Salomé Herrera is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature and Cultural Production in the University of Oregon's Department of English. Her research and teaching traverses Literary, Performance, and Latinx Studies. Specifically, she analyzes transborder aesthetics to theorize queer life. Her work is informed by Chicana feminism, world-systems theory, psychoanalysis, and aesthetic decipherment. Herrera maintains research interests in Queer Theory, Trans Studies, New Materialism, and Border Studies as these fields coalesce around questions of reproduction, nature, and the erotic. She is actively developing a theory of "queer transitivity" for her first book manuscript. She is also revising an article on Héctor Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier for publication. More information on Herrera's previous work and biography can be found on her website.
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