Alejandra Márquez
(She/Her/Hers/Ella)
B366 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyRomance and Classical Studies
Assistant Professor
Spanish
Biography
Alejandra Márquez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. She also has an M.A. in Spanish from Texas A&M International University. Her research interests span a wide range of topics, including contemporary Latin American literature, queer/cuir studies in Latin America, contemporary Mexican chronicle, gendered narratives of northern Mexico, gender identity and transgressions, depictions of state-sponsored violence, and Latinx literature and culture. She has published articles in academic journals such as Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Chasqui, iMex, and the Latin American Literary Review. She has also published a book chapter on gender violence in northern Mexico in the edited collection Senderos de violencia. Latinoamérica y sus literaturas armadas. Her current book project focuses on representations of lesbian desire in contemporary Mexican literature.
She currently serves as Graduate Advisor for the M.A. in Hispanic Literatures and Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies
Degree: Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American literature, queer/cuir studies in Latin America, contemporary Mexican chronicle, gendered narratives of northern Mexico, gender identity and transgressions, depictions of state-sponsored violence, and Latinx literature and culture
Media Mentions
Mexico emerges as a destination for Americans seeking reproductive health services – not for the first time
The Conversation
May 1, 2024
Shanquella Robinson’s death is being investigated as a femicide. Here is what it means
CNN Online
November 30, 2022
Awards and Honors
14th Annual Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award
Delta Tau Lambda Sorority. Michigan State University.
2022
Courses
SPN 350: Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literature
SPN 412: Topics in Hispanic Culture
SPN 432: Latin America And Its Literature
SPN 840: 20th Century Latin American Literature
SPN 876: Seminar in Gender Studies in the Hispanic World
Publications
“La posibilidad de ser feliz también existe”: Maternidad travesti en Las malas (2019) de Camila Sosa Villada”. Romance Notes 62.3 (2022). 383-393. (journal article)
“Una machorra en Machacado Ville: masculinidad lencha y fronteras en La reinita pop no ha muerto de Criseida Santos Guevara.” Bordxs: Representaciones de géneros, sexualidades y fronteras. Una aproximación a las literaturas y culturas fronterizas. Editorial Artificios. 2023. 133-157 (book chapter)
“Cuir-ing Queer: Speculations on Latin American Notions of Queerness”. Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric. Routledge. 2022. 446-453. (book chapter)
“Ya es hora: La mirada femenina en la producción cinematográfica de Alejandra Márquez Abella”. Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades 47.1 (2021): 175-82. (interview)
“Diluvio de violencia: masculinidad y (trans)feminicidio en Temporada de huracanes (2017) de Fernanda Melchor.” Fronteras de violencia entre México y Estados Unidos. Albatros Ediciones. 2021. 121-134. (book chapter)
“Masculinidad femenina en Sandra, secreto amor (2001) de Reyna Barrera y ‘¡Pantera!¡Pantera!’ (2010) de Elena Madrigal.” Clepsydra. Revista de estudios de género y teoría feminista 17(2018): 63-77. Backlog, published in November 2019. (journal article)
“Obesidad, belleza y mirada masculina en Vapor (2004) de Julieta García González.” Latin American Literary Review 45.89 (2018): 21-27. (journal article)
“Traces of Lesbianism in Cristina Rivera Garza’s La cresta de Ilión (2002) and Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos (2011)” (1991).” iMex. México Interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary Mexico 13.1 (2018): 60-72. (journal article)
“Intermitencias de género y sexualidad en la crónica mexicana contemporánea.” Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 46.2 (2017): 48-60. (journal article)
“‘Allá derecho encuentras algo’: mujeres y violencia en tres narrativas de la frontera.” Senderos de violencia. Latinoamérica y sus narrativas armadas. Albatros Ediciones. 2015. 59-79. (book chapter)
“Historia, mito y calle en Muertes de Aurora de Gerardo de la Torre.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 58 (2013): XV-XXI. (journal article)
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