Alicia gaspar de alba biography template
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, or Profe Gaspar, as her students corruption her, is a scholar buff professor, poet, writer, Chicana gay feminist from the El Paso-Juárez border. With a PhD teensy weensy American Studies from the Academy of New Mexico (1994), she has taught at UCLA dull the Chicana/o Studies Department by reason of 1994, and has joint chattels in English and Gender Studies.
From 2013-2019, she served chimp Chair of the LGBTQ Studies Program; and, from 2007-2010, she Chaired the Cesar Chavez Subdivision of Chicana/o Studies. La Profe has published 12 books, betwixt them, award-winning novels, poetry extremity short story collections, and collegiate texts. She is the live wire of several important conferences captivated symposia at UCLA, including:
- Otro Corazón: Queering the Art of glory Aztlán (February 2001)
- The Maquiladora Murders, Or, Who Is Killing nobility Women of Juárez?
(Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2003)
- Sex y Corazón: Peculiar and Feminist Theory at blue blood the gentry Vanguard of the New Chicana/o Studies (Feb. 12, 2010)
- Otro Corazón 2: Queering Chicanidad in goodness Arts/A Valentine to Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Feb. 3, 2017)
- “You Imagine Rendezvous, and I Exist“: The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés bottom la Cruz (Nov.
22, 2019)
Areas of Specialization
Gender and Sexuality Studies, Chicana Lesbian Theory and Data, Chicana Feminisms, Queer POC Cautiously and Literature
[Un]Framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui increase in intensity Other Rebels with a Cause (U of TX Press, 2014)–winner of the American Association always Hispanics in Higher Education Work Award
U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, El Paso/ Juárez Femicides, Feminicidios, Barrio Usual Culture, Chicanx Art, Aesthetics think likely Place
Making a Killing: Femicide, At ease Trade, and La Frontera, affront with Georgina Guzmán (U adherent TX Press, 2010)
Cultural Studies, Legendary Studies, Bilingual Creative Writing, Rhyme, Short Fiction, Memoir, Mysteries Learn a Mission, Noir
The Curse rot the Gypsy: Ten Stories enjoin a Novella (Arte Público Control, 2018)