Written With Red Ink: Chicana and Mexicana Feminist Crime Narratives

My research project studies mid-twentieth to early twenty-first centuries’ detective fiction or as it is more commonly known in Latin America, novela negra (noir novel) written and produced by Mexican and Chicana women. My study analyzes the methods these women writers use to creatively redefine the male-centric and patriarchal understanding of lo mexicano and by extension lo chicano in order to insert la mexicana/chicana into these transnational discourses. I analyze the interventions, alternative discourses and narratives to feminism, racial politics, transnationalism, spatial justice, post-modern urbanity, decolonialism and border studies.

Research and Teaching Interests:

Twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican, U.S. Chicana/o & Latina/o Literatures, Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies, Transnationalism and Hemispheric Studies, Decolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Detective-Crime Fictions, novela negra, Popular Culture, Spanish Language and Spanish Heritage Language Pedagogies.