American critic and writer
Alicia Gaspar De Alba |
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Alicia_Gaspar_de_Alba_2023_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg/220px-Alicia_Gaspar_de_Alba_2023_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg) Gaspar de Alba at the 2023 Texas Book Festival |
Born | (1958-07-29) July 29, 1958 (age 66)
El Paso, Texas |
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Nationality | American |
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Occupation | Scholar |
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Known for | Chicano/a Studies |
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Notable work | Desert Blood, Calligraphy of the Witch, Sor Juana's Second Dream |
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Spouse | Alma Lopez (married 2008-present) |
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Website | aliciagaspardealba.net |
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Alicia Gaspar de Alba is an American scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet whose works include historical novels and scholarly studies on Chicana/o art, culture and sexuality.[1]