Alicia Arrizón

Education

Alicia Arrizón received a Bachelor of Arts in 1984 and a Master of Arts in 1986 from Arizona State University. She studied at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992.

Career

Alicia Arrizón is a professor in the department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside where she has served as department Chair (2006-2012) and Associate Dean in the College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (2017-2022). She is the author of "Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance" (2006), "Latina Performance" (1999); and co-editor of "Latinas on Stage"(2000) and "Sensualidades", a special issue of Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory (2008). Some of her articles appeared in journals such as The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies, Ollantay: Theatre Magazine, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Research International. She is currently working on a book-length project that aims to reconceptualize and recontextualize queer and feminist discourses in borderlands and border theory.

Alicia Arrizón's research areas include cultural studies, literature, and performance, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Achievements

• Alicia Arrizón has been teaching for 28 years at the University of California, at the same time writing articles and books. She has begun as an associate professor and now she is an associate dean. The book "Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance" by Alicia Arrizón became the winner of the Outstanding Book Award 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and co-winner of the 2007 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.

Works

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  • Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage

    (Latina Performance examines the Latina subject whose work...)

    1999
  • Latinas on Stage

    (Latinas on Stage covers all the bases - performance text,...)

    2000
  • Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance 2006
  • Queering Mestizaje 2007

Politics

Alicia Arrizón is an adherent of radical democratic views and critical thinker.

Views

Alicia Arrizón's primary motivation for writing is the dissemination of knowledge marginal to mainstream society. The work of many Latina artists (and many other subjects) and historical facts influence her work. Her writing process is an accumulation of many things; research and original thinking. In the book "Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage," Alicia Arrizón interrogates the connections between Latina identity and the emergence of a Latina performance aesthetic in the United States during the twentieth century. She suggests that the borders between performance and gender are multiple in ways that are not only reflective of Latina traditions but also constitutive of a fractured subjectivity that has been historically ignored.

Membership

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  American Studies Association , United States

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  Association in Theater for Higher Education , United States

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  Modern Language Association of America , United States

Personality

Alicia Arrizón's loves animals and music.

Interests

• theater, performance culture

Connections

Alicia Arrizón's life partner is Gina Marie Ong, attorney.

Father:

Francisco Arrizón

Mother:

Ofelia Peña

life partner:

Gina Marie Ong