Debbie Duarte
- Assistant Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Transnational Studies; Chicanx-Latinx Transnational Studies Field Group
- Debbie_Duarte@pitzer.edu
- Phone
- (909) 607-5486
- Office Location
Fletcher 202
- Office Hours
- Contact Professor
Debbie M. Duarte Sánchez is an Assistant Professor of Chicano/a Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. They completed their postdoctoral research as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside. They hold a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- PhD Literature, UC Santa Cruz
- B.A. Latin American Latinx Studies, UC Santa Cruz
- (Un)Documenting Fugitivity: Border Crossings and Unsettling Narratives (CHLT 181)
- Queer World-Making in Latinx and Latin American Speculative Fiction (CHLT 138)
- Decolonial Borderlands Ecocriticism (CHLT 158)
“How to Undocument a Narrative” Borderlands Section, Public Books, September 14, 2022.
"Border Screen(ings), Or How to Undocument a Body". Screen Bodies 10.1 (2025): 27-42. <https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2025.100104>. Web. 14 Nov. 2025.
"Alien Toy Takes a Joyride: Sensing Borderless Futurities.” Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge in Contemporary Culture, The Latinx Project, NYU. October 10, 2025
“Undocumenting the Body: The Corporeal Possibilities of Living on the Line.” Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference. May 23-23, 2025.
“Ghosts, Futurity, and the Politics of Revenge: Haunting at the US Mexico Borderlands.” Invited talk for the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced. March 20, 2025.
“TV Capital: Immortality & the Borderlands.” Operativity and Digital Capture Symposium part of Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World, UC Riverside ARTS. January 11, 2025.
Presenter & Co-Organizer, Undocu-Theorizations Conference, UC Santa Cruz, April 26-27th, 2024.