Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE Professor and department chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Education
Ph.D., M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
B.A., M.A., Spanish, California State University, Northridge
Biography
Dr. Alvarez Jr. is a first-generation college student and a former elementary school teacher. An interdisciplinary scholar, he obtained an B.A. and M.A. in Spanish from California State University, Northridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Chicana and Chicano Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include Chicanx and Latinx aesthetics, performance, and popular culture, Gender and Sexuality, Queer oral histories, Los Angeles queer Latinx histories, Queer of color theories, Jotería Studies, Jotería pedagogies, Queer Space, Feminist geographies, Sound Studies, and Critical Fat Studies. His academic and creative work has been published in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Revista Bilingüe/Bilingual Review, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Sounding Out! The Sound Studies Blog. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript titled Finding Sequins in the Rubble: Memory, Space and Aesthetics in Queer Latinx Los Angeles, an oral history and archival project which maps physical and ephemeral sites of memory and quotidian moments of pleasure and resistance for queer and trans Chicanx and Latinx communities in LA. He is also working on a book of essays and poems about growing up queer in a Cuban and Mexican family in the San Fernando Valley. Prior to joining CSU Fullerton, he held a joint appointment in the Departments of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and University Studies at Portland State University. Before his time in Portland, he taught in the department of Africana and Latino Studies at State University of New York, Oneonta. A founding member of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship, he has served on the board of the organization as Co-chair elect, Co-chair, and Ex-officio Co-chair, and co-coordinated the 2019 biennial national conference at Portland State University. He is a 2020 Faculty Fellow for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, and Honor 41, an LGBTQ Latinx organization, named him one of The 41 List 2019-2020 Honorees, highlighting him as a Latinx LGBTQ role model.
Selected Publications
2020.“Finding Sequins in the Rubble: The Journeys of Two Migrant Latina Lesbians in Los Angeles.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 24(2) 77-93.
DOI 10.1080/10894160.2019.1623600
2019. “I Pray: Un Rezo of Healing pa’ lxs Mariconxs” In Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, edited by Lara Medina and Martha Gonzales, 330-332. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
2019. “Joto Rituals for Healing, Self-Love and Social Justice.” In Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, edited by Lara Medina, and Martha R. Gonzales, 88-90. University of Arizona Press.
2016. “Teaching Ethnic Studies through SWAPA from California to New York: The Classroom as Healing Space.” In “White”Washing American Education: The New Culture Wars in Ethnic Studies, edited by Denise Sandoval, Anthony J. Ratcliff, Tracy Lachica Buenavista, and James R. Marin, 277-295. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
2019. “Write Your Words.” Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production. 9(1-3) http://labelmelatin.com/
2018. “How Many Latinos are in this Motherfucking House: DJ Irene, Sonic Interpellations of Dissent and Queer Latinidad in 1990s Los Angeles.” In Sounding Out! Blog edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2018/11/26/__dj-irene_arena/
2016. “Finding Sequins in the Rubble: Stitching Together an Archive of Queer and Trans Latina Los Angeles.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 3(3-4): 618-627.
2014. "Jotería Pedagogy, SWAPA and Sandovalian Approaches to Liberation,” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39(1): 215-227.
Research Interests
Chicanx and Latinx aesthetics, performance, and popular culture, Gender and Sexuality, queer oral histories, Los Angeles queer Latinx histories, Queer of color theories, Jotería Studies, Jotería pedagogies, Queer Space, Feminist geographies, Sound Studies, Critical Fat studies,
