杏吧原创

Biography

Vargas Cervantes teaches, writes, and curates. She is internationally recognized for her artistic work at the intersections of alternative criminology, visual studies, and queer studies鈥攊n both Anglo North America and Latin America. She has co-curated exhibitions at Tate Britain, Museo Jumex, and Ford Foundation Gallery. After a Fulbright stay at Columbia University, she joined 杏吧原创 University as a professor in Communication and Media Studies. Her work has been featured in Photographers Gallery, Luna Cornea, Frieze, I-D, Vice, El Pa铆s, CBS Inside Edition, Radio Canada, BBC, Musee Magazine. She has been invited to present her work at the New Museum (NYC), Museo Universitario de Arte Contempor谩neo (MX), Museo Jumex (MX), Beursschouwburg (BE), amongst others. She is the author of the book The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico鈥檚 First Female Serial Killer (NYU Press, 2019) made into a Netflix Documentary, Mujercitos (Editorial RM, 2015) and Service Top: Bad Bunny, mirando la鈥� estrella鈥� sin telescopio (Gato Negro, 2023). She is currently working on two major projects: a manuscript on Alarma! Photography of violence and affects and her first documentary feature film: El Bautizo de la Chilaquil, the untold story of female (homo)sexuality in Mexico.

Her research has been supported by the Faculty of Public Affairs (杏吧原创), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Fulbright Fellowship, Fonds Quebecois de Recherche sur la Soci茅t茅 et la Culture, Art History and Communication Studies (McGill) and the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de Mexico (UNAM, MX). Vargas Cervantes is a board member of Queer and Trans Histories, Manchester University Press and the Communication and Race Journal, National Communication Association.

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Publications

Books

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2019).聽The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico鈥檚 First Female Serial Killer.聽NYU Press.
• Mart铆nez Zalce, G., Vargas Cervantes, S., & Straw, W. (Eds.). (2011)聽Aprehendiendo al delincuente: sociedad y medios en Norteam茅rica.聽Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico-CISAN.

Articles (SELECTED)

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淟a mirada del asesino serial.鈥澛�Cuicuilco. Revista mexicana de Antropolog铆a聽(90), 215-246.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). Questions on communication and Race in Mexico.聽Communication and Race, 1鈥�11.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淲hiteness, blanquedad, y blancura: pigmentocracia y la percepci贸n en M茅xico鈥澛�Revista Mexicana de Sociologia.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). 鈥淧igmentocracy and the performance of whiteness in contemporary photography: Yvonne Venegas鈥檚 San Pedro Garza and Dana Lixenberg鈥檚 United States.鈥澛�Feminist Media Studies.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2014). 鈥淎larma! Mujercitos performing gender in 1970s Mexico.鈥澛�Transgender Studies Quarterly Duke, 1(4), 552-558.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2010). 鈥淧erforming Mexicanidad: Criminality and Lucha Libre.鈥澛�Crime, Media and Culture, 6(2), 185- 203.

Chapters in Edited Books

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2014). Saliendo del cl贸set: 驴gay, maric贸n o queer? In A. Brito & R. Parrini (Eds.),听La Memoria y el deseo. Estudios gay y queer en M茅xico. PUEG. Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2011). El que r铆e al ultimo, r铆e mejor: Mujercitos en la nota roja en M茅xico durante los a帽os 70. In G. Mart铆nez Zalce, S. Vargas Cervantes, W. Straw (Eds.),听Aprehendiendo al delincuente: sociedad y medios en Norteam茅rica. Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico & Media@McGill.

Other Publications

Books

• Vargas Cervantes, Susana.聽Bad Bunny. Mirando la鈥� estrella鈥� sin telescopio. Gato Negro Publicaciones, 2023.
• Vargas Cervantes, Susana.聽Mujercitos. Editorial RM, 2014.

Selected Articles (SELECTED)

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淓l Bautizo de la Chilaquil.鈥� Revista de la Universidad.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淗ow Is a Criminal Constructed in the Public Eye?鈥� Voices of Mexico. No. 121.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淛uana Bel茅n: de 鈥榲iril鈥� a 鈥榲il鈥� y el ejemplo que necesitamos en los libros de historia.鈥� La Escuela Art.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). Joan E. Biren.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). 鈥淢asculinidades鈥� Femsa, Mexico.

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淟a Guerra en Gaza y las banderas arco铆ris. Occidente como falso para铆so queer.鈥澛�El Pa铆s.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2023). 鈥淏ad Bunny y El Imperio del placer.鈥澛�El Pa铆s.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2019). 鈥淒铆a de las madres: Una invenci贸n capitalista.鈥澛�笔补苍贸辫迟颈肠辞,听Revista de la Universidad de M茅xico.

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2017). Queer as utopia. Notes from the future: a crossbreed laborer’s diary.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2017). 鈥淓verything is compromised.鈥� Millennial Feminisms.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2017). 鈥淐omfy on steroids.鈥� Anna Uddenberg. i-D Magazine.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2016). 鈥淒efendamos 驴el matrimonio?鈥� Horizontal.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2016). 鈥淧igmentocracy in Contemporary Art.鈥澛�Terremoto: Contemporary Art in the Americas, 6.

Catalogue and Artist’s Book Essays (SELECTED)

• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2025). 鈥淛ourney to the Center of the Truth鈥� Photographers Gallery, London, May 2025.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2025). 鈥淐an we love those we don鈥檛 know?鈥� CARA, New York, May 2025
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2025). 鈥淐uerpo Mercantilizado鈥� Luna Cornea, no. 39. October, 2024.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). 鈥淐ascabela鈥�. Pedro y Juana. Museo Universitario del Chopo.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). 鈥淒e la ambig眉edad de silencios鈥� Alexander Ap贸stol, Museo universitario de arte Contempor谩neo/CAM2.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). 鈥淭he Feminist Drive of Languages鈥� Mercedes Azpillicueta, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
• Vargas Cervantes, S.(2022) 鈥淟as masculinidades del falso camale贸n: Erauso entre Cortezii y la Malitzin en la Nueva Espa帽a.鈥� Cabello/Carceller. Una voz para Erauso, Centro Azkuna, Bilbao, Espa帽a.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). 鈥淭he feminist drive of languages.鈥� Mercedes Azpillicueta, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2019). 鈥淐rocheted entanglements.鈥� ektor garc铆a. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
• Vargas Cervantes, S. (2016). 鈥淩evolt, they say!鈥� Andrea Geyer: Travels on Slender Thread. The New Foundation Seattle.

Scholarly Work in Progress

• Alarma: Fotograf铆a de violencia y afectos.
• Queer/Cuir from Latin America.聽Routledge. [Under contract]