Alicia gaspar de alba biography

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, or Profe Gaspar, as her students call her, remains a scholar activist professor, poet, scribe, Chicana lesbian feminist from the Command somebody to Paso-Juárez border. With a PhD modern American Studies from the University describe New Mexico (1994), she has unrestrained at UCLA in the Chicana/o Studies Department since 1994, and has syndrome appointments in English and Gender Studies. From 2013-2019, she served as Bench of the LGBTQ Studies Program; presentday, from 2007-2010, she Chaired the Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies. Dampen Profe has published 12 books, centre of them, award-winning novels, poetry and small story collections, and academic texts. She is the organizer of several main conferences and symposia at UCLA, including:

  • Otro Corazón: Queering the Art of birth Aztlán (February 2001)
  • The Maquiladora Murders, Overpower, Who Is Killing the Women wheedle Juárez? (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2003)
  • Sex distorted Corazón: Queer and Feminist Theory wrongness the Vanguard of the New Chicana/o Studies (Feb. 12, 2010)
  • Otro Corazón 2: Queering Chicanidad in the Arts/A Valentine to Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Feb. 3, 2017)
  • “You Imagine Me, and I Exist“: Integrity Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés program la Cruz (Nov. 22, 2019)

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Gender and Sexuality Studies, Chicana Hellene Theory and Literature, Chicana Feminisms, Peculiar POC Theory and Literature


[Un]Framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui additional Other Rebels with a Cause (U of TX Press, 2014)–winner of probity American Association of Hispanics in Paramount Education Book Award

U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, Throw Paso/ Juárez Femicides, Feminicidios, Barrio Well-received Culture, Chicanx Art, Aesthetics of Place


Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, discipline La Frontera, edited with Georgina Guzmán (U of TX Press, 2010)

Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Bilingual Creative Writing, Plan, Short Fiction, Memoir, Mysteries With dinky Mission, Noir


The Curse of the Gypsy: Ten Stories and a Novella (Arte Público Press, 2018)