Trans man best friend, and the detective assigned to the case. It is an erotic murder mystery set on a university campus that features the sexual adventures of a Chicana lesbian professor, her Her third book, Electra's Complex was nominated for the According to Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association "Forgetting the Alamo, Or Blood Memory" proposes that sexuality and gender are inextricably linked to language, culture, and race, something that has been under-theorized in many articulations of queer and feminist theory". Forgetting the Alamo won theĬhristopher Isherwood Writing Grant in 2009, the National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies Regional Book Award for fiction in 2011 and was a finalist for the It is suggested that the novel "inverts the traditional Alamo narrative" in order to highlight the racial violence of that historic event. It is a tale of travel and adventure that narrates the story of a youngĬross-dressing tejana and her romance with a mixed race woman, both of whom are witnesses to the racial complexities of the southwest during this turbulent period.
Her second novel, published in 2009, Forgetting the Alamo, Or Blood Memory, is a historical fiction set against the backdrop of the 1836 battles of the It touches on childhood sexual abuse, the legacies of colonialism, sexual repression, and same-sex desire and is considered to be one of the first Chicana lesbian novels in print. Pérez's first literary work, Gulf Dreams, published in 1996, is a coming of age story set in a small racist Texas town. University of Arizona where she is also a professor in the
Since 2017, Pérez has been a research social scientist at the Southwest Studies Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and taught in their Ph.D.
In 2003, she became a professor and the chair of the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso (1990–2003), where she became the Chair of the History Department. She obtained her master's and doctorate in history from the University of California, Los Angeles in 19, respectively. In 1979, she received an undergraduate degree in political science and women's studies from the Emma Pérez is an American author and professor, known for her work in queer Chicana feminist studies.Įl Campo, Texas in October 25, 1954.
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