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

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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).

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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:

Feminist Formations

The Journal of Asian Studies

QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking

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.