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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
Honorable Mention, Best Book in Filipinx American Studies, 2020, Filipino Studies section, Association of Asian American Studies
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:
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies
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.