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Laura G. Gutiérrez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona where she teaches on Latin American and Latina/o Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Cultural Studies. She also holds an affiliate appointment in the Center for Latin American Studies. She received her BA (1991) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her MA (1994) and Ph.D. (2000) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to the U of A, she was Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. Gutiérrez first arrived on the U of A campus as a resident fellow in the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project (a Rockefeller-funded project), 2003-4, and was later awarded the César E. Chavez Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is based in the College of Humanities, 2004-5. Drawing from an interdisciplinary cultural studies framework and using a feminist theory and queer theory angle, Gutiérrez has written essays and published essays on topics dealing with contemporary Mexican video art, Mexican political cabaret, and Chicana performance, and Latina/o literature. She is currently finishing her manuscript on contemporary Mexican and Chicana performance and video art, Unsettling Comforts: Sexualities in Contemporary Mexican and Chicana Performance and embarking on research for a second book project on the female body's movement (across geo-political divides and across the stage) in cabaretera films from the so-called golden age film 'archives'.