Rosa-Linda Fregoso is the Professor and former Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies: Language, Society and Culture from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied under American media critic and scholar, Herbert Schiller, and literary scholar, Rosaura Sánchez. Fregoso was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before pursuing a career in academia, she was a television and radio journalist. From 1977-79, she produced and hosted Telecorpus, a daily talk show that aired on KORO-TV in Corpus Christi. She later moved to Austin, Texas, and from 1979–82, she produced and hosted a weekly radio program, The Mexican American Experience, for the Longhorn Radio Network and KUT-FM. The Mexican-American Experience was the first nationally syndicated radio program dealing with Mexican-American issues to air on public and commercial radio programs. It was the predecessor to KUT-FM's Latino USA, a radio program that Fregoso contributed to as a film critic in its early years. Fregoso has won a number of honors and awards, including a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ; the Rockefeller Foundation Resident Scholar award ; and the MLA Book Prize for . Fregoso currently lives in Oakland, California.
Published works
Books
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, co-edited with Cynthia Bejarano, Duke University Press.
"Lupe Vélez: Queen of the Bs," From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture, edited by Myra Mendible, Austin: University of Texas Press.
"Fantasy Heritage: Tracking Latina Bloodlines," Latino Studies Companion, edited by Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo, Blackwell Press.
"Toward a Planetary Civil Society", Women in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Structural Violence and Agency in Everyday Life, edited by Denise Segura and Patricia Zavella, Duke University Press.
"Reproduction and Miscegenation on the Borderlands: Mapping the Maternal Body of Tejanas", Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Aída Hurtado, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma Klahn and Pat Zavella, Duke University Press.
"," Reading U.S. Latina Writers, edited by Alvina Quintana, Palgrave MacMillan.
"California Filming: Re-imagining the Nation," Parallels and Intersections: A Remarkable History of Women Artists in California 1950-2000, edited by Diana Fuller, University of California Press.
"Devils and Ghosts, Mothers and Immigrants: A Critical Retrospective of the Works of Lourdes Portillo", Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films, edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 81–101.
"Sacando los Trapos al Sol in Lourdes Portillo's 'The Devil Never Sleeps'", Redirecting the Gaze: Third World Women Filmmakers, edited by Diana Robin and Ira Jaffe, SUNY Press.
Selected articles
"Witnessing and the Poetics of Corporality", Kalfou, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 21–31.
"Maquilapolis: An Interview with Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre", Camera Obscura, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 173–81.
"Las queremos vivas!" La política y la cultura de los derechos humanos, Debate Feminista, Vol. 39, pp. 209–243, Mexico City.
"The Disasters of Border Crossing", Truthdig.
"We Want Them Alive!: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights", Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 22, pp. 367–79.
"’We Want Them Alive!’: The Politics and Culture of Human Rights," Social Identities, Vol. 12, No. 2.
"The Complexities of 'Feminicide' on the Border", Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, Cambridge, South End Press, pp. 130–4.
