Josue Ku Gallegos Sr.

Josue Ku Gallegos is a graduate teaching assistant in the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Department. He holds a master’s degree in Hispanic Studies from Western Michigan University and another master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He also received a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Literature from the Autonomous University of Yucatán in México.  He has combined his professional career with gender and queer activism in México, collaborating in the community through different initiatives such as the Seminario de estudios CUIR at UNAM and the group of trans women sex workers in México City. Since 2016, He has been participating in the voguing culture in Mexico City and São Paulo, Brazil. In the academic field, Josue has researched on an HIV/AIDS aesthetic in the Queer Puerto Rican Literature and Arts. He worked with a group of Mexican scholars dedicated to the Caribbean Studies on the project “Anti-colonialism in the Caribbean” in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNAM. At the same time, He was a member of the Committee for Translinguistic Exchange and Translation in the Caribbean Studies Association (https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/csa-committees/comite-de-traduction-et-echange-multilingue/). Josue has been working for five years as a lead Spanish Instructor at the CIEE Yucatán Center. He has received professional development in second language acquisition, specifically in Immersion contexts. He loves teaching Mexican Spanish Language and Culture.

Articles and Essays

• Ku Gallegos, Josué. 2015. Capítulo VI. Vir(tu)alidad e hipertexto: la dinámica bloguera del VIH/SIDA en puerto rico en Interrogando los límites del texto: Ensayos de crítica literaria de Margaret Shrimpton y Oscar Ortega. Mérida, Yucatán: Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. https://www.academia.edu/19327885/INTERROGANDO_LOS_LIMITES_DEL_TEXTO._ENSAYOS_DE_CRITICA_LITERARIA_introducci%C3%B3n_e_indice_2015

Conference Presentations

• Universidad José Martí de Latinoamérica. Book presentation: Antología de narrativa LGBTQ+ escrita en español en Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico by Daniel Torres. March 2024, Mérida, México.
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• 43rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION June 2018, Havana, Cuba.
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• 16TH TROPOS CONFERENCE, Michigