Luz Calvo Faculty Profile

• Food Justice
• Decolonial Theory
• Visual Culture
• Sexuality Studies
• Latino/a Culture

• A.B., Politics, Princeton University
• M.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
• Ph.D History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Not teaching this semester.

Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Recipes for Health and Healing. Co-authored with Catriona Rueda Esquibel. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015. 

“Decolonize Your Diet: A Manifesto.” Co-authored with Catriona Rueda Esquibel. nineteen sixty nine: an Ethnic Studies Journal. Volume 1, Issue 2. 2013. 

“Our Queer Kin.” Co-authored with Catriona Rueda Esquibel. Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, Eds. Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martinez. Duke University Press, 2011 [Winner, 2012 Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Anthology category]

 “Latina Lesbians, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences,” co-authored with Catriona Rueda Esquibel. Latina/o Sexualities, Marysol Ascencio, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010, 217-229.

Review of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities by Laura Pérez; Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader, edited by Antonia Castañeda et al; and Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures, edited by Elizabeth Montes Garcés. Book review co-authored with Catriona Rueda Esquibel. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 34:1, Autumn 2008, 218-222.

 “Racial Fantasies and the Primal Scene of Miscegenation.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Volume 56, No. 1, February 2008, 44-58.

 “Embodied at the Shrine of Cultural Disjuncture.” Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation. Eds. Angela Y. Davis and Neferti X. Tadiar. New York: Palgrave Press, 2005, 207-218.

“Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Vol. 5 No. 1, Autumn 2004, 201-224.

“‘Lemme Stay, I Want to Watch’: Ambivalence in Borderlands Cinema.” Latina/o Popular Culture, edited by Michelle Habell-Pallán and Mary Romero. New York: New York University Press, 2002, 73-84. 

Contributor, Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, General Editors. New York: Oxford University Press. [Entries on Transgender, Alma Lopez, and Laura Aguilar.] 2005.

• Decolonize Your Diet