Domino Renee Perez is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies, specializing in Young Adult Fiction, Mexican American and Latinx Literature, 20 and 21st Century American Literature, Film, Popular Culture, and Cultural Studies.
Perez’s forthcoming book Fatherhood in Borderlands “reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. She also calls attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed such a racialized representation of Mexican American fathers to continue, unopposed, for so many years. Fatherhood in the Borderlands brings readers right to the intersection of the white cultural mainstream in the United States and Mexican American cultural productions, carefully considering the legibility and illegibility of Brown fathers in contemporary media” (UT Press).
Her book There Was a Woman: La Llorona From Folklore to Popular Culture (UT Press, 2008) examines La Llorona, the weeping woman, one of the most famous figures in US/Mexican folklore. She co-edited a book on Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2018), as well as published numerous book chapters and articles on topics ranging from film and Indigeneity in Mexican American studies to young adult fiction and folklore.
She is the recipient of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, a University of Texas system-wide honor in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching.