{"id":753,"date":"2018-01-29T21:31:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/?page_id=753"},"modified":"2018-02-21T21:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T02:17:43","slug":"dra-melissa-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/dra-melissa-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dra. Melissa Gonz\u00e1lez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells     avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  >\n<div class=\"flex_cell no_margin av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-first   \"  style='vertical-align:top; padding:30px; background-color:#ffefef; ' ><div class='flex_cell_inner' ><p><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-circle    avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-3036 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-3036 avia_image' src='https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/files\/2018\/02\/melisafoto-300x300.jpg' alt='' title='melisafoto' height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; 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'><span  class=\"av_font_icon avia_animate_when_visible avia-icon-animate  av-icon-style-  avia-icon-pos-center \" style=\"color:#403f40; border-color:#403f40;\"><a href='https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kyra-kietrys-b2b09120'   class='av-icon-char' style='font-size:40px;line-height:40px;' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue8fd' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' ><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id='after_submenu_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-753'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>BACKGROUND<\/h2>\n<p>My teaching interests include pre-1950 and contemporary U.S. Latina\/o literature and culture, Latin American and Spanish film, performance art, and transnational LGBTQ cultures; I also enjoy teaching literary, feminist, and queer theories alongside cultural studies. Hispanic Studies is my home department, and I am Core Faculty in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Latin American Studies. Within Hispanic Studies I regularly teach a survey of U.S. Latino Culture with a focus on gender and sexuality that counts for the GSS major (SPA 344) and the senior seminar Latino American Sexualities (SPA 403). I also regularly teach core courses in Davidson&#8217;s Latin American Studies, Humanities, and Gender and Sexuality programs.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, my experiences in the classroom have deeply informed my thinking about academic theories of power and subject formation, and, on the other hand, my research into the workings of race, gender, and ethnicity has impacted how I teach. As a result, I aim to foster classroom environments that are radically democratic and empower intellectual risk-taking. Over the years, I have enjoyed working with students on several interdisciplinary research projects, and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds and with wide-ranging intellectual interests is one of my greatest joys.<\/p>\n<p>My current research focuses on the sexual politics of globalization in the contemporary American hemisphere and studies how the new acceptability of some transgressive sexualities creates alternative frontiers of exclusion. For example, the inclusion of predominantly white or criollo, upper-middle class, and fashionable gay men within the imagined communities of the large metropolises of South and North America is represented as an advancement of human rights but excludes and silences those queer subjects less assimilated into a bourgeois lifestyle, including some trans and gender non-normative people, ethnic minorities, immigrants, and the poor. At present, I am working on a book project, &#8220;Queer Ambivalence: Latino American Sexual Politics in the Age of Gay Marriage,&#8221; as well as related articles.<\/p>\n<p>I have presented papers at academic conferences on topics such as negotiating indigenous and lesbian identities in work of Mujeres Creando; the transnational queer sensibility of Pedro Lemebel; the representation of straightness in Junot D\u00edaz&#8217;s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; trauma in the work of Guillermo Cabrera Infante; and the &#8220;novela de la selva&#8221; genre as deployed in Alejo Carpentier&#8217;s Los pasos perdidos. My publications include: &#8220;Orthodox Transgressions: The Ideology of Cross-Species, Cross-Class, and Inter-Racial Queerness in Luc\u00eda Puenzo&#8217;s novel El ni\u00f1o pez (The Fish Child)&#8221; (co-authored with \u00c1ngeles Donoso-Macaya and published in American Quarterly) and &#8220;The &#8216;Fatal Allurement&#8217; of Local Color: Mar\u00eda Cristina Mena&#8217;s Mexico in American Magazine and The Century Magazine&#8221; in Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-753","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/753\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.kyrakietrys.com\/spa260sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}