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Alicia Gaspar de Alba, or Profe Gaspar, as her students call her, is a scholar activist professor, poet, writer, Chicana lesbian feminist “luchadora” from the El Paso-Juárez border. With a PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico (1994), she has taught at UCLA in the Chicana/o Studies Department since 1994, and has joint appointments in English and Gender Studies. From 2013-2019, she served as Chair of the LGBTQ Studies Program; and, from 2007-2010, she Chaired the Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies. La Profe has published 13 books, among them, award-winning novels, poetry and short story collections, and academic texts. She is the organizer of several important conferences and symposia at UCLA, including:
- Otro Corazón: Queering the Art of the Aztlán (February 2001)
- The Maquiladora Murders, Or, Who Is Killing the Women of Juárez? (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2003)
- Sex y Corazón: Queer and Feminist Theory at the Vanguard of the New Chicana/o Studies (Feb. 12, 2010)
- Otro Corazón 2: Queering Chicanidad in the Arts/A Valentine to Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Feb. 3, 2017)
- “You Imagine Me, and I Exist“: The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Nov. 22, 2019)
Academic Specializations
Border Studies, Popular Culture, Femicide/ Femincidio, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Chicana Lesbian Theory and Literature, Chicana Feminisms, Queer POC Theory and Literature
[Un]Framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui and Other Rebels with a Cause (U of TX Press, 2014)–winner of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Book Award
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Ph.D. 