Marcia Ochoa

Marcia Ochoa (born 9 September 1970) is a United States-based professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3] They are the co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas and is credited with popularizing the term "translatina."[4]

Marcia Ochoa
Marcia Ochoa
Born (1970-09-09) 9 September 1970
Known forLatino Studies, Transgender studies, Queer theory, Ethnography, "Perverse Citizenship"[1]
Academic background
Alma materStanford University (Ph.D.)[2]
Doctoral advisorPurnima Mankekar and Renato Rosaldo
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz Stanford University

Life

Ochoa moved to San Francisco in 1994.[5] They co-founded El/La Para TransLatinas in 2006 in San Francisco, California.[6]

Career

Ochoa completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in Anthropology in 2005.[7] She began teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005, chaired the Feminist Studies department from 2014-17, and currently serves as Provost of Oakes College. She is also a professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Documentation, Anthropology, Latin American & Latino Studies, and Film and Digital Media.[3]

She published her first book based on her dissertation, Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, in 2014 through Duke University Press.[8] It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.[9] That same year, she edited the Transgender Studies Quarterly issue "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary".[10] She is currently the editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.[11][12]

Following the publication of Queen for a Day, Ochoa's work focused on early colonial violence in Latin America.[13]

References
  1. Ochoa, Marcia (2008-12-14). "Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and Participation in "Loca-Lization"". WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. 36 (3): 146–169. doi:10.1353/wsq.0.0102. ISSN 1934-1520.
  2. Asencio, Marysol (2009). Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  3. "Marcia Ochoa". lals.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  4. Miguel, Yolanda Martínez-San, and Sarah Tobias. Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities. Rutgers University Press, 2016.
  5. "Marcia Ochoa | OUT/LOOK & the Birth of the Queer". OUT/LOOK & the Birth of the Queer. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  6. "El/La Para TransLatinas". ellaparatranslatinas.yolasite.com. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  7. Ochoa, Marcia (2014). Queen for a day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
  8. Ochoa, Marcia (2014). Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  9. Kellogg, Carolyn (2015-06-02). "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  10. https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Transgender-Imaginary-Studies-Quarterly/dp/082236817X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1513115971&sr=1-3&keywords=Marcia+Ochoa
  11. "GLQ | Duke University Press". read.dukeupress.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  12. "An Interview with Marcia Ochoa: How She Envisions the Future of GLQ". Duke University Press News. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  13. "Los Huecos Negros: Cannibalism, Sodomy and the Failure of Modernity in Tierra Firme | Genders | University of Colorado Boulder". www.colorado.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
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