Giancarlo Cornejo

Giancarlo Cornejo

Assistant Professor

Affiliation: Gender Studies

Research Interest

Transgender Studies; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory; Film and Media Studies; Latin American Studies

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. His essays have appeared in journals such as Revista de Estudios Sociales, Camera Obscura, Lectora, GLQ, and TSQ. His book Travesti Memory: The Method of Peruvian Transfeminism is forthcoming with the University of Texas Press.

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
  • B.A., Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2008