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Sandra K. Soto is assistant professor of Women's Studies, co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin (2001). Her interdisciplinary research agenda draws on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary studies, queer theory, and gender studies to offer innovative approaches to the overdetermined terrain of social relations, cultural representation, and knowledge production. She is completing a postdoctoral fellow with the Latino/a Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is completing a book manuscript, Queering Aztlán: Subjectivity, Desire, and the Challenge of Racialized Sexuality in Chicana/o Literature, that replaces the race-based oppositional paradigm of Chicano literary studies with a less didactic, more flexible, framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Her second project, tentatively titled Localizing Transnationalism, pursues unlikely connections between critical transnational studies and U.S. ethnic studies. Her teaching interests include Chicana and Latina literary and cultural studies, feminist theory, transnational feminisms, critical race studies, US Third World Feminism, and queer theory.