Domino R. Perez
Associate Professor — Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Contact
- E-mail: drperez@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-232-9434
- Office: CAL 401
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
Young Adult Fiction; Mexican American and Latinx Literature and Culture; American Literature; Popular Culture; Film; Cultural Studies
Biography
Domino Renee Perez is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies, specializing in Young Adult Fiction, Mexican American and Latinx Literature, American Literature, Film, Popular Culture, and Cultural Studies.
Her book There Was a Woman: La Llorona From Folklore to Popular Culture (UT Press, 2008) examines La Llorona, the weeping woman, one of the most famous figures in US/Mexican folklore. She co-edited a book on Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2018), as well as published numerous book chapters and articles on topics ranging from film and Indigeneity in Mexican American studies to young adult fiction and folklore.
She is the recipient of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, a University of Texas system-wide honor in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Selected Publications:
There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture. Austin: U of Texas P, 2008. (Book)
Co-Editor, Race & Cultural Practice in Popular Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2018. (Book)
Co-Editor, El Mundo Zurdo 5: Selected Works from the 2015 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2016. (Book)
“Of Myth and Men: Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of Snow.” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 3.2 (2019): 77-93. (Article)
“Not Another Dead Indian: Young Adult Fiction, Survivance, and Sherman Alexie’s Flight.” The Lion and the Unicorn. 41.3 (2018): 285-306. (Article)
“The Politics of Taking: La Llorona in the Cultural Mainstream.” The Journal of Popular Culture 45.1 (2012): 153-172. (Article)
“Migrant Imaginaries and the Politics of Form.” ALH 23.2 (2011): 435-448. (Article)
“A Legacy of meXicana Style.” meXicana Fashions: Self-Adornment, Identity Constructions, and Political Self-Presentations. Eds. Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú. Austin: U of Texas P, 2020. (Chapter)
“Afuerx and Cultural Practice in Shadowshaper and Labyrinth Lost.” Outsiders in Chica@/Latin@ YA Literature. Eds. Trevor Boffone and Christina Herrera. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2020. (Chapter)
Metas and Magnificents in the Professional Western.” Race and Gender in the Weird Western. Eds. Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, Sara. L. Spurgeon. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2020. (Chapter)
“New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa,” Handbook of Chicana/o Studies. Eds. Francisco Lomeli, Denise Segura, and Fátima Suarez. New York: Routledge, 2018. [Chapter Reprint.]
“Anticipating a New Life.” Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature & Art. Eds. Norma Cantú and Inés Hernandez-Avila. Austin: U of Texas P, 2015. 157-163. (Chapter/Creative Non-fiction)
“The Making and Remaking of the Mestiza: New Tribalism and Indigenous Identity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa,” The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literatures. Eds. James Cox and Daniel Justice. New York: Oxford, 2014. 489-502. (Chapter)
“The Uncertainty of Ceremonias.” Chiricú Journal. 3.1 (2018): 181–193. (Short Story)