Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet whose works include historical novels and scholarly studies on Chicana/o art, culture and sexuality.[1]

Biography

Gaspar de Alba was born in on July 29, 1958 in El Paso, Texas near its border with Ciudad Juárez.[2] She received a Bachelors in 1980 and a Masters in 1983 in English from the University of Texas at El Paso and in 1994 a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico.[3] In 1994, she was one of six founding faculty members of the then César Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Gaspar de Alba has published extensively and her novels have won several literary awards.[4] Her 2005 novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery Novel and the Latino Book Award for Best Mystery Novel.[4] This novel is based on the Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, around which Gaspar de Alba researched and organized a conference on.[5]

Awards

Works

Critical studies

References

  1. West, Alan (August 2004). Latino and Latina writers. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-684-31294-1. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  2. "Voices from the Gaps, Alicia Gaspar de Alba" (PDF). Regents of the University of Minnesota. 2009.
  3. "Faculty; Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba. The UCLA César Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies".
  4. 1 2 Ladua, Eric (April 10, 2008). "Classical 91.7-Arte Público Press Author of the Month: Alicia Gaspar de Alba".
  5. "Outrage over Juarez murders spills across border". Casper Star-Tribune. 25 November 2003. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  6. "Noir by Northwest, Fictional madness, greed and violence are alive and kicking. Mysteriously, so is literary tough guy James Crumley". The News Tribune. 21 August 2005.
  7. Ayala, Elaine (20 March 2005). "Novel explores string of Juárez killings". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved 17 March 2011.

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