{"id":11696,"date":"2025-06-18T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:32:46","slug":"for-pride-month-la-prensa-llc-interviewed-alejandra-marquez-assistant-professor-of-spanish-michigan-state-university-msu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/for-pride-month-la-prensa-llc-interviewed-alejandra-marquez-assistant-professor-of-spanish-michigan-state-university-msu\/","title":{"rendered":"For PRIDE Month, La Prensa, LLC Interviewed:\u00a0Alejandra M\u00e1rquez, Assistant Professor of Spanish @ Michigan State University (MSU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alejandra M\u00e1rquez<\/a> is an assistant professor of Spanish at Michigan State University (MSU) in Lansing, Michigan. She was born in Mexico City, Mexico, but raised in Laredo, Texas, where she graduated from Alexander High School and earned her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) & Master of Arts (M.A.) from Texas A&M International University. Her Ph.D. (Philosophical Doctrine) is in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rquez<\/a>\u2019s research area revolves around the representation of gender and sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean, in contemporary Latin American literature, queer\/cuir\u00a0<\/em>studies in Latin America, contemporary Mexican chronicles, gendered narratives of northern Mexico, gender identity and transgressions, depictions of state-sponsored violence, Latinx literature and culture, and comedy studies in Mexico through Michigan State University\u2019s Department of Romance and Classical Studies.<\/p>\n

She was a very interesting and enthusiastic interviewee, sharing that she is also currently working on a book to be published by SUNY about modern literary representations of same-sex desire between women in Mexico and how those narratives challenge or perpetuate perceptions of gender and sexuality. She has also published in numerous peer reviewed journals, articles such as \u201cLa posibilidad de ser feliz tambi\u00e9n existe\u201d: Maternidad travesti en\u00a0Las malas\u00a0<\/em>(2019) de Camila Sosa Villada\u201d.\u00a0Romance Notes\u00a0<\/em>62.3\u00a0(2022, pp. 383-393). \u201cMasculinidad femenina en\u00a0Sandra, secreto amor\u00a0<\/em>(2001) de Reyna Barrera y \u2018\u00a1Pantera! \u00a1Pantera!\u2019 (2010) de Elena Madrigal.\u201d\u00a0Clepsydra. Revista de estudios de g\u00e9nero y teor\u00eda feminista<\/em>\u00a017 (2018, pp. 63-77: Backlog, published in November 2019). \u201cObesidad, belleza y mirada masculina en\u00a0Vapor<\/em>\u00a0(2004) de Julieta Garc\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez.\u201d\u00a0Latin American Literary Review\u00a0<\/em>45.89 (2018, pp. 21-27). \u201cTraces of Lesbianism in Cristina Rivera Garza\u2019s\u00a0La cresta de Ili\u00f3n\u00a0<\/em>(2002) and Valeria Luiselli\u2019s\u00a0Los ingr\u00e1vidos\u00a0<\/em>(2011)\u201d (1991).\u201d\u00a0iMex. M\u00e9xico Interdisciplinario\/Interdisciplinary Mexico\u00a0<\/em>13.1 (2018, pp. 60-72). \u201cIntermitencias de g\u00e9nero y sexualidad en la cr\u00f3nica mexicana contempor\u00e1nea.\u201d\u00a0Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana\u00a0<\/em>46.2 (2017, pp. 48-60). Y \u201cHistoria, mito y calle en\u00a0Muertes de Aurora<\/em>\u00a0de Gerardo de la Torre.\u201d\u00a0Revista de<\/em>\u00a0Literatura Mexicana Contempor\u00e1nea<\/em>\u00a058 (2013, pp. XV-XXI).<\/p>\n

She has also written book chapters for edited collections like the\u00a0Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric\u00a0<\/em>(2022, eds. Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander) \u201cCuir-ing Queer: Speculations on Latin American Notions of Queerness\u201d (pp. 446-453); \u201cDiluvio de violencia: masculinidad y (trans)feminicidio en\u00a0Temporada de huracanes<\/em>\u00a0(2017) de Fernanda Melchor.\u201d\u00a0Fronteras de violencia entre M\u00e9xico y Estados Unidos.\u00a0<\/em>Albatros Ediciones. (2021, ed. Oswaldo Estrada, pp. 121-134); \u201cUna machorra en Machacado Ville: masculinidad lencha y fronteras en\u00a0La reinita pop no ha muerto\u00a0<\/em>de Criseida Santos Guevara.\u201d\u00a0Bordxs: Representaciones de g\u00e9neros, sexualidades y fronteras. Una aproximaci\u00f3n a las literaturas y culturas fronterizas.\u00a0<\/em>Editorial Artificios. (2023, pp.133-157); and \u201c\u2018All\u00e1 derecho encuentras algo\u2019: mujeres y violencia en tres narrativas de la frontera.\u201d\u00a0Senderos de violencia. Latinoam\u00e9rica y sus narrativas armadas.\u00a0<\/em>Albatros Ediciones. (2015, pp. 59-79).<\/p>\n

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Para el Mes de PRIDE, La Prensa, LLC Entrevisto:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alejandra M\u00e1rquez, Profesora Adjunta de Espa\u00f1ol en la Universidad Estatal de Michigan (MSU)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por la Dra. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alejandra M\u00e1rquez es profesora adjunta de espa\u00f1ol en la Universidad Estatal de Michigan (MSU) en Lansing, Michigan. Naci\u00f3 en la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, en M\u00e9xico, pero creci\u00f3 en Laredo, Texas, donde se gradu\u00f3 de la Preparatoria Alexander y obtuvo su Licenciatura y Maestr\u00eda en Artes en la Universidad Internacional Texas A&M. Su Doctorado (Doctrina Filos\u00f3fica) es en Lenguas y Literaturas Rom\u00e1nicas de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

El \u00e1rea de investigaci\u00f3n de M\u00e1rquez gira en torno a la representaci\u00f3n del g\u00e9nero y la sexualidad en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe, en la literatura latinoamericana contempor\u00e1nea, los estudios queer\/cuir en Am\u00e9rica Latina, las cr\u00f3nicas mexicanas contempor\u00e1neas, las narrativas de g\u00e9nero del norte de M\u00e9xico, la identidad de g\u00e9nero y las transgresiones, las representaciones de la violencia de Estado, la literatura y la cultura latina, y los estudios de comedia en M\u00e9xico a trav\u00e9s del Departamento de Estudios Rom\u00e1nicos y Cl\u00e1sicos de la Universidad Estatal de Michigan.<\/p>\n

Fue una entrevista muy interesante y entusiasta, y comparti\u00f3 que actualmente tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 trabajando en un libro que publicar\u00e1 SUNY sobre las representaciones literarias modernas del deseo entre mujeres del mismo sexo en M\u00e9xico y c\u00f3mo estas narrativas desaf\u00edan o perpet\u00faan las percepciones de g\u00e9nero y sexualidad. Y tambi\u00e9n publicados en numerosas revistas art\u00edculos como \u201cLa posibilidad de ser feliz tambi\u00e9n existe\u201d: Maternidad travesti en\u00a0Las malas\u00a0<\/em>(2019) de Camila Sosa Villada\u201d.\u00a0Romance Notes\u00a0<\/em>62.3\u00a0(2022, pp. 383-393). \u201cMasculinidad femenina en\u00a0Sandra, secreto amor\u00a0<\/em>(2001) de Reyna Barrera y \u2018\u00a1Pantera! \u00a1Pantera!\u2019 (2010) de Elena Madrigal.\u201d\u00a0Clepsydra. Revista de estudios de g\u00e9nero y teor\u00eda feminista<\/em>\u00a017 (2018, pp. 63-77: Backlog, publicado en noviembre de 2019). \u201cObesidad, belleza y mirada masculina en\u00a0Vapor<\/em>\u00a0(2004) de Julieta Garc\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez.\u201d\u00a0Latin American Literary Review\u00a0<\/em>45.89 (2018, pp. 21-27). \u201cTraces of Lesbianism in Cristina Rivera Garza\u2019s\u00a0La cresta de Ili\u00f3n\u00a0<\/em>(2002) and Valeria Luiselli\u2019s\u00a0Los ingr\u00e1vidos\u00a0<\/em>(2011)\u201d (1991).\u201d\u00a0iMex. M\u00e9xico Interdisciplinario\/Interdisciplinary Mexico\u00a0<\/em>13.1 (2018, pp. 60-72). \u201cIntermitencias de g\u00e9nero y sexualidad en la cr\u00f3nica mexicana contempor\u00e1nea.\u201d\u00a0Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana\u00a0<\/em>46.2 (2017, pp. 48-60). Y \u201cHistoria, mito y calle en\u00a0Muertes de Aurora<\/em>\u00a0de Gerardo de la Torre.\u201d\u00a0Revista de<\/em>\u00a0Literatura Mexicana Contempor\u00e1nea<\/em>\u00a058 (2013, pp. XV-XXI).<\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n ha escrito cap\u00edtulos de libros para colecciones editadas como Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric\u00a0<\/em>(2022, eds. Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander) \u201cCuir-ing Queer: Speculations on Latin American Notions of Queerness\u201d (pp. 446-453); \u201cDiluvio de violencia: masculinidad y (trans)feminicidio en\u00a0Temporada de huracanes<\/em>\u00a0(2017) de Fernanda Melchor.\u201d\u00a0Fronteras de violencia entre M\u00e9xico y Estados Unidos.\u00a0<\/em>Albatros Ediciones. (2021, ed. Oswaldo Estrada, pp. 121-134); \u201cUna machorra en Machacado Ville: masculinidad lencha y fronteras en\u00a0La reinita pop no ha muerto\u00a0<\/em>de Criseida Santos Guevara.\u201d\u00a0Bordxs: Representaciones de g\u00e9neros, sexualidades y fronteras. Una aproximaci\u00f3n a las literaturas y culturas fronterizas.\u00a0<\/em>Editorial Artificios. (2023, pp.133-157); and \u201c\u2018All\u00e1 derecho encuentras algo\u2019: mujeres y violencia en tres narrativas de la frontera.\u201d\u00a0Senderos de violencia. Latinoam\u00e9rica y sus narrativas armadas.\u00a0<\/em>Albatros Ediciones. (2015, pp. 59-79).<\/p>\n

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