RESEARCH AREAS: LATINA LESBIAN & FEMINIST LITERATURE, WOMEN OF COLOR / DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS, LGBTQ+ STUDIES, QUEER MEMORY WORK
PUBLISHED WORKS
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Chapters:
2026. “Latina/e Lesbian Archival Praxis and Memory Work: A Plática/Roda de Conversa with Malflora Collective,” with Melissa Aslo de la Torre, Guadalupe Ortega, Anahí Ponce, Mariana Meriqui Rodrigues, and Alexandra Nichole Salazar. Journal of Lesbian Studies, pp. 1-16, doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2026.2682644.
2025. “Tejano Drag Kings: Reclaiming Space, Place, and Culture through Performance.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 53 no. 3 & 4, pp. 115-134, https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2025.a972624.
2023. “Beyond Sexual Deviance: Elevating the Expansive Intimacies of Chicana Lesbian Life in Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1-14, doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2023.2231706.
2023. “Ana Castillo: A Multi-Genre Author.” Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Authors. Edited by Norma E. Cantú. University of Arizona Press.
2022. “Homointimate Friendship and Queer Possibility in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters.” Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 30-57.
Reviews and Educational Resources:
2023. “Ana Castillo.” Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students. Edited by Christina Soto van der Plas and Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 57-59.
2020. "Gender and Chicanidad Beyond Borders." Review of Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique by T. Jackie Cuevas. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 174-177.
2021. “Gasca-Valenciano, Pauline.” Handbook of Tejano History, published by the Texas State Historical Association, www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gasca-valenciano-pauline.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Book Project:
In Progress. Somos Lesbianas: Critical Reflections on Latina/e Lesbian Legacies and Futures.
Articles:
In Review. “Resisting Erasure, Asserting Existence: Testimonios from Chicana Feminist Junior Faculty in Texas,” with Amanda Hernandez, Sonia Del Hierro, and Adriana Ponce. American Studies Journal.
Forthcoming December 2026. “‘The revolution begins at home’: Chicana and Palestinian Feminisms from the Homeplace,” with Ruba H. Akkad, Latinx Talk.