In the inaugural episode for Audio QT, Dr. Karma Chavez, sits down with Dr. Laura Gutiérrez, a professor of Latin American and Latina/o performance studies; visual cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; feminist theory; queer theory; race and racial formations; and inter-American and transnational studies.

Laura G. Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Her primary research and teaching areas of interest are: Latin American, Mexican and Latina/o embodied practices, gender and sexuality, and questions of nation, modernity and the transnational. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (U Texas P, 2010), which won The Ninth Annual MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. Gutiérrez has published essays and book chapters in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Culture Studies, Transformations, Spectator, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Latin American Literary Review, Feminist Media Studies, Global Mexican Cultural Productions, Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities.

This episode of Audio QT was recorded by Evan Sherer and was mixed and mastered by Lydia Fortuna and Brittany Marsh.