Brenda Selena Lara

Education:

B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation:

Epistemic Haunting: Queer Latinx Ghosts in Academia

Thesis Advisor:

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic:

“Turning to the Ghosts: Latinx Scholars' Untimely Deaths, Hauntings, and Testimonios" intersects Latina feminist theory, queer archives, and cultural production to contend that Ethnic Studies has a cycle of queer Latinx scholars whose untimely deaths haunt (or reveal unsolved violence) in academia. By developing studies in Chicana feminism and hauntology as a framework to analyze repressed histories within this project, I argue that these hauntings have knowledge-based and deadly consequences.

Mentor:

Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position:

President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

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