Education
2026 (expected)
Ph.D. in Feminist Studies
Department of Feminist Studies
University of California Santa Barbara
2022
M.A. in Feminist Studies
Department of Feminist Studies
University of California Santa Barbara
2017
B.S.B.A in Business Administration, cum laude
School of Business
Simmons College, Boston
Publications
2024
Peer Reviewed
Eileen Boris, Sara M. Butler, and Alex Mireles, “Engendering Carcerality: An Introduction,” Gender & History 36, no. 3 (October 2024): 807–23, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12822.
2024
Public Scholarship
Hinojos, Sarah and Alex Mireles, “Sonic Homes: The Sonic/Racial Intimacy of Black and Brown Banda Music in Southern California,” Sounding Out! (blog), October 7, 2024, https://soundstudiesblog.com/2024/10/07/26336/.
Awards and Fellowships
2024-2025
Graduate Division Central Fellowship
Division of Social Sciences and Humanities. University of California Santa Barbara.
2023-24
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Crossing Latinidades Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Research working group on Latinx Sound Culture Studies.
University of Illinois, Chicago
2022
Western Association of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis Competition
Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at University of California Santa Barbara nominee.
Conference Presentations, Invited Talks and Lectures
April 2024
“Queer Paisa Sounds: Mexicanidad and Queer Affect in a New Generation of Corridos and Rancheras.”
Panel. Latina/o Studies Association Conference
Arizona State University
February 2024
“Performing Race, Performing Space: Opening Roundtable ’24.”
Roundtable. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California Santa Barbara
March 2024
“Vaquero Softness: Paisa Aesthetics in Digital Space and Queering the Algorithm as Utopian Praxis.”
Panel at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference
Denver, CO.
Teaching Experience and Interests
Experience
-
Introduction to Gender and Power
-
Global Feminisms and Social Justice
-
Women, Representation, and Cultural Production
-
Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
-
Women of Color Feminisms
-
Sex, Love, and Romance
-
Introduction to Gender and Power
-
Women’s Labors
Topics I love to rant about ;)
-
Aesthetics, Popular Culture, and Theories of Excess
-
Queer of Color Critique, BIPOC Queer Histories and Futures
-
Cultural Production, Labor, and Capitalism
-
Los Angeles and Southern California History