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Curriculum Vitae

Recent academic highlights.

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Alex Mireles

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE in FEMINIST STUDIES

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

Introduction to Gender & Power

Global Feminisms & Social Justice

Women, Representation, & Cultural Production

Women of Color Feminisms

Sex, Love, and Romance

Women's Labors

RECENT AWARDS

2024-25 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

EDUCATION

2026 (expected)

Ph.D. in Feminist Studies

Department of Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

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2022

M.A. in Feminist Studies

Department of Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

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2017

B.S. in Business Administration, cum laude

School of Management, Simmons University

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Queer and Latinx Fashion, Media, and Popular Cultures

  • Aesthetics and Theories of Excess

  • Queer of Color Critique, Cultural Production, Labor, and Capitalism

  • QTBIPOC Histories and Futures

  • Women of Color and Black Feminist Theory

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

2024

"Engendering Carcerality: An Introduction"

Gender & History 

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

"Sonic Homes: The Sonic/Racial Intimacy of Black and Brown Banda Music in Southern California"

SoundingOut! Blog

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/.

2024

"Thumbing: Un/Organized Curatotial Labor and Queer Chicanx Paisa Aesthetics as Digital Artifacts"

Research Presentation

Panel. National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference

Detroit, MI.

2024

"Queer Paisa Sounds: Mexicanidad and Queer Affect in a New Generation of Corridos and Rancheras"

Research Presentation

​Panel. Latina/o Studies Association Conference

Arizona State University 

2023

"Vaquero Softness: Paisa Aesthetics in Digital Space and Queering the Algorithm as Utopian Praxis"

Research Presentation

Panel. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference

Denver, CO.

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