Ellie D. Hernández

Professor
DEI Officer

Office Location

1702 South Hall

Specialization

20th Century American Literature

U.S. Minority & Ethnic Literature

Cultural Studies & Critical Theory

Chicana/o & U.S. Latina/o Studies

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Sexual Minorities & Immigration

Education

Ph.D. (2001) English literature, University of California, Berkeley

M.A.  (1993) English Literature, Eastern Michigan University

B.A.   (1987) English/Political Science, Texas A&M International (Laredo)

Bio

Ellie D. Hernandez is an Associate Professor in the department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara where she teaches and writes extensively on Chicanx literature and culture, citizenship, transnational Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production and Latinx LGBTQ Studies. Her book, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture published by University of Texas Press in (2009) is a study on the subject of nationalism and gender and sexuality studies. In (2014,) she published a co-edited collection of essays titled The UnMaking of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics, Palgrave Press. She is also co- editor of Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies and Spaces, University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Research

“Chicana Feminist Literary Subjectivity in a Transnational Frame” Response Essay 

New Transnational Latinx Perspectives on Ana Castillo, Co-edited by Bernadine Hernandez and Karen Roybal University if Pittsburg Press, 

June 2021. 

 

“Fea, Firme y Formal: Latinx Female Masculinity” Editors Frederick Aldama and 

Arturo Aldama, Decolonizing Masculinities University of Arizona Press, September 2020.  

International Latino Book Award. Honorable Mention, 2021

 

“Decolonial Imaginings: The Work of Emma Perez” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o  

Literature, edited Louis Mendoza et al. March 2020. 

 

“Latina/o Gender and Sexuality” Co Authored with Deena J. Gonzalez (Reprint) 

Identities and Place: Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ

and Two Spirited People in the United States. Ed. Megan Springate. NY, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.  

 

“Cultura Joteria: The In’s and Out of Latina/o Popular Culture.” Routledge Handbook of Latino Pop 

Culture. New York, London: Routledge, 2016

 

“Latina/o Gender and Sexuality” Co Authored with Deena J. Gonzalez. Latino 

Heritage Theme Study (OAH) Organization of American Historians. Spring 2016. https://www.nps.gov/articles/lgbtqtheme-latino.htm

 

“Politics of Sexuality” Co Authored Deena Gonzalez Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinas 

and Latinos in Contemporary Politics, Law and Social Movements Vol 2 New York: Oxford Press, 2015. 

 

 “Transnational Méxican Cultural Production: El Otro Lado”

Blanco, Cano R, and Rita Urquijo-Ruiz. Global Mexican Cultural Productions. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

 

“Queer Feminist Borderlands” El Mundo Zurdo Celebrating 20 Years of Borderlands/La Frontera.  

Ed. Norma E. Cantú and Christina L. Gutierrez.  Aunt Lute Press, 2010.

 

“The Future Perfect: Chicana Feminist Critical Analysis”

Chicana/ Latina Studies: Journal of MALCS, Spring 2006.

 

“Chronotope of Desire: Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams” 

Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader.  Eds. Aida Hurtado, Gabriella Arrellano, Norma Klahn and Patricia Zavella. Duke University Press, 2003.

Publications

Books in Print:

Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture 

University of Texas Press, (2009)

(Monograph)

 

The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture Politics and Aesthetics Palgrave Macmillan Press (2014)

Edited Critical Anthology 

With Dr. Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson, Co- Editor

 

Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies and Spaces

With Dr. Eddy Alvarez and Dr. Magda Garcia, Co- Editors

University of Nebraska May (2021) Expanding Frontiers Series

 

Articles:

“Cultura Joteria: The In’s and Out of Latina/o Popular Culture.” Routledge Handbook of Latino Pop Culture. New York, London: Routledge, 2016

“Latina/o Gender and Sexuality: Making a Difference” Co Authored with Deena J. Gonzalez. Latino Heritage Theme Study (OAH) Organization of American Historians. (Forthcoming) Spring 2016

“Transnational Méxican Cultural Production: El Otro Lado” Blanco, Cano R, and Rita Urquijo-Ruiz. Global Mexican Cultural Productions. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Courses

CHICST 153: Chicana/o Queer Communities

CHICST 154: Gender Sexuality in the Americas 

CHICST 168: Chicana/o Autobiography

CHICST 184: Chicana Writers 

CHICST 191: Citizenship and Globalization 

CHICST 193: Senior Capstone 

CHICST 200: Graduate Seminar, Cultural Texts (First Year)

CHICST 591: Graduate Seminar, Theoretical Problems in Chicana/o Studies