Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleResearch Professor/Professor Emeritus

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationFeminist Studies Department
History of Consciousness Department
Film and Digital Media Department
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Web SiteFaculty

Primary Office LocationCrown College Faculty Wing
225#

Mail StopMerrill/Crown Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

I am a Professor of Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. My publications cover issues of human rights, feminicide, gender and racial violence, media and visual arts, cultural politics in the Américas. My major publications include: Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas (co-edited with Cynthia Bejarano, Duke University Press, 2010); Feminicidio en América Latina, (Mexico D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Centro de Investigaciones Interdiciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, 2011); the award winning book, meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2003). The book was awarded the Modern Language Association Prize, U.S./Latino/a, Chicano/a Literary and Cultural Studies. My first book, The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1993), is the first single-authored book on Chicana/o film and culture. I also edited The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2001); and Miradas de Mujer, (co-edited with Norma Iglesias, CLRC & COLEF, 1998).

Summary of Expertise

human rights, feminist theory, culture and social theories, film, visual arts and media.

Research Interests

My research and teaching reflect my interest in human rights, culture and feminism.

Teaching Interests

Human rights, media studies, visual arts, feminism, decoloniality and cultural theory/studies.

Selected Exhibitions

Stop Terrorizing Feminicide in the Américas

Selected Publications

• Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas (co-edited with Cynthia Bejarano), Duke University Press, 2010.
• Feminicidio en América Latina, (Mexico D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Centro de Investigaciones Interdiciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, 2011
• Violencia de género ante el Derecho y los derechos humanos, IN Julia Monárrez Fragoso, Coordinadora, Vidas y Territorios en Busca de Justicia, Ciudad Juárez: COLEF, forthcoming.
• Transformando el terror: señorita extraviada de Lourdes Portillo (2001), Patricia Ravelo Blancas y Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Coordinadores, Dialogos Interdisciplinario, sobre violencia sexual, México DF: CIESAS-FONCA, 2012.
• Una retrospective crítica de la obra de Lourdes Portillo, Comunicación y Medios, Número 24. Instituto de Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile, 2011.
• Coming to Grips with Feminicide, Truthout, 13 January 2012
• meXicana encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, University of California Press, 2003.
• The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Works by Lourdes Portillo, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
• Miradas de mujer, Co-Edited with Norma Iglesias, Tijuana/Berkeley: CLRC and Colegio de la Frontera-Norte, 1998.
• The Bronze Screen. Chicana and Chicano Film Culture, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.).