The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies

Jorge Sánchez Cruz holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside, 2018. His research operates at the intersection of Latin(o) American literary and cultural studies, queer and trans studies, indigenous and performance studies, and critical theory. 

His current manuscript, Aesthetics of Dissent: AIDS and Sexual Politics in the Americas, investigates how the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1990s and new emerging embodiments of this century have reconfigured subjectivity, sexually, corporeally and racially. This project argues that it is through literary, cultural and visual practices we can see, feel, and engage with minoritarian subjects’ modes of quotidian and communal acts of prolonging non-normative life.  

Before coming to UPenn, Jorge was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the program of Critical Theory at Northwestern University.