Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba received his PhD in Hispanic Literature from The University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an associate professor at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UT Austin where he teaches Queer Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Modernism and film. He has published the books La modernidad abyecta. Formación de discurso homosexual en Latinoamérica (Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 2001), Modernity and the nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity (New York: Palgrave, 2007); co-authored the book Desmantelamiento de la ciudadanía y políticas de terror en la Frontera Norte (Mexico Eon-UAM, 2011). He has also edited the volumes: Entre las duras aristas de las armas: violencia y victimización en Ciudad Juárez (CIESAS: 2006); Gender Violence at the US-Mexico Border (University of Arizona, 2010); and Diálogos interdisciplinarios sobre violencia sexual (FONCA-Eón, 2012). His areas of interest are queer Latin American Studies, gender violence in the US-Mexico Border and criminal organizations in Mexico