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Trevor Boffone, October 2016

Trevor Boffone
Curriculum Vitae

Department of Hispanic Studies

The University of Houston
416 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3062

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Spanish, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, 2016
Dissertation: Performing Eastside Latinidad: Josefina Lpez and Theater for Social
Change in Boyle Heights
Committee: Nicols Kanellos (chair), Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Guillermo de los Reyes,
Marci R. McMahon
M.A. Hispanic Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies, Villanova University, 2011
B.A.

Spanish, Department of Languages and Cultures, Loyola University New Orleans, 2008

Graduate Certificates
Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Houston, 2015

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-Present Lecturer of Spanish, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Houston
2016-Present Lecturer of LGBT Studies, Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program,
University of Houston
2011-2012

Instructor of Spanish, Division of Arts & Humanities, Delgado Community

College

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Eastside Latinidad: Josefina Lpez, Community, and Social Change in Los Angeles. Under
Review with University of X Press.

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Encuentro 2014: Encountering Latina/o Theatre and Performance. Under Review with X
University Press.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
forthcoming

La Llorona on Stage: Re-visiting Chicana Cultural Paradigms in Josefina

Lpezs Unconquered Spirits." Latin American Theatre Review.

forthcoming

"Biopoder, biopoltica y necropoltica: representaciones de los feminicidios de

Jurez en 2666 de Roberto Bolao y Desert Blood de Alicia Gaspar de Alba."
Hipertexto. Issue 20.

2015

Tragic Bitches: Queer Xican@ Performance Acts against Oblivion. The Rocky
Mountain Review. 69.2: 148-64.

2015

Mexican-American Women on the San Antonio Stage (1910-1919). Upstage.

Issue 7.

2015

Bodies in Dissent, Cuerpos de resistencia: La Queer X-X-Xicana Flesh of

Theory en Las Hociconas de Adelina Anthony. GESTOS: Revista de teora y
prctica de teatro hispnico. 59: 67-79.

2014

"A Wild Zone' of Her Own: Locating the Chicana Experience in the Theatre
Works of Josefina Lpez. Gender Forum. 48.

2013

Angelina Elizondo de Garca Naranjo: Defender of Traditional Mexican

Femininity in the Exile Press. Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture. 3.1:
107-27.

2013

Una Cubano-americanita en La Habana: la condicin nostlgica en Rum & Coke

de Carmen Pelez." Voces del Caribe 5.1: 241-74.

2013

Detenida en la frontera: La conciencia de la mestiza en Detained in the Desert de

Josefina Lpez. Label Me Latina/o. Spring 3.

2013

La vejez y muerte de Bradomn: la esperpentizacin del mito donjuanesco en

Sonata de invierno de Ramn del Valle Incln. Hispanet Journal. 6.

2011

Cambio y viaje personal: al descubrir el ser femenino en Ana en el Trpico de

Nilo Cruz. Label Me Latina/o. Fall 1.

Book Chapters
in press

Border Dwellers, Lloronas, and Nepantleras: Bridging the Anzalda Archive and
Mercedes Floresislass Tamales de Puerco. El Mundo Zurdo 5. Eds. Domino
Perez, Sonia Saldvar-Hull, and Larissa Mercado-Lpez. Aunt Lute Press.

2016

Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama

and Performance. (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape: New Works
and New Directions. Eds. Cristina Herrera and Larissa Mercado-Lpez. Palgrave
Macmillan. 177-190.

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2015

Mestiza Consciousness and la facultad in the Borderlands: Josefina

Lpezs Detained in the Desert." El Mundo Zurdo 4. Eds. Sonia Saldvar-Hull,
Larissa Mercado-Lpez, and Jackie Cuevas. Aunt Lute Press. 181-95.

Peer-Reviewed Blog Post

2015

Deaf Latin@ Performance: Listening with the Third Ear. Sounding Out!: The
Sound Studies Blog. August 3.

Book Reviews
2016

Garca-Romero, Anne. The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and

the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes. Theatre Journal, 68: 485-6.

2015

McMahon, Marci R. Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and SelfFashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art. Border-Lines 4: 114.

Performance Reviews
2016

Queering Machismo from Michoacn to Montrose: Purple Eyes by Josh

Inocncio. Caf Onda: Journal of the Latina/o Theatre Commons. July 14.
http://howlround.com/queering-machismo-from-michoac-n-to-montrose-purpleeyes-by-josh-inoc-ncio

2016

Demanding Action and Attention to Latina/o Theatre in Dallas: Deferred Action

by David Lozano and Lee Trull. Caf Onda: Journal of the Latina/o Theatre
Commons. June 30. http://howlround.com/demanding-action-and-attention-tolatinao-theatre-in-dallas-deferred-action-by-david-lozano-and-lee

2015

Josefina Lpezs Piata Dreams in East Los Angeles. Latin American Theatre
Review, 49.1: 163-5.

