Luz Calvo

Associate Professor

Department of Ethnic Studies

E-mail:

luz.calvo@csueastbay.edu

Vitae:

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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
—Audre Lorde

Luz Calvo received her PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. She also holds an MA in Political Science (UCLA) and AB in Politics (Princeton University). She teaches courses in Latino/a Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Ethnic Studies. Her research focuses on queer of color theory and culture. She is beginning a new project on gender norms in breast cancer discourse and treatment.

Professional Focus

Visual Culture
Sexuality Studies
Latino/a Culture

Education

• A.B., Politics, Princeton University
• M.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
• Ph.D History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Courses

• ES 1200 Introduction to Latino/a Studies (4)
• ES 1700 Introduction to Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color (4)
• ES 3000 Ethnic Writers (4)
• ES 3202 Latino/a Writers (4)
• ES 3210 Latinas in the United States (4)
• ES 3243 Latino/a Perspectives in Film (4)
• ES 3430 Interracial Sex and Marriage (4)
• ES 3730 Women of Color Genders and Sexualities (4)
• ES 3820 Race Matters (4)
• ES 4300 Queer of Color Subjects and Critical Theory (4)

Publications

“Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Vol. 5 No. 1, Autumn 2004, 201-224.

 “Embodied at the Shrine of Cultural Disjuncture.” Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation. Eds. Angela Y. Davis and Neferti X. Tadiar. New York: Palgrave Press, 2005, 207-218.

Book Review, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval in SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 29 No. 1, Autumn 2003, 254-257.

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