Core Faculty
Sandra Soto, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
- Office: SBS Annex 209
- Phone: 626-9150
- Email: sotos@email.arizona.edu
- Office Hours: TBA
Sandra K Soto is assistant professor of Women's Studies, co-coordinator of
the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of
English, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies at the
University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in English from the University of
Texas at Austin (with a focus on Ethnic and Third World Literature). Her
interdisciplinary research agenda draws on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and
cultural studies, queer theory, and gender studies to offer innovative
approaches to the overdetermined terrain of social relations, cultural
representation, and knowledge production. She is currently a research fellow at
the Center for Mexican American Studies at University of Texas at Austin, where
she is completing a book manuscript, The De-Mastery of Desire: Subjectivity,
Desire, and the Challenge of Racialized Sexuality in Chicana/o Literature, that
replaces the race-based oppositional paradigm of Chicano literary studies with a
less didactic, more flexible, framework geared for a queer analysis of the
discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Her second
project, tentatively titled Localizing Transnationalism, pursues unlikely
connections between critical transnational studies and U.S. ethnic
studies. She has published in GLQ, Latino Studies, and Arizona Journal of
Hispanic Cultural Studies. Her teaching interests include Chicana/o and
Latina/o literary and cultural studies, feminist theories, transnational
feminisms, critical race studies, US Third World Feminism, and queer
theory.