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I teach across a variety of topics that include queer studies, transgender studies, latinx studies, chicanx studies, and affect studies.
As a professor, my pedagogical approach is informed by my desire to immerse my students in the topics, cultural texts, and theorists that I love. To do this, I approach my courses from my own positionality and training as a scholar of Chicanx/Latinx and Trans* Studies and emphasize the local socio-political and cultural context of the US/Mexico borderlands when teaching about the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. I have three core goals when approaching course design: 1) To make course concepts and theories legible and applicable outside the classroom, providing students a variety of opportunities to interact with cultural producers, cultural works, political campaigns, and archival materials; 2) lesson planning is student-centered, meaning I create an atmosphere that encourages participation and collaboration; 3) the assignment design focuses on developing student research, writing and analytical skills.
Graduate Courses
Queer and Trans of Color Critique
Latinx Time: Race, Affect and Subjectivity
Race, Sex, Fashion
Feminist Theories and Methodologies
Writing Queer and Ethnic Studies (Publishing Course)
Theory and Methods in American Studies
Feminist and Related Social Movements
Undergraduate Courses
Race, Sex, Fashion
Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and U.S. Empire
Introduction to Southwest Studies
Transgender Studies
Latinx Sexualities
Introduction to LGBT Studies
US Third World Feminisms
Chicana Feminisms
Gender in a Contemporary Society
Gender in a Transnational World
Introduction to Chicana/Latina Studies
