Title/s: Senior lecturer; Associate Faculty, WSGS and Honors program
Specialty Area: XX/XXI Latin American Literatures, Mexican Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies & Queer Theory, Ibero-American Transatlantic & Postcolonialism Studies, Latin@ Studies, Border Studies, Contemporary Iberian, Latin@ and Latin Americ
Office #: Crown Center 117, Lewis Towers 920
Phone: 773.508.2863
Email: hgarci1@luc.edu
Dr. Héctor García Chávez holds a joint appointment in Women's Studies/Gender Studies Program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. He served as the Director of Loyola's interdisciplinary Latin American and US Latinx Studies Program. He is a Loyola Sujack Master Teacher and recipient of the prestigious Ignatius Loyola Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago where he studied Iberian and Latin American Literatures, Literary Theory, and Cultural Studies. He teaches courses on Spanish language and Iberian-Latin American cultures, Latin American literatures and films, Latin American-US Latinx Studies, and Queer Theory for the Spanish B.A. Program, Loyola’s Interdisciplinary Honours Program, and Women’s Studies/Gender Studies Program (B.A. and Graduate Programs). His research interests and publications are in the areas of Masculinity studies and Queer Theory in Mexican Literature and XX/XXI Latin American Literatures and Film, Transnational and Border Studies, and US Latinx and Gender Studies. He has also been Director of Summer study-abroad programming on five occasions and most recently took both undergraduate and graduate students to study identity, migration, and gender in Barcelona.
He is a Board Member of two Chicago-based immigration advocacy organizations: Taller de José an NGO located in La Villita a majority Mexican-US American neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, and MAKE Literary Productions/Lit&Luz Festivals which create unique series of readings, discussions, and performances featuring renowned authors in Chicagolandia and Ciudad de México. In the recent past has invited celebrated Mexican writers Jorge Volpi, Margo Glantz, Ignacio Solares, Eloy Urroz and Georgina García Gutiérrez to Loyola in collaboration with the Chicago Mexican Consulate and the UNAM-Chicago Campus where he is a Visiting Scholar. He is currently part of an international seminar housed at El Instituto Mora in Ciudad de México and is writing a book with seminar colleagues on scandals in the public sphere.