In Submission
Taking Hamilton to the Streets: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Latinidad, and the Aesthetics of
Accessibility. Theatre Topics.
Web-Based Publications
2016

Houston, We Have a Problem!: Excluding Latina/o Stories in Tejas. Caf

Onda: Journal of the Latina/o Theatre Commons. June 19. Available at:
http://howlround.com/houston-we-have-a-problem-excluding-latinao-stories-intejas

2016

Que Onda? with Alex Lacamoire, music director of Hamilton. Caf Onda:
Journal of the Latina/o Theatre Commons. April 1. Available at:
http://howlround.com/que-onda-with-alex-lacamoire-music-director-of-hamilton

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2016

Ham4Ham: Taking Hamilton to the Streets. Caf Onda: Journal of the Latina/o
Theatre Commons. March 18. Available at: http://howlround.com/ham4hamtaking-hamilton-to-the-streets

2016

#LTCdallas: Challenges, Opportunities, and Reflections of the Texas Latina/o

Theatre Community. Caf Onda: Journal of the Latina/o Theatre Commons.
March 2. Available at: http://howlround.com/ltcdallas-challenges-opportunitiesand-reflections-of-the-texas-latinao-theatre-community

2015

Que Onda? with Josefina Lpez and CASA 0101 Theater. Caf Onda: Journal
of the Latina/o Theatre Commons. November 23. Available at:
http://howlround.com/que-onda-with-josefina-l-pez-and-casa-0101-theater

2015

Cafecito: Magdalena Gmez. Caf Onda: Journal of the Latina/o Theatre

Commons. August 27. Available at: http://howlround.com/cafecito-magdalena-gmez

2015

The State of Latina/o Theater in Texas. Caf Onda: Journal of the Latina/o
Theatre Commons. June 5. Available at: http://howlround.com/the-state-oflatinao-theatre-in-texas

2014

Archiving the Past, Present, and Future of Teatro. Caf Onda: Journal of the
Latina/o Theatre Commons. October 17. Available at:
http://howlround.com/archiving-the-past-present-and-future-of-teatro

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2016

Latina/o Theatre Commons Seattle Convening Travel Award, Latina/o Theatre

Commons and Howlround, Emerson College

2015

Latina/o Theatre Commons Dallas Convening Travel Award, Latina/o Theatre

Commons and Howlround, Emerson College

2015

Carnaval of New Latina/o Work Travel Award, Latina/o Theatre Commons and
Howlround, Emerson College

2015

Student Fellowship, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference

2012-2015

Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship, University of Houston

2012-2015

Presidential Graduate Fellowship, University of Houston

2012-2015

Spanish Ph.D. Endowed Fellowship, University of Houston

2015

Ins Kanellos Scholarship, University of Houston

2015

Dr. Harvey L. Johnson Scholarship, University of Houston

2015

Department of Hispanic Studies Travel Stipend, University of Houston

2014

Benson Latin American Collection Short-Term Research Fellowship, Center for

Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

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2014

Womens Studies Graduate Certificate Travel Grant, University of Houston

2014

Student Fellowship, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference

2014

Dr. Harvey L. Johnson Scholarship, University of Houston

2014

Department of Hispanic Studies Travel Stipend, University of Houston

2013

In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, & Political Economy Travel Stipend,

Northwestern University

2013

Dr. Harvey L. Johnson Scholarship, University of Houston

2011

Graduate Student Travel Funding, Villanova University

2009-2011

Graduate Student Tuition Fellowship, Villanova University

INVITED TALKS
2016

Queering Machismo from Michoacn to Montrose: Josh Inocncios Purple

Eyes, Houston Community College-Southeast, April 20.

2016

Restaging Chicana Identity across the Borderlands: The Panza Monologues as

Theater for Social Change, Loyola University New Orleans, March 3.

2015

Wild Tongues Cannot Be Tamed: Chicana Borderland Poetics and Theater for
Social Change, Saarland University, Germany, June 24.

2015

To All the Panzas in the World, with Love, Houston Community CollegeSoutheast, April 22.

2014

Latin@ Theater in Texas, Alvin Community College, November 20.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2016

Hamilton: The Development, Casting, and Performance of a New American

Musical, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago, IL,
August 11-14.

2016

Performing Chican@ Alter-Native Cultures in Los Angeles, Latina/o Studies

Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, July 7-9.

2016

Restaging Chican@ Dramatic Literature and Performance across the

Borderlands, American Literature Association Symposium on Frontiers and
Borders in American Literature, San Antonio, TX, February 25-27.

2016

Escribo por lo tanto soy: Latin@ Poetics, Aesthetics, and Creative Writing,
National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Lone Star
College, Houston, TX, February 18-20.

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2016

Latina/o and Indigenous Theatre across the Curriculum, Texas Education

Theatre Association Academic Symposium, Dallas, TX, January 28-31.

2015

The I-10 Chican@ Renaissance from Califas to Tejaztln: Identity, Social

Change, and (Re)writing the City, American Literature Association Symposium
on The City and American Literature, New Orleans, LA, September 10-12.

2015

Chican@/Latin@ Teatro and Performance through an Anzaldan Lens, El

Mundo Zurdo: The International Conference on the Life and Works of Gloria
Anzalda, Austin, TX, May 27-30.

2015

Lloronas, Flacas y Gringas: Myth and Womanhood in Contemporary Latina

Fiction, Teatro, and Performance, The 2nd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and
Criticism Conference, John Jay College, New York, NY, April 23-25.

2015

The State of Chican@ and Latin@ Teatro in Tejas, Chican@ and Latin@
Film, Teatro, and Performance in Houston, Tejas, National Association of
Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Lone Star College, Houston, TX,
February 26-28.

Papers
2016

Performing Nepantla: Adelina Anthony as Anzaldan Border Crosser in Las

Hociconas, El Mundo Zurdo: The International Conference on the Life and
Works of Gloria Anzalda, San Antonio, TX, November 3-5.

2016

Critical Introduction to Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-century US

Popular Culture by Brian Eugenio Herrera, Association of Theatre in Higher
Education Conference, Chicago, IL, August 11-14. (Invited)

2016

From the White House to Broadway: Lin-Manuel Miranda, or Hamilton as Solo

Performance, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago,
IL, August 11-14.

2016

Queer Eastside Latinidad: Coming Out, Brown & Out in Boyle Heights,
Latina/o Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, July 7-9.

2016

Restaging Chicana Identity from San Anto to Scottsdale: The Panza Monologues
as Theater for Social Change across the Borderlands, American Literature
Association Symposium on Frontiers and Borders in American Literature, San
Antonio, TX, February 25-27.

2016

Healing Trauma and Finding the Creative Voice with Josefina Lpez, National
Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Lone Star College,
Houston, TX, February 18-20.

2016

Making Theater, Making History: The Latina/o Theatre Commons Dallas

Convening, Texas Education Theatre Association Academic Symposium, Dallas,
TX, January 28-31.

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2015

Playwriting the City: Chican@ Theater for Social Change in East Los Angeles,
American Literature Association Symposium on The City and American
Literature, New Orleans, LA, September 10-12.

2015

Familia as a Catalyst for Social Change: Family, Communal Memory, and

Theater in Boyle Heights, Association of Theatre in Higher Education
Conference, Montreal, CA, July 30-August 2.

2015

Real Women Have Archives: Memory, Neglect, and Performance in the Josefina
Lpez Archive, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference,
Montreal, CA, July 30-August 2.

2015

Contesting Herstory, Conversing with the Archive: Recovering the Roles of

Women in Mexican-American Theater, Association of Theatre in Higher
Education Conference, Montreal, CA, July 30-August 2.

2015

How to [Un]Tame a Wild Tongue: Performing Silence and Trilingual Identidad

in Floresislass Tamales de Puerco, El Mundo Zurdo: The International
Conference on the Life and Works of Gloria Anzalda, Austin, TX, May 27-30.

2015

Chicanas, Cholas y Chisme as Community-Based Pedagogy, The 2nd Biennial

Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, John Jay College, New York,
NY, April 23-25.

2015

La Llorona on Stage: Performing the Weeping Woman in Josefina Lpezs

Unconquered Spirits, The 2nd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism
Conference, John Jay College, New York, NY, April 23-25.

2015

Building Boyle Heights: Comunidad, Collective Teatro, and the Chicanas,

Cholas y Chisme Theater Festival, National Association of Chicana and Chicano
Studies, San Francisco, CA, April 15-18.

2015

Real Women Have Archives: Remembering Josefina Lpezs Boyle Heights,

National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Francisco, CA, April
15-18.

2015

San Anto, Panza Capital of the World: Bridging the Body, Space, and
Community in The Panza Monologues, National Association of Chicana and
Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Lone Star College, Houston, TX, February 26-28.

2014

Staging Contemporary Queer Chicanisma, South Central Modern Language

Association Conference, Austin, TX, October 12-22.

2014

Desert Desolation: (Re)locating the Chicana Experience in Josefina Lpezs

Detained in the Desert, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference,
Scottsdale, AZ, July 24-27.

2014

Chicana Lesbians on Stage: then, now y despus, American Literature

Association Symposium: The Latina/o Literary Landscape, San Antonio, TX,
March 6-8.

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2014

Bodies in Dissent, Cuerpos de resistencia: La Queer X-X-Xicana Flesh of

Theory in Adelina Anthonys Las Hociconas, National Association of Chicana
and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX,
February 21-23.

2013

Mestiza Consciousness and la facultad on the Border: Josefina Lpezs Detained

in the Desert, El Mundo Zurdo: The International Conference on the Life and
Works of Gloria Anzalda, San Antonio, TX, November 14-16.

2013

"Misunderstood Malinches: Performing Chicanas Violadas in Josefina Lpez's

Confessions of Women from East LA," In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect,
& Political Economy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, October 11-13.

2013

Detained in the Borderlands: Chicana Consciousness in Detained in the Desert

by Josefina Lpez, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas
Foco, University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, TX, February 21-23.

2011

Surviving the Mental Shipwreck: Palomos Life-Altering Transformation in Nilo

Cruzs Anna in the Tropics, Carolina Conference on Romance Languages,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, March 22-24.

Round Tables
Pushing buttons, pushing boundaries: contemporary Latina/o Theater and
Performance scholarship methods/practicesa Long Table Discussion, Latina/o
Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, July 7-9.

2016

Invited Chair
2015

Immigrants in the City, American Literature Association Symposium on The

City and American Literature, New Orleans, LA, September 10-12.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Houston
Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Sole Instructor
Introduction to LGBT Studies (fall 2016, spring 2017)
Department of Hispanic Studies, Sole Instructor
Intensive Elementary Spanish (fall 2016)
Intensive Intermediate Spanish (hybrid course) (spring 2016)
Department of Hispanic Studies, Instructor of Record
Elementary Spanish I (fall 2012)
Elementary Spanish II (spring 2013, fall 2015)
Intermediate Spanish I (fall 2013, spring 2015, summer 2015)

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Intermediate Spanish II (spring 2014)
Spanish Oral Communication for Critical Thinking (fall 2014)
Delgado Community College, Division of Arts & Humanities, Sole Instructor
Elementary Spanish I (fall 2011, spring 2012)
Elementary Spanish II (fall 2011, spring 2012)
Villanova University, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Instructor of
Record
Elementary Spanish I (fall 2009)
Elementary Spanish II (spring 2010, fall 2010)
Intermediate Spanish II (spring 2011)
Study Abroad Teaching Assistant in Cdiz, Spain (summer 2011)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Review
Essay Reviewer, Label Me Latina/o, 2012-Present
Essay Reviewer, Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature, 2014-2015
To Profession
Chair, NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award Committee, 2015-2017
Editorial Board Member, Caf Onda: The Journal of the Latina/o Theatre Commons,
HowlRound, 2015-Present
Executive Committee Member, Coastal Plains Graduate Liberal Arts Conference, 2013-2015
Editorial Assistant, Ecumenica: Journal of Theatre and Performance, 2015
Editorial Assistant, Sexuality, Gender, and Policy Journal, 2014
Executive Committee Member, NACCS Tejas Foco, 2014-2016
To Community
National Steering Committee Member, Latina/o Theatre Commons, 2015-Present
Founding Editor, 50 Playwrights Project, 2016-Present
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force, Stages Repertory Theatre, 2016-Present
Resource Generation Committee Member, Translation Committee Member, Latina/o Theatre
Commons, 2015-Present
Invited Judge, Slam Poets @ Alley Theatre Spring Teen Slam, Houston, TX, March 4, 2016.

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Invited Judge, Slam Poets @ Alley Theatre Fall Teen Slam, Houston, TX, November 21, 2015.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Latina/o Theatre Commons Steering Committee
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Latinx, Indigenous, and the Americas Focus Group, Association of Theatre in Higher
Education
Society for the Study of Gloria Anzalda
Latina/o Literature Society, American Literature Association
South Central Modern Language Association
Rocky Mountain Language Association
Texas Educational Theatre Association
Texas Theatre Adjudicators & Officials
Sigma Delta Pi, Hispanic Honor Society
Pi Delta Phi, French Honor Society

LANGUAGES
English: Native speaker
Spanish: Near-native fluency
French: Advanced intermediate reading, writing, speaking
German: Elementary reading, writing, speaking

REFERENCES
Nicols Kanellos, Ph.D.
Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies
Director of Arte Pblico Press and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project
The University of Houston
416 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3062
(713) 743-3128
kanellos@uh.edu
Marci McMahon, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor of English
The University of TexasRo Grande Valley
ARHU 237
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999
(956) 665-3425
mcmahonmr@utrgv.edu
Teresa Marrero, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
University of North Texas
Department of Foreign Language and Literatures
Language Building, Room Number: 403 J
1155 Union Circle
Denton, TX 76203
(940) 565-2404
marrero@unt.edu
Cristina Herrera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chicano Studies
California State University, Fresno
Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies
5340 North Campus Drive M/S SS97
Fresno, CA 93740
(559) 278-2123
cherrera@csufresno.edu