Affiliated Faculty

- Title
- Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Feminist Studies Department
- Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies, Research Center for the Americas, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-2363
- Fax 831-459-1925
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Office #334
- Office Hours Spring 2014: Wednesdays 3:30-5pm
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Courses 80B. Sexuality and Globalization; 115. Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas; 120. Transnational Feminisms; 124. Technology and Latinidad; 194F. Chicana/Latina Cultural Production; 211. Sexuality, Race, and Migration in the Americas
Research Interests
Transnational feminism, migration, Latin American/Latino studies, Chicana/o studies, technology and the body, sexuality
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. American Studies (Minor in Advanced Feminist Studies), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Selected Publications
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Books
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Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas, New York University Press, January, 2013.
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Tracking Footprints: The Militarized Science of Surveillance Bordering Sacred Indigenous Land, forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2021.
- Select Articles
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“Spirit-Matters: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Cosmic Becoming Across Human/Nonhuman Borderlands.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43 (4), May 2018. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/696630
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“BioRobotics: Surveillance and the Automation of Biological Life,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4 (1), 2018.https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29635/pdf
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“Transnationalism: Gender and Queer approaches,” Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender Studies, 2015.
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"Flexible Technologies of Subjectivity and Mobility across the Americas," Special Issue of the American Quarterly Journal: Rewiring the 'Nation': The Place of Technology in American Studies, Fall 2006.
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“Cyber-brides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women’s turn from the National to the Foreign,” in eds. Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella, Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
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"Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 2006 (vol. 30, no.2).
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“Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women’s Turn from the National to the Foreign,” In Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (Feb 2004): 33-48.