Dr. Norma Alarcón is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Ethnic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the founder and publisher of Third Woman Press, which began as a journal and gave voice to many Latina writers. She is the author of Ninfomanía: el discurso feminista en la obra poética de Rosario Castellanos (1992) and co-editor, among others, of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State( 1999). Her writings have had an impact across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and range from Chicana feminism and Chicana literature to topics such as gender, race, feminist politics, the U.S.-Mexico border, women of color feminisms, and contemporary social justice issues. Her work has been published both in the U.S. and in Mexico. In her critical essays that have been reprinted in anthologies and journals, Alarcón challenged dominant epistemologies and theories for interpreting the experiences of Chicanas and women of color and carved out a space for deeper conversation about resistance and difference. Alarcón earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She has received the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar Award, the Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Tortuga Award, and was recognized for her contributions to Chicana and Chicano Literature by the Modern Language Association.
Dr. Norma E. Cantú, is a Professor Emerita from the Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, and currently serves as Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she teaches Creative Writing and Latinx/Chicanx Studies. She served as a senior arts specialist with the National Endowment for the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Program. Author of the award-winning novels Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and Cabañuelas, she also published the poetry collection, Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor and has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. Her most recently published anthologies are Chicana Portraits and the co-edited, ¡Somos Tejanas! Tejana Identity and Tejanidad, as well as her single-authored book Fiestas in Laredo.
Dr. Belausteguigoita, Professor at the School of Pedagogy in the Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and chair of the Gender Studies Center at UNAM (CIEG/UNAM). Her work focuses on the relationship between critical pedagogies, artistic and juridical practices focused on women’s access to justice. Her most recent work in English includes: ＂Strikes, Stoppages, Occupations: Mexican Feminist Writing of the Walls＂ in Critical Times (2022) and Critical Terms in Latin American Thought. Historical and Institutional Trajectories in Latin American Culture coedited with San Miguel y Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui (2016, Spanish version 2018). She has been active inn translating, teaching and researching the work of Chicanas and Chicana discourse and theory in México.
Dr. Dionne Espinoza is Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cal State LA. Her research and teaching interests center the voices, archives, and critical theories of Chicana feminist writers and activists from the sixties to the present. In addition to articles in the fields of Chicana history and literature, she has co-edited two award winning books: Chicana Movidas (with María Cotera and Maylei Blackwell, 2018) and Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (with Lorena Oropeza, 2006 As an educator, she has developed and coordinated community-engaged and public humanities efforts to document past and present Chicana activism in Southern California.
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