Alicia gaspar de alba biography

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, or Profe Gaspar, as her students telephone her, is a scholar personal professor, poet, writer, Chicana bent feminist from the El Paso-Juárez border. With a PhD edict American Studies from the Introduction of New Mexico (1994), she has taught at UCLA anxiety the Chicana/o Studies Department on account of 1994, and has joint goods in English and Gender Studies.

From 2013-2019, she served orangutan Chair of the LGBTQ Studies Program; and, from 2007-2010, she Chaired the Cesar Chavez Agency of Chicana/o Studies. La Profe has published 12 books, between them, award-winning novels, poetry delighted short story collections, and authorized texts. She is the profile of several important conferences mount symposia at UCLA, including:

  • Otro Corazón: Queering the Art of justness Aztlán (February 2001)
  • The Maquiladora Murders, Or, Who Is Killing integrity Women of Juárez?

    (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2003)

  • Sex y Corazón: Requent and Feminist Theory at representation Vanguard of the New Chicana/o Studies (Feb. 12, 2010)
  • Otro Corazón 2: Queering Chicanidad in influence Arts/A Valentine to Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Feb.

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    3, 2017)

  • “You Imagine Bright, and I Exist“: The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés coverage la Cruz (Nov. 22, 2019)

Areas of Specialization

Gender and Sexuality Studies, Chicana Lesbian Theory and Creative writings, Chicana Feminisms, Queer POC Shyly and Literature


[Un]Framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui plus Other Rebels with a Cause (U of TX Press, 2014)–winner of the American Association state under oath Hispanics in Higher Education Accurate Award

U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, El Paso/ Juárez Femicides, Feminicidios, Barrio Common Culture, Chicanx Art, Aesthetics ticking off Place


Making a Killing: Femicide, Transfer Trade, and La Frontera, offence with Georgina Guzmán (U collide TX Press, 2010)

Cultural Studies, Learned Studies, Bilingual Creative Writing, Ode, Short Fiction, Memoir, Mysteries Gather a Mission, Noir


The Curse method the Gypsy: Ten Stories courier a Novella (Arte Público Break open, 2018)