Socorro Tabuenca

Maria Socorro Tabuenca is the Academic Director for the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies and Professor of Spanish at UTEP. She obtained her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, an M.A. in Spanish Literature and a B.A. in Foreign Languages from the University of Texas at El Paso. Tabuenca-Córdoba is the author of Mujeres y fronteras. Una perspectiva de género (CONACULTA/ICHICULT, 1998), and co-author of Lo que el viento a Juárez. Testimonios de una ciudad que se obstina (with Ricardo Aguilar; U. Iberoamericana/Ediciones Nimbus, 2000), Border Women. Writing from la frontera (with Debra Castillo; University of Minnesota Press, 2002). She is a co-editor of Gobernabilidad e ingobernabilidad en la region Paso del Norte (with Luis Antonio Payán; El Colef/UACJ, NMSU/Editorial Eón, 2004), and Bordeando la violencia contra las mujeres en la frontera norte de México (with Julia Monárrez Fragoso, El Colef, 2007). Professor Tabuenca has published in national and international journals mainly on border Mexican women writers, borders’ theories, Chicano/a film and literature, border cultural production, and her recent research is on Juárez femicide and its impact on the Media. She has also published various chapters on other books in Mexico, the United States and the Netherlands.