Emma M Perez
- Research Social Scientist
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-2484
- Little Chapel of All Nations, Rm. 107
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- emmaperez@arizona.edu
Biography
Dr. Emma Pérez earned a PhD in history from UCLA. She joined the University of Arizona as a Research Associate at the Southwest Center and a Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies in 2917. Pérez has published fiction, essays and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Pérez’s first novel, Gulf Dreams, was published in 1996 and is considered one of the first Chicana lesbian novels in print. Her second novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009) earned the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009), 2nd place in Historical Fiction from International Latino Books (2010) as well as the NACCS Regional Book Award for fiction (2011). Her latest novel, Electra’s Complex, is an academic mystery published in spring 2015. A collection of her essays will be published by Arte Público Press in 2023. She will also publish her dystopic novella with Arte Público Press in 2023 or 2024.
Degrees
- Ph.D. History
- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
- "She Has Served Others in More Intimate Ways: Yucatán Social Movements, 1910-1918."
Work Experience
- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (2003 - 2017)
- William Paterson University (1999 - 2000)
- University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California (1995 - 1996)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (1995)
- Univerisity of Texas, El Paso (1990 - 2003)
Awards
- Commencement Address to PhD Graduates, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Committee for Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA., Spring 2023
- "The First 100: Fifty Years of Chicanas Changing History
- University of Michigan, Oral History Project in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution., Fall 2022
- Fabulous Faculty Award
- Rainbow Graduation for LGBT students, University of Arizona., Spring 2020
- Texas Institute of Letters, Inductee
- Texas Institute of Letters, Spring 2020
- Student/Faculty Interaction Grant from Student Faculty Engagement Program
- Student Faculty Engagement Program, University of Arizona, Fall 2019
Interests
Teaching
Chicana/o History Creative Writing—Fiction and Intercultural MemoirDecolonial Theory/MethodologiesFeminist TheoryHistory and HistoriographyLatina/o StudiesRace and Queer TheoryQueer HistoryUnited States History, 1848 to present
Research
History, Culture of the SouthwestChicana/o LGBTQ History and CultureDecolonial Studies in the U.S. and MexicoLynching/Mob Violence in the SoutwestSexuality and Queer Studies in the Southwest
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Dissertation
AIAR 920 (Spring 2025) -
Gender, Identity, and Power
GWS 200 (Spring 2025) -
Senior Capstone Seminar
GWS 496A (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
AIAR 920 (Fall 2024) -
Gender, Identity, and Power
GWS 200 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Dissertation
GWS 920 (Spring 2024) -
Senior Capstone Seminar
GWS 496A (Spring 2024) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
ENGL 407 (Spring 2024) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
GWS 407 (Spring 2024) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
MAS 407 (Spring 2024) -
Gender, Identity, and Power
GWS 200 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Dissertation
GWS 920 (Spring 2023) -
Independent Study
GWS 699 (Spring 2023) -
Senior Capstone Seminar
GWS 496A (Spring 2023) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
ENGL 407 (Spring 2023) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
GWS 407 (Spring 2023) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
MAS 407 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
GWS 920 (Fall 2022) -
Feminist+Relat Soc Mvmnt
GWS 639 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Dissertation
GWS 920 (Spring 2022) -
Senior Capstone Seminar
GWS 496A (Spring 2022) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
ENGL 407 (Spring 2022) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
GWS 407 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
GWS 920 (Fall 2021) -
Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
GWS 201 (Fall 2021) -
Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
MAS 201 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Independent Study
GWS 499 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
GWS 599 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
GWS 699 (Spring 2021) -
Senior Capstone Seminar
GWS 496A (Spring 2021) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
ENGL 407 (Spring 2021) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
GWS 407 (Spring 2021) -
Writing Queer Autohistoria
MAS 407 (Spring 2021) -
Feminist+Relat Soc Mvmnt
GWS 639 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Women's Life Writing
ANTH 496P (Spring 2020) -
Women's Life Writing
ANTH 596P (Spring 2020) -
Women's Life Writing
ENGL 496P (Spring 2020) -
Women's Life Writing
ENGL 596P (Spring 2020) -
Women's Life Writing
GWS 496P (Spring 2020) -
Women's Life Writing
GWS 596P (Spring 2020) -
Women's Life Writing
HIST 596P (Spring 2020) -
Independent Study
GWS 699 (Fall 2019) -
Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
GWS 201 (Fall 2019) -
Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
MAS 201 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
GWS 201 (Spring 2019) -
Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
MAS 201 (Spring 2019) -
Preceptorship
GWS 391 (Spring 2019) -
Chicana/O Lit+Hist Recov
ENGL 415 (Fall 2018) -
Chicana/O Lit+Hist Recov
GWS 415 (Fall 2018) -
Chicana/O Lit+Hist Recov
GWS 515 (Fall 2018) -
Chicana/O Lit+Hist Recov
MAS 415 (Fall 2018) -
Chicana/O Lit+Hist Recov
MAS 515 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
GWS 201 (Spring 2018) -
Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
MAS 201 (Spring 2018)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Perez, E. M. (2023). Queering the Border: Essays.. Arte Público Press.More infoPreviously published essays with a new introduction published in a collection by Arte Público Press, having received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for its publication in 2023.
- Perez, E. M. (2023). Testimony of a Shifter (formerly titled: "I, Ben Espinoza: A Speculative Novel"). Arte Público Press.More infoDystopian, speculative novel completed and published.
Chapters
- Perez, E. M. (2020). "Decolonial Affective Knowledges As Brown Queer/Trans Imaginaries". In In Taking Sides: Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent(p. 10). Germany.More infoChapter to anthology resulted from keynote given at conference in Konstanz, Germany, June 2019.
- Perez, E. M. (2020). “Affective Knowledges: Decolonial Brown Queer/Trans Imaginaries.". In In Taking Sides: Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent(pp 23-30). Germany: transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany.More infoChapter to anthology resulted from keynote given at conference in Konstanz, Germany, June 2019.
- Perez, E. M. (2021). “Give It To The Globe: Considering Gender and Sexuality". In Ana Castillo Anthology/Reader(p. 11). University of Pennsylvania.More infoReview essay on the works of Chicana writer, Ana Castillo.
- Perez, E. M. (2021). “Give It To The Globe: Considering Gender and Sexuality". In In Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo(pp 160-165). University of Pittsburgh.More infoReview essay on the works of Chicana writer, Ana Castillo.
Journals/Publications
- Perez, E. M. (2023). "No captives, no victims"--prose poems.. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 27(4), 403-404.. doi:10.1080/10894160.2023.2245660More infoProse poems published in Journal of Lesbian Studies to celebrate the publication of pathbreaking anthology, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned You About, Third Woman Press, 1991.
- Perez, E. M. (2023). Book Review for: Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex. By Juana Maria Rodríguez, Duke University Press, Berlin Journal of the American Academy in Berlin, Book Review, Fall 2023, pp. 96-97,
. Berlin Journal of the American Academy in Berlin.
More infoBook review of new scholarly book by Juana María Rodríguez. - Perez, E. M. (2020). "Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa". Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 45(2), 161-167.More infoLetter as form to address current academic debates in Chicana/o Studies.
- Perez, E. M. (2020). "Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa". Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 45(2), 161-168.More infoLetter as form to address current academic debates in Chicana/o Studies.
- Perez, E. M. (2020). “The Imaginary as Will to Feel: Beyond the Decolonial Turn in Chicanx/Latinx Feminism". Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 45(1), 243-256.More infoSubmitted and accepted in 2019, currently in press.
- Perez, E. M. (2019). “An Epistolary Love Poem to Sor Juanx". Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 44(2), 199-201.More infoProse poem
Others
- Perez, E. M. (2023, March). "The Dogs Are Back," short story.. A Left Coast Crime Anthology.More infoShort story for Left Coast Crime anthology; conference held in Tucson, AZ in April 2023.
- Perez, E. M. (2023, February). "The Dogs are Back," Short Story..More infoPublished in anthology, Trouble in Tucson, edited by Eva Eldridge, Left Coast Crime Publication, 2023. Submitted in spring 2022.
- Perez, E. M. (2018, November). “Letter to Sor Juanx: An Epistolary Prose Poem".More info“Letter to Sor Juanx: An Epistolary Prose Poem.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Special Dossier on Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, forthcoming.
- Perez, E. M. (2019, Spring). Podcast with Jeffrey Bannister, "Borderlands History". Southwest Studies Center, University of Arizona.More infoInterviewed for Southwest Studies podcast as led by Director Jeffrey Bannister.
- Perez, E. M. (2018, December). CAGES.More info“Cages.” Prose Poem. In Fifth Wednesday Journal. Verne Miller and Ana Castillo, editors, 23 (Fall 2018), 166.
