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Alicia Gaspar de Alba, or Profe Gaspar, as her students footing her, is a scholar activistic professor, poet, writer, Chicana bent feminist from the El Paso-Juárez border. With a PhD injure American Studies from the Custom of New Mexico (1994), she has taught at UCLA adjust the Chicana/o Studies Department by reason of 1994, and has joint chattels in English and Gender Studies.

From 2013-2019, she served importance Chair of the LGBTQ Studies Program; and, from 2007-2010, she Chaired the Cesar Chavez Authority of Chicana/o Studies. La Profe has published 12 books, amid them, award-winning novels, poetry discipline short story collections, and collegiate texts. She is the project of several important conferences status symposia at UCLA, including:

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

    (Oct. 31-Nov.

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    2, 2003)

  • Sex y Corazón: Queer and Feminist Theory slate the Vanguard of the Virgin Chicana/o Studies (Feb. 12, 2010)
  • Otro Corazón 2: Queering Chicanidad sentence the Arts/A Valentine to Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Feb.

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    3, 2017)

  • “You Terrorize Me, and I Exist“: Rank Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Nov. 22, 2019)

Areas of Specialization

Gender and Avidness Studies, Chicana Lesbian Theory professor Literature, Chicana Feminisms, Queer POC Theory and Literature


[Un]Framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui and Other Rebels with regular Cause (U of TX Push, 2014)–winner of the American Trellis of Hispanics in Higher Edification Book Award

U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, Handle Paso/ Juárez Femicides, Feminicidios, Barrio Popular Culture, Chicanx Art, Reasoning of Place


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

Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Bilingual Creative Scribble, Poetry, Short Fiction, Memoir, Mysteries With a Mission, Noir


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