About Me
I am Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Haverford College. I hold a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
CONTACT ME
Email: gvelasco@haverford.edu
My Research and Teaching
My research and teaching explore how gender and queer sexuality inform notions of nation, diaspora, and transnational belonging in a contemporary context of globalization. I am the author of Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2020) and the co-editor, with Dr. Karen Buenavista Hanna, of Beyond the X: Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies (under contract with the University of Washington Press).
queering the global filipina body
Order my book here. Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora explores how Filipina/x/o American cultural production queers the Philippine nation by unsettling the gendered and sexual politics of popular and state nationalisms.
reviews and interviews
Reviews of Queering the Global Filipina Body:
Interview in the Gettysburg News
Listen here. I discuss Queering the Global Filipina Body on PPE: Politics, Praxis, Education and Solidarity, a podcast by the Critical Filipinx Studies Collective.