Cynthia Delgado
Biography
Faculty Bio
Cynthia Citlallin Delgado holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. She writes across the fields of critical theory, queer and trans studies, feminist theory, critical geographies and Latin/x American Studies. Her book project, Staging the Interstice: The Space of Transfeminist Performance, is an interdisciplinary study that proposes a queer theory of space by mapping the work of contemporary transfeminist artists and activists in Mexico City through performance. Cy’s work has appeared in TSQ, Women & Performance, Hysteria Revista! and Gender, Place & Culture.
Awards and Honors
- New York University, 2022, Monroe Lippman Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, 2021, Dean's Dissertation Fellow
Education
PhD, New York University, 2022
Performance Studies
MS, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015
Gender Studies
BA, Mount Holyoke College, 2009
Studio Art / Economics
Research and Creative Works
Research Interest
Areas: performance studies, art and visual cultures, critical theory, queer and trans studies,gender and sexuality, aesthetics and politics, critical race and ethnicity, urban studies, Latin/x American studies
Courses Taught
Past Courses
WS 166: Gender, Race and Class
WS 169: Introduction to Queer Studies
WS 297: Topic: Queer/Trans Performance
WS 369: Queer Theory
WS 399: Research Methods
Publications and Presentations
Publications
Border Encounters, Performing Thresholds: an introduction
Delgado, C. C. (2023). Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.
‘Donde Rosh’: the interstitial geographies of Trans- Performance
Delgado, C. C. (2022). Gender, Place & Culture.
Transtocar: Three Fragments
Delgado, C. C. (2022). TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly. Vol 9 (Issue 1) , pages 119-125.
Una Alumna Más: La Trans*pedagogÃa de LÃa Garcia (La Novia Sirena)
Delgado, C. C. (2021). Hysteria Revista!. Vol 35
Book Review: "The political imaginary of sexual freedom" by Leticia Sabsay
Delgado, C. C. (2018). Vol 28 (Issue 2) , pages 173-175.