Maria Amelia Viteri-Burbano
maviterib@yahoo.com
Before coming to AU to work on the PhD in Social Anthropology, I did my M.A. in Social Studies with a Concentration on Gender Studies at FLACSO, Ecuador and a B.A. in Linguistics at Catholic University, Quito-Ecuador.
I am interested in finding new ways to create and practice theory as a way to unmask the ways in which sexuality, race, ethnicity and gender have been constructed to perpetuate regimes of racism, sexism, homophobia and ethnocentrism.
My dissertation examines how meanings around queer and Latino are evoked,
acted, recycled and constantly re-signified. As such, it looks at how ‘race’
and ‘sexuality’ are translated in the Latino LGBT Diaspora in
the District of Columbia, by critically engaging the intersections of queer
subjectivity with forms of racial subjectivity. This constitutes as well an
attempt to bridge gaps between academy/field, North/South.
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