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Faculty Bio

Cynthia Citlallin Delgado holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Â鶹ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ University. She writes across the fields of critical theory, queer and trans studies, feminist theory, critical geographies and Latin/x American Studies. Her book project, Staging the Interstice: The Space of Transfeminist Performance, is an interdisciplinary study that proposes a queer theory of space by mapping the work of contemporary transfeminist artists and activists in Mexico City through performance. Cy’s work has appeared in TSQ, Women & Performance, Hysteria Revista! and Gender, Place & Culture.

Awards and Honors

• Â鶹ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ University, 2022, Monroe Lippman Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Â鶹ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ University, 2021, Dean's Dissertation Fellow

PhD, Â鶹ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ University, 2022
Performance Studies

MS, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015
Gender Studies

BA, Mount Holyoke College, 2009
Studio Art / Economics

Research Interest

Areas: performance studies, art and visual cultures, critical theory, queer and trans studies,gender and sexuality, aesthetics and politics, critical race and ethnicity, urban studies, Latin/x American studies

Past Courses

WS 166: Gender, Race and Class
WS 169: Introduction to Queer Studies
WS 297: Topic: Queer/Trans Performance
WS 369: Queer Theory
WS 399: Research Methods

Publications

Border Encounters, Performing Thresholds: an introduction
Delgado, C. C. (2023). Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

‘Donde Rosh’: the interstitial geographies of Trans- Performance
Delgado, C. C. (2022). Gender, Place & Culture.

Transtocar: Three Fragments
Delgado, C. C. (2022). TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly. Vol 9 (Issue 1) , pages 119-125.

Una Alumna Más: La Trans*pedagogía de Lía Garcia (La Novia Sirena)
Delgado, C. C. (2021). Hysteria Revista!. Vol 35

Book Review: "The political imaginary of sexual freedom" by Leticia Sabsay
Delgado, C. C. (2018). Vol 28 (Issue 2) , pages 173-175.