Christina A León, Associate Professor of Literature

Christina A. León is Associate Professor of Literature, Romance Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies at Duke University, in addition to being a core faculty member of the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. She specializes in literary, anticolonial, critical race, feminist, and queer theories, with a concentration on Latinx and Caribbean literature, art, and thought. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay of materiality and semiosis to better theorize and attend to works by authors and artists who often become known only through their identificatory markers, overdetermined by grammars of race and gender. She is the author of Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad (NYU Press 2024). Her articles and essays have been published in Women and Performance, ASAP/Journal, Diacritics, GLQ, Sargasso, Small Axe, Representations, and Post-45. She serves as the co-editor of the Gender Theory book series at SUNY Press.  

Contact Info:

Office Location:	104 Friedl, Durham, NC 27708
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Education:

Ph.D.

Emory University

2014

Recent Publications

1. León, CA, Matters of Inscription Reading Figures of Latinidad (August, 2024), pp. 304 pages, NYU Press, ISBN 9781479816774  [abs]
2. León, C, Knots in the Throat, Representations, vol. 162 no. 1 (May, 2023), pp. 109-124, University of California Press [doi]  [abs]
3. León, CA, Exorbitant Dust, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 27 no. 3 (June, 2021), pp. 357-377, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]
4. León, CA, Risking Catachresis: Reading Race, Reference, and Grammar in “Women”, Diacritics, vol. 49 no. 1 (2021), pp. 61-71, Project MUSE [doi]