Nicola Chávez Courtright
Research Interests
Affect; political life; queer/cuir theory; trans studies; homonationalism; anthropology of social movements; archival methods; phenomenology; precarity; gender; transnationalism; El Salvador; Central America
Publications
“Registros fantasmas de una desaparición ” for Corporalidades combativas: Género y sexualidades en la Guerra Interna salvadoreña (1970-1992). CLACSO Ediciones. Under review as of July 2024.
“Soñar profundo: Imaginando la sáfica posguerra salvadoreña [Deep Dreaming translation]” in Saberes LGBTI+: Alteridades sexuales centroamericanas en el bicentenario. Ed Amaral Arévalo et al. Translation Alex Golcher Stone. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2022; 275-300.
“Deep Dreaming: Imagining the Sapphic Salvadoran Postwar” GLQ 27 (3), special issue “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable,” June 2021, 407- 429.
“Más allá del Lempa: Personas sexogenéricamente diversas en el Oriente de El Salvador” Co-authored with Carlos Cortez Tejada. Identidades No.13, Dirección Nacional de Investigaciones en Cultura y Arte , San Salvador, El Salvador. November 2019; 77-103.
“LGBTQ Displacement from El Salvador.” Hot Spots, Society for Cultural Anthropology website (January 2019). https://culanth.org/fieldsights/bound-up-in-each-other-salvadoran-lgbt-displacement
Awards & Grants
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow. September 2023.
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow. University of California-Los Angeles. 2020-2025.
Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award Recipient. University of California-Los Angeles. 2020-2025.
Degrees
B.A. in Latin American Studies from Hampshire College; M.A. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California
