Title/s: Professor & Department Chair
Professor, Chair of the English Department, Affiliate in Women's Studies and Gender Studies
Office #: Crown Center 415
Phone: 773.508.8470
Email: sbost@luc.edu
My work focuses on the intersections of Women’s and Gender Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies with literature. Building from my cross-cultural and interdisciplinary training, I have published numerous essays on Latinx literature, feminist theory, disability studies, posthumanism, and popular culture, with a particular focus on ethics and futurity. I’ve also been writing quite a bit about the Gloria Anzaldúa archives and the weird research processes that emerge from my work there. In the past five years, my writing and my teaching have become increasingly experimental, moving away from traditional literary arguments and towards more speculative, embodied, and cross-genre practices. My newest book focuses on ethical alternatives to liberal humanism – queer ecologies, webs of relation, and trans-species lifeforms – in the works of John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria Anzaldúa.
Transformative education is the most important thing I do, and I truly enjoy learning with and from my students.
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