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by Adrianna M. Santos (Editor), Adrianna M. Santos (Editor)
El Mundo Zurdo 8 is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2019 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Contributors include: Mariana Alessandri, Stephanie Álvarez, Sergio G. Barrera, Chelsea R. Barron Dávila-Conaway, Javier Alejandro Camargo Castillo, Jacqueline Cantú Contreras, Samantha Ceballos, Yvette Chairez, Isaac Chavarría, Angie Contreras, César L. De León, Candace K. de León-Zepeda, Juan C. Escobedo, Christen Sperry García, María L. M. García, José David "Pepe" García Gilling, Erika Garza-Johnson, Alia Hazineh, Theresa Jbeili, Smadar Lavie, Cecilia Amanda Macias, Soph/Spencer Margulies, Mauricio Patrón Rivera, Emmy Pérez, Octavio Quintanilla, Verónica "Lady Mariposa" Sandoval, Alexander V. Stehn, Kathleen Thomas-McNeill, Maritza Torres, Julie Treviño, Ethan Trinh, Kieran Myles-Andrés Tverbakk, Jesusa María Vargas, Gloria Vásquez Gonzáles, Bernardita M. Yunis Varas, Erika Zavala
Author Biography
Adrianna M. Santos (she/her/ella) is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, faculty adviser for the Mexican American Student Association, and co-coordinator of the Mexican American, Latinx, and Borderlands Studies interdisciplinary minor. Santos has published in the journals of Aztlán, Chicana/Latina Studies, Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, and Shakespeare Bulletin with chapters in El Mundo Zurdo (Aunt Lute 2015), Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century (MLA 2020), Nerds Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx / Latinx Young Adult Literature (Mississippi 2020), and Shakespeare and Latinidad (Edinburgh 2021). She is coeditor of The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, 2023). She has volunteered at the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center, Martinez Street Women's Center, and Child Advocates of San Antonio.
