Suzanne Bost

About

My work focuses on the intersections of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies with literature.  Building from my cross-cultural and interdisciplinary training, I have published numerous essays on Latinx literature, feminist theory, disability studies, posthumanism, and popular culture, with a particular focus on ethics and futurity.  I鈥檝e also been writing quite a bit about the Gloria Anzald煤a archives and the weird research processes that emerge from my work there.  In the past five years, my writing and my teaching have become increasingly experimental, moving away from traditional literary arguments and towards more speculative, embodied, and cross-genre practices.  My newest book focuses on ethical alternatives to liberal humanism 鈥� queer ecologies, webs of relation, and trans-species lifeforms 鈥� in the works of John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria Anzald煤a. 

Transformative education is the most important thing I do, and I truly enjoy learning with and from my students.

Degrees

BA, University of Texas at Austin

MA and PhD, Vanderbilt University

Program Areas

American Literature and Culture, African American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture, Literature and Identity, Literary Theory, Women鈥檚 Studies and Gender Studies, Research methods, Pedagogical methods

Research Interests

American literatures, 1850 鈥� present, Latinx Literature, Feminist Theory, Women of Color Feminisms, Literary Theory, Posthumanism, Gender and Illness, Methodologies, and Pedagogie

Selected Publications

Books:

Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism  (University of Illinois Press, September 2019)

The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature, co-edited with Frances Aparicio (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, September 2012)

Encarnaci贸n: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature (Fordham University Press, December 2009), 2010 winner of the National Women鈥檚 Studies Association鈥檚 Gloria E. Anzald煤a Book Prize

Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 (The University of Georgia Press, January 2003; re-released in paperback, Fall 2005)

Articles and Book Chapters:

鈥淚rrational Bodies, Emerging Beings: Disability and Decoloniality in Anzald煤an Thought.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Disability and the Global South 6.1 (2019): 1562-1580. 

鈥淚dentity and Cross-Cultural Empathy: Writing to Sister Mary Agnes Curran, O.S.F.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Feminist Formations 29.2 (Summer 2017): 177-199. 

鈥淐orporeal Connections and Healing Justice in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales: An Interview.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; MELUS 42.1 (2017): 186-203.

鈥淧racticing Yoga / Embodying Feminism / Shape-Shifting.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Frontiers: Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies 37.2 (Summer 2016): 191-210.         

鈥淢essy Archives and Materials that Matter: Making Knowledge with the Gloria E. Anzald煤a Papers.鈥� PMLA (May 2015): 615-30.

鈥淧ain: Coyolxauhqui, Yoga, and Social Permeability.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Re-Thinking Therapeutic Culture.  Eds. Timothy Aubry and Trysh Travis.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.  175-186.

鈥淭he Queer Debt Crisis.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Co-authored with Pamela Caughie, Alanna Beroiza, Judith Roof, Dennis Allen, Madelyn Detloff, and Carina Pasaquesi.  Midwest Modern Language Association 46.2- 47.1 (Fall 2013 鈥� Spring 2014): 93-140.

鈥淒iabetes, Culture, and Food: Posthumanist Nutrition in the Gloria Anzald煤a Archive.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Postnational Appetites: Rethinking Chicana/o Literature Through Food.  Eds. Meredith Abarca and Nieves Pascual.  New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 27-43.

鈥淚llness and Healing in Latino/a Literature.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature.  Eds. Suzanne Bost and Frances Aparicio.  London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2012.  84-94.

鈥淓x-centric Subjects: Motherhood and/as Disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherr铆e Moraga.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Disability and Mothering.  Eds. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jan Cellio.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2011. 

鈥淗urting to Change the World: My Grandmother, Faith, and Gloria Anzald煤a.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Bridging: How and Why Gloria Evangelina Anzald煤a鈥檚 Life and Work Transformed Our Own.  Eds. Gloria Gonz谩lez-L贸pez and AnaLouise Keating.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.  191-6.

鈥淐aminando con Gloria: Walking as Experience, Thought, and Action.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; El Mundo Zurdo.  Eds. Norma Cant煤, et al.  San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 2010.  217-27.

鈥淭eam-Teaching Transnationalism: Comparison and Difference in the Americas.鈥�  Co-authored with Elizabeth Russ.  叠谤煤箩耻濒补 7 (Spring 2009): 146-9.  

鈥淔rom Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Material Feminisms.  Eds. Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.   340-72.

鈥淕loria Anzald煤a's Mestiza Pain: Mexican Sacrifice, Chicana Embodiment, and Feminist Politics.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; 础锄迟濒谩苍 30.2 (Fall 2005): 5-31.

鈥淒issolving and Solidifying Identities: Crossing Race, Sex, and Politics in Mestiza Erotics.鈥�  Eros.USA: Essays on the Culture and Literature of Desire.  Eds. Cheryl Malcolm and Jopi Nyman.  Gdansk, Poland: Gdansk UP, 2005.  187-205.

鈥淲est Meets East: 19^th-Century Southern Dialogues on Race, Gender, Nation, and Mixture.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Mississippi Quarterly 56.4 (Fall 2003): 647-656.

鈥淲omen and Chile at the Alamo: Feeding U.S. Nationalist Mythology.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Nepantla: Views from South  4.3 (November 2003): 493-522.     

鈥溾�橞e deceived if ya wanna be foolish鈥�: (Re)constructing Body, Genre, and Gender in Feminist Rap.鈥�  Postmodern Culture 12.1 (September 2001).

鈥淭ransgressing Borders: Puerto Rican and Latina Mestizaje.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; MELUS 25.2 (Summer 2000): 187-211. 

鈥淔luidity without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the Tragic Mulatta Tradition.鈥� African American Review 32 (Winter 1998): 673-689.