Domino Perez is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture (2008) examines one of the most famous figures in US/Mexican folklore. She has coedited the book Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture (2018) as well as published numerous book chapters and articles on topics ranging from borderlands masculinity and Latinx literature to young adult fiction and folklore. She has also published works of fiction and creative nonfiction. Epistemically rooted and inquiry driven, her recent book Fatherhood in the Borderlands (2022) sits at the intersection of slow research; personal narrative; and literature, film, cultural, ethnic, and gender studies. The book emphasizes not only the epistemic value of creative inquiry but also the role such an approach can play in academic research practices.
2025 Festival Session