In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnational queer body as a physical and symbolic entity intrinsically connected with space.
Luis Navarro-Ayala is Assistant Professor of French and Spanish at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin, USA. His research explores questions of gender, queerness, body image in transcultural media and technology, race, and ethnicity in Francophone and Latin American contexts.
1. The Garçonnière in Buenos Aires: The Queer Body as a Boundary Figure in “Frenchness”: The Transnational Queer in Alfonso Hernández-Catá’s El ángel de Sodoma.- 2. Othering the Contemporáneos: Frenchness, Mexicanness and Queerness.- 3. Moroccan Boys: Points of Resistance in Homosexual Tourism.- 4. Rachid O.’s Homosexual Awakening: The Allegorical Representation of the Blond-haired, Blue-eyed French Boy.- 5. Homoerotic Crossings: Corporeal Dis/Positions in Immigrations to Spain and France.- 6. The Queer Beur Look: Disidentification and Subversion in France.- 7. Queering the Football Field: Intersectionality and Transnationalism in the Maghreb.