Background
Alicia de Alba was born on July 29, 1958, in El Paso, Texas, United States.
Alicia received a bachelor's in 1980 and a master's in 1983 in English from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Alicia received a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1994 from the University of New Mexico.
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López
(This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by...)
This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Times-Woman-Chicana-Poetry/dp/0916950913/?tag=prabook0b-20
1989
(Gaspar de Alba considers the boundaries between sexes, lo...)
Gaspar de Alba considers the boundaries between sexes, lovers, cultures, generations, and beliefs and presents a body of work that allows her characters to both defy and celebrate these borders.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mystery-Survival-Other-Stories/dp/0927534320/?tag=prabook0b-20
1993
(This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of th...)
This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls "the first great Latin American poet."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sor-Juanas-Second-Dream-Novel/dp/0826320910/?tag=prabook0b-20
1999
(Its the summer of 1998 and for 5 years over a hundred man...)
Its the summer of 1998 and for 5 years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chicuahua desert outside of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desert-Blood-Alicia-Gaspar-Alba/dp/1558855084/?tag=prabook0b-20
2007
(Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have b...)
Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez across the border from El Paso, Texas. At least a third have been sexually violated and mutilated as well.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Killing-Femicide-Frontera-Chicana/dp/0292723172/?tag=prabook0b-20
2010
(Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was s...)
Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Lady-Controversy-Irreverent-Apparition/dp/0292726422/?tag=prabook0b-20
2011
(Born of a Spaniard and a mixed-race woman, young Concepci...)
Born of a Spaniard and a mixed-race woman, young Concepción Benavidez was apprenticed as a scribe to a convent. At nineteen, she escapes and is captured in the siege of Vera Cruz in 1683.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calligraphy-Witch-Alicia-Gaspar-Alba-ebook/dp/B00AFGJHPI/?tag=prabook0b-20
2012
("What the women I write about have in common is that they...)
"What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror," asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/framing-Bad-Woman-Malinche-Coyolxauhqui/dp/0292758502/?tag=prabook0b-20
2014
Alicia de Alba was born on July 29, 1958, in El Paso, Texas, United States.
Alicia received a bachelor's in 1980 and a master's in 1983 in English from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1994 from the University of New Mexico.
In 1994, Alicia Gaspar de Alba was hired at at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since then she teaches courses on Chicana feminist theory, lesbian literature, barrio popular culture, border studies, bilingual creative writing. Her novels range from historical to noir, and her academic books explore Chicana art, sexuality, cultural studies, and gender studies. She writes fiction for social justice, and her novels look at violence against women on the U.S./Mexico border, the veiled lesbian life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the xenophobic witch trials of New England. She has served as Chair of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies Program at UCLA since 2013.
With novels that have been translated into Spanish, German French, and Italian, Gaspar de Alba has published numerous books, articles, short stories, and poetry. Her 2011 book, Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition," co-edited with Alma López herself, serves as a Chicana feminist response to the religious opposition against Lopez's digital collage, "Our Lady," and offers diverse perspectives on art, censorship, first-amendment rights, the alignment of Church and State, and Chicano nationalism. Her 2010 anthology Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera and her 2005 mystery novel, Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders examine the unresolved murders of over five hundred poor Mexican women and girls that have taken place on the border between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico since 1993.
Along with her teaching and scholarly work, Gaspar de Alba has also organized several important conferences at UCLA. In 2017, she organized "Otro Corazón 2: Queering Chicanidad in the Arts/A Tribute to Tomás Ybarra Frausto," as part of the 20th anniversary of the LGBTQ Studies Program at UCLA. As part of the 2010 quinceañera celebration of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana Studies, Gaspar de Alba organized an all-day Valentine's symposium, "Sex y Corazón: Queer and Feminist Theory at the Vanguard of the New Chicana Studies," which examined how Chicana queer and feminist scholars have changed Chicana Studies over the past 15 years. In 2003, she organized "The Maquiladora Murders, Or, Who Is Killing the Women of Juárez?" a three-day international conference about the epidemic of femicides that have been occurring on the United States-Mexico border since 1993, and in 2001 she organized "Otro Corazón: Queering the Art of Aztlán," a Valentine's day tribute to the creative spirit of queer Chicana visual artist, performance artists, writers, and critics.
Gaspar de Alba holds joint appointments in the departments of English and Women's Studies, and is a longstanding member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Faculty Advisory Committee. From 2002-2004, she served as Associate Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and co-editor of Aztlán: A Chicano Studies Journal, and from 2000-2001, she was appointed Interim Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Studies Program. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, she worked as a Braille transcriber at the National Braille Press in Massachusetts and taught English Composition and ESL courses at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
(Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was s...)
2011(Its the summer of 1998 and for 5 years over a hundred man...)
2007(Gaspar de Alba considers the boundaries between sexes, lo...)
1993("What the women I write about have in common is that they...)
2014(Since 1993, more than five hundred women and girls have b...)
2010(This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of th...)
1999(Born of a Spaniard and a mixed-race woman, young Concepci...)
2012(This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by...)
1989(Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition)
1998(Popular Culture and Chicana Sexualities)
2003