Core Faculty
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
- Office: SBS Annex 112
- Phone: 626-7884
- Email: nicoleg1@email.arizona.edu
- Office Hours: On sabbatical 2007-08
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona.
She is also a faculty affiliate in Mexican American Studies, Latin American Studies and the
Department of English. She received her doctorate degree from Cornell University in English,
with a graduate minor in Latina/o Studies in 2004. She is working on a book manuscript titled
Unspeakable Violence: Narratives of Citizenship Mourning and Loss in Chicana/o and U.S. Mexico
National Imaginaries. The manuscript examines how Chicanas, Mexicanas and Indigenas in the U.S.
Mexico Borderlands have attempted to exercise their citizenship and maintain a sense of bodily
integrity and within the disciplinary structures of the two nation-states. With special
attentiveness to racialized sexuality and gender, Unspeakable Violence examines episodes of
violence against these communities as they are part of national historical amnesia.
Her articles "Reading Violence, Making Chicana Subjectivities" appeared in Techno/futuros: Genealogies, Power, Desire (2007), edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes, and "Dora the Explorer, Constructing 'Latinidades' and the Politics of Global Citizenship" appeared in in Latino Studies (Summer 2007). Currently she is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Beginning April of 2008, she will begin a William J. Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Archivos Generales de la Nación and UNAM in Mexico City.
Research and teaching interests: US/Third World Feminisms, Transnational Feminisms, Critical Race Studies, Chicana/o/Latina/o Studies, Borderlands History and American Studies.