Alvina Quintana
Biography
Dr. Quintana’s publications include articles on multicultural literature and cinema studies. Aside from book chapters and articles, she has published three books: Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices, Temple University Press and Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature, Palgrave/Macmillan Press and the co-edited FEMINIST CYBERSPACES: PEDAGOGY IN TRANSITION, Cambridge Scholar’s Press. Her research interests focus on feminist theory; sexuality and difference; new technologies, transnational gender studies with a particular emphasis on the intersections between U.S. Latino/as and Latin American cultural practices; multiculturalism in the U.S.A and abroad; the internationalization of American Studies. She is currently working on a book that reconceptualizes American literary practices and a documentary film that explores notions of transculturation and the Black Pacific.