Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba Bio

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba received his PhD in Hispanic Literature from The University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches queer and gender issues in Latin American Literature, Film, and Culture. He has published the books La modernidad abyecta. Formación de discurso homosexual en Latinoamérica (Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 2001) and Modernity and the nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity (New York: Palgrave, 2007). He co-authored the book Desmantelamiento de las ciudadanías. Políticas del terror en Ciudad Juárez (2011). He has edited the volumes Entre las duras aristas de las armas. Violencia y victimización en Ciudad Juárez (2006), Gender Violence at the US-Mexico Border (2010), and Diálogos interdisciplinarios sobre violencia sexual (2012). He has also authored numerous articles and book chapter on sexualities, violence, and border issues. His areas of interest are queer Latin American Studies, gender violence, and the representations of criminal organizations in Mexico.