Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon
Salvador Herrera is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature and Cultural Production in the University of Oregon's Department of English. His research and teaching traverses Literary, Performance, and Latinx Studies. Specifically, he analyzes transborder aesthetics to theorize queer life. His work is informed by Chicana feminism, world-systems theory, psychoanalysis, and aesthetic decipherment. Herrera maintains research interests in Queer Theory, Trans Studies, New Materialism, and Border Studies as these fields coalesce around questions of reproduction, nature, and the erotic. He is actively developing a theory of "queer transitivity" for his first book manuscript.
Herrera has written several public-facing articles for Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, along with a peer-reviewed article on race, cybernetics, and the role of mediation in border subject formation as part of a 2021 special issue of Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection.
