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Gabriela 叠补肠蝉谩苍,

Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
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Academic History

  • Ph.D. - Literature, with a specialization in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of California, San Diego
  • M.A. - Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of California, San Diego
  • B.A. - Spanish and Latin American Literatures & Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Academic Focus

  • Professor Bacs谩n鈥檚 research centers on contemporary Latin American literatures and cultures with a focus on the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race. Her publications have examined authenticity in tourism promotion in Cuba, photography and childhood in Venezuelan film, and photography and memory in Chilean literature. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled, 鈥淰isualizing Queerness: Photography and Narrative in Latin America.鈥� This timely project studies how photography鈥檚 intervention in the representation of intersectional queer subjectivities within literature and film produced since the 1990s sheds light on the complexities and specificities of the political and cultural constructions of social difference in distinct Latin American contexts. Dr. Bacs谩n鈥檚 approach of using photography as an analytic through which to study representations of sex and gender difference is novel and expands on the seminal work of scholars who argue that (in)visibility is central to understanding constructions and experiences of queerness in Latin America.

Courses Taught

  • Core 3 - Resilience and Resistance: Women of Color in the United States
  • Spanish 33 - Intermediate Spanish
  • Spanish 103 - Advanced Conversation and Composition
  • Spanish 116 - Beyond Neoliberal Imaginaries: Contemporary Representations of the City in Chile and Cuba
  • Spanish 131 - Queer Lives in Latin America
  • Spanish 154 - Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico
  • Spanish 156 - From Macondo to McOndo: Revisiting the Latin American Short Story

Selected Research and Publications

  • "Visualizing Queerness: Photography and Narrative in Latin America." Book manuscript in preparation.
  • 鈥淩eflections of Non-Normativity: Photography, Childhood, and Belonging in Mariana Rond贸n鈥檚, Pelo malo.鈥� Latin American Perspectives, vol. 48, no. 2, 2021, pp. 93鈥�107, .
  • 鈥溾�楢n Unrivalled Paradise鈥�: The Production of Difference in the Cuban Ministry of Tourism鈥檚 Aut茅ntica Cuba Campaign.鈥� International Journal of Cuban Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2019, pp. 310鈥�331, .
  • 鈥溾�楲a foto no es buena鈥�: Photography, the Resistant Look, and the Futurity of 鈥榟omosexualidades latinoamericanas鈥� in Pedro Lemebel鈥檚 鈥楲a noche de los visones.鈥欌�� Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana (01458973), vol. 48, no. 1, 2019, pp. 131鈥�149.

Awards and Honors

  • The Arnold L. Graves and Lois S. Graves Awards in the Humanities. 2022-23.
  • Faculty Sabbatical Research Grant. 61传媒. 2020-21.
  • The Institute for Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (Previously known as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation). June鈥揇ecember 2019.
  • Faculty Sabbatical Research Grant. 61传媒. 2019-20.
  • Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching. 61传媒. 2018-19.