Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba

Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His academic work centers on critical intersections of sexuality, violence, and national identity in Latin American contexts.

His research spans Queer Latin American Studies, gender-based violence at the US-Mexico border, and criminal organization narratives in Mexico. Key contributions include analyzing homosexual discourse formation, modernity's impact on masculinity, and state-criminal dynamics through interdisciplinary lenses combining literature, film, and cultural studies.

Domínguez-Ruvalcaba has authored foundational texts such as Modernity and the nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity (2007) and Nación Criminal (2015), while editing critical volumes including Gender Violence at the US-Mexico Border (2010) and La cuestión del odio (2016) on homophobia in Mexico. His scholarship consistently addresses border violence, queer theory, and institutional terror in Mexican society.