Giancarlo Cornejo
Giancarlo Cornejo
Assistant Professor
Affiliation:
Gender Studies
Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall
Email: gcornejos@ucla.edu
Biography
Giancarlo Cornejo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining UCLA in 2023, he was Assistant Professor in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. His essays have appeared in journals such as Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, Estudos Feministas, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. His book manuscript, tentatively titled Travesti Memory: Toward a Peruvian Transfeminist Imaginary, proposes travestismo as a critical tool to read the unstable and contested production of gender, sexuality, and race in contemporary Latin America.
Education
B.A., Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2008
Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Research Interests
Transgender Studies; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory; Film and Media Studies; Latin American Studies
Selected Publications
“Las otras memorias de Gio Infante: Repensar la homotransfobia y la violencia política en el Perú contemporáneo” (“Gio infante’s Other Memories: Rethinking Homotransphobia and Political Violence in Contemporary Peru”). Revista de Estudios Sociales 83 (2023): 121-137.
“Thinking Travesti Tears: Reading Loxoro.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 36, no. 3 (2021): 33-59.
“The Sedgwickian Queerness of an Anime Lesbian: Reading Revolutionary Girl Utena.” Lectora: Revista de dones i textualitat 27 (2021): 211-226.
“Tras el imaginario feminista en ‘La Leva’ de Pedro Lemebel” (Tracing the Feminist Imaginary in Pedro Lemebel’s ‘La Leva’). Nomadías 29 (2020): 137-153.
“LGBT Studies Without LGBT Studies: Mapping Alternative Pathways in Perú and Colombia.” Co-authored with Juliana Martínez and Salvador Vidal Ortiz. Journal of Homosexuality 67, no. 3 (2020): 417-434.
“Travesti Dreams Outside in the Ethnographic Machine.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25, no. 3 (2019): 457-482.
“(Des)Encuentros anales con la identidad: Explorando los límites de la representación en el movimiento TLGB peruano” (“Anal (Dis)encounters with Identity: Exploring the Limits of Representation in the Peruvian TLGB Movement”). Nomadías 19 (2015): 131-146. Reprinted as: “Desencuentros con la identidad en el movimiento LGBT peruano.” Periódicus 3, no. 1 (2015): 170-182.
“For a Queer Pedagogy of Friendship.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 3 (2014): 352-367. Translated into Portuguese as: “Por uma pedagogia queer da amizade.” Áskesis 4, no. 1 (2015): 130-142.
“Las políticas reparativas del movimiento LGBT peruano: Narrativas de afectos queer” (“The Reparative Politics of the Peruvian LGBT Movement: Narratives of Queer Affects”). Estudos Feministas 22, no. 1 (2014): 257-275.
“Fronteras que matan: Autoritarismos y homo-transfobias” (“Borders that Kill: Authoritarianism and Homo-transphobias”). In: Sombras coloniales y globalización en el Perú de hoy. Ed: Gonzalo Portocarrero. Lima: Red para el desarrollo de las ciencias sociales en el Perú, 2013. 227-237. Reprinted in: Revista de antropología experimental 14 (2014): 151-158. Translated into Portuguese as: “Fronteiras que matam: Autoritarismos e homo-transfobias”. Dilemas 13, no. 1 (2020): 261-271.
“Contra la familia: ¿Cómo hacer justicia a los niños afeminados?” (“Against the Family: How to Do Justice to the Effeminate Boys?”). Nómadas 35 (2011): 139-154.
“La guerra declarada contra el niño afeminado: Una autoetnografía queer” (“The War Against the Effeminate Boys: A Queer Autoethnography”). Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales 39 (2011): 79-95. Shorter version translated into Portuguese as: “A guerra declarada contra o menino afeminado.” In: Teoria queer: Um aprendizado pelas diferenças. Richard Miskolci. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, 2012. 69-78.
