Contributors

Abstract

José A. de la Garza Valenzuela (delagv@illinois.edu) is assistant professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and faculty affiliate in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Department of English. His work focuses on Chicanx literature with attention to how the state negotiates the possibility of queer citizenship by producing legally bearing fictions about migration, refuge, and asylum. His research on Arturo Islas has been awarded the Frederick Cervantes Premio by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies and appeared in Latino Studies. He is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.