Gema Pérez-Sánchez

Gema Pérez-Sánchez is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami where she also teaches for the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Miami Institute for the Americas. Her research focuses on contemporary Spanish narrative, film, and popular urban culture; cultural studies; queer theory; and migration and transnational studies. She is the author of the book Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to La Movida (SUNY Press 2007). Her research has appeared in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos; Revista Iberoamericana; Journal of Language and Sexuality; University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform; Michigan Journal of Race & Law; Hispamérica; The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies; Letras Femeninas; Orientaciones; and several essay collections, such as The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature.