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She is internationally recognized for her artistic work at the intersections of alternative criminology, visual studies, and queer studies\u2014in 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 <em>Photographers Gallery, Luna Cornea<\/em>, <em>Frieze, I-D, Vice, El Pa\u00eds, CBS Inside Edition, Radio Canada, BBC, Musee Magazine.<\/em> She has been invited to present her work at the New Museum (NYC), Museo Universitario de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo (MX), Museo Jumex (MX), Beursschouwburg (BE), amongst others. She is the author of the book <em>The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico\u2019s First Female Serial Killer<\/em> (NYU Press, 2019) made into a Netflix Documentary, <em>Mujercitos<\/em> (Editorial RM, 2015) and <em>Service Top:<\/em> <em>Bad Bunny, mirando la\u2019 estrella\u2019 sin telescopio<\/em> (Gato Negro, 2023). She is currently working on two major projects: a manuscript on <em>Alarma! Photography of violence<\/em> and affects and her first documentary feature film: <em>El Bautizo de la Chilaquil<\/em>, the untold story of female (homo)sexuality in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00e9t\u00e9 et la Culture, Art History and Communication Studies (McGill) and the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de Mexico (UNAM, MX). Vargas Cervantes is a board member of <em>Queer and Trans Histories<\/em>, Manchester University Press and the <em>Communication and Race Journal<\/em>, National Communication Association.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit my website: <a href=\"https:\/\/susanisima.com\">https:\/\/susanisima.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2019).\u00a0<strong><em>The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico\u2019s First Female Serial Killer.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0NYU Press.<\/li>\n<li>Mart\u00ednez Zalce, G., Vargas Cervantes, S., & Straw, W. (Eds.). (2011)\u00a0<strong><em>Aprehendiendo al delincuente: sociedad y medios en Norteam\u00e9rica.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico-CISAN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Articles (SELECTED)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). \u201cLa mirada del asesino serial.\u201d\u00a0<em>Cuicuilco. Revista mexicana de Antropolog\u00eda<\/em>\u00a0(90), 215-246.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). Questions on communication and Race in Mexico.\u00a0<em>Communication and Race, 1<\/em>\u201311.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). \u201cWhiteness, blanquedad, y blancura: pigmentocracia y la percepci\u00f3n en M\u00e9xico\u201d\u00a0<em>Revista Mexicana de Sociologia<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). \u201cPigmentocracy and the performance of whiteness in contemporary photography: Yvonne Venegas\u2019s San Pedro Garza and Dana Lixenberg\u2019s United States.\u201d\u00a0<em>Feminist Media Studies<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2014). \u201cAlarma! Mujercitos performing gender in 1970s Mexico.\u201d\u00a0<em>Transgender Studies Quarterly Duke, 1<\/em>(4), 552-558.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2010). \u201cPerforming Mexicanidad: Criminality and Lucha Libre.\u201d\u00a0<em>Crime, Media and Culture, 6<\/em>(2), 185- 203.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chapters in Edited Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2014). Saliendo del cl\u00f3set: \u00bfgay, maric\u00f3n o queer? In A. Brito & R. Parrini (Eds.),\u00a0<strong><em>La Memoria y el deseo. Estudios gay y queer en M\u00e9xico<\/em><\/strong>. PUEG. Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2011). El que r\u00ede al ultimo, r\u00ede mejor: Mujercitos en la nota roja en M\u00e9xico durante los a\u00f1os 70. In G. Mart\u00ednez Zalce, S. Vargas Cervantes, W. Straw (Eds.),\u00a0<strong><em>Aprehendiendo al delincuente: sociedad y medios en Norteam\u00e9rica<\/em><\/strong>. Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico & Media@McGill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Publications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, Susana.\u00a0<strong><em>Bad Bunny. Mirando la\u2019 estrella\u2019 sin telescopio<\/em>.<\/strong> Gato Negro Publicaciones, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, Susana.\u00a0<strong><em>Mujercitos<\/em>.<\/strong> Editorial RM, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected Articles (SELECTED)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). \u201cEl Bautizo de la Chilaquil.\u201d <em>Revista de la Universidad. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). \u201cHow Is a Criminal Constructed in the Public Eye?\u201d <em>Voices of Mexico<\/em>. No. 121.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). \u201cJuana Bel\u00e9n: de \u2018viril\u2019 a \u2018vil\u2019 y el ejemplo que necesitamos en los libros de historia.\u201d <em>La Escuela Art<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). Joan E. Biren.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2022). \u201cMasculinidades\u201d <em>Femsa<\/em>, Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2024). \u201cLa Guerra en Gaza y las banderas arco\u00edris. Occidente como falso para\u00edso queer.\u201d\u00a0<em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2023). \u201cBad Bunny y El Imperio del placer.\u201d\u00a0<em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2019). \u201cD\u00eda de las madres: Una invenci\u00f3n capitalista.\u201d\u00a0<em>Pan\u00f3ptico<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Revista de la Universidad de M\u00e9xico<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2017). Queer as utopia. <em>Notes from the future: a crossbreed laborer’s diary<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2017). \u201cEverything is compromised.\u201d <em>Millennial Feminisms<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. (2017). \u201cComfy on steroids.\u201d Anna Uddenberg. <em>i-D Magazine<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Vargas Cervantes, S. 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