Biography

Dr. T. Jackie Cuevas has taught at universities, community colleges, high schools, community centers, writing workshops, and detention centers. Prior to UT, Cuevas taught at Syracuse University and UTSA. At both universities, Cuevas was awarded McNair Mentor of the Year. At UTSA, Cuevas held a Lutcher Brown Endowed Professorship, directed the Women's Studies Institute, and was Principal Investigator for Democratizing Racial Justice (2021), funded by a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. Cuevas is the author of Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique (Rutgers University Press, 2018) and co-editor, with Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Larissa Mercado-López, of El Mundo Zurdo 4: Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (Aunt Lute Books, 2015). Cuevas’s poetry has been published in the chapbook Otherhood, USA (Tanto Tinto Press, 2000) and in publications such as Sinister Wisdom, Stone Canoe, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Label Me Latina/o. Cuevas is also the co-founder of Evelyn Street Press, former producer of Sharon Bridgforth's Finding Voice radio show, and former host of the Latinaxe podcast. Cuevas is a 2018 recipient of the UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. Cuevas served as Interim Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies for 2023-2024 and has previous administrative experience as a department chair, associate chair, graduate advisor, academic program director, and research center director. From 2017 to 2022, Cuevas served on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Chicana/o/x Literature Forum. Cuevas belongs to the Macondo Writers Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros.