largo, M. (2018). Beyond Canada 150: Asian Canadian Visual Cultures. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 4(1-2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00401001
Largo, M. (2017). Transnational kinship, diasporic mourning and belonging in the Canadian animation world: The moving images of Leslie Supnet’s gains + losses. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 38, 5-15.
Largo, M. (2015). A country that does not exist: The queer decolonial aesthetic of Julius Poncelet Manapul. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 1(1), 108-130.
Szabad-Smyth, L., with contributions from Chalas, A., Duval, C., Goodfriend, T., Holt, A., Largo, M., LeBlanc, N., and Reid, N., (2005). Personal narratives of spaces, places and displacement as revealed in studio work. The Canadian Art Teacher, 5(1), 6-15.
Book Reviews
Largo, M. (2018). Maura Reilly’s Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. RACAR: 43(2), 142-144. https://www.racar-racar.com/uploads/5/7/7/4/57749791/largo.pdf
Art Criticism
Garay, E. & Largo, M. (2023). At The Edge of Not Yet and No Longer. Commissioned exhibition essay for Marigold Santos | the pace and rhythm of time, floating / ang tulin at kumpas ng oras, lumulutang. February 2023 – April, 23 2023. The Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin, 601 3 Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Largo, M. (Ed.) (2021). Elusive Desires: Ness Lee + Florence Yee. Exhibition Catalogue for Elusive Desires: Ness Lee + Florence Yee. Sept. 24, 2021 – Jan. 2, 2022. The Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 216 Main St Unionville, Unionville.
Largo, M. (2021). Elusive Desires: Queer Feminist Asian Diaspora and Suburban Possibilities. Curatorial essay for for Elusive Desires: Ness Lee + Florence Yee. Sept. 24, 2021 – Jan. 2, 2022. The Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 216 Main St Unionville, Unionville.
Largo, M. (2020). Subversive adaptations in diaspora: On Marigold Santos’s shroud (in threadbare light). Commissioned exhibition essay for Relations: Diaspora and Painting. April 23 – Sept. 15, 2020. Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, 451 & 465 Saint-Jean Street, Montreal, Quebec.
Largo, M. (2020). Transmutation and diasporic subjectivity in Marigold Santos’ Malaginto. Commissioned exhibition essay for Malaginto. Nov 8, 2019 – Jan. 12, 2020. Dunlop Art Gallery, 2311 12 Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Largo, M. (2017). Unsettled Imaginaries. Commissioned exhibition essay for Unsettled Imaginaries: Kuh Del Rosario, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Marigold Santos, Leslie Supnet. November 3 – December 16, 2017. A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110, Toronto, Ontario.
Largo, M. (2016). Supernatural Entanglements and the Politics of Visibility. Commissioned exhibition essay for Marigold Santos’ MIRROR/MOTHER (fragments). May 27 – July 5, 2016. Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive, St. John’s, Newfoundland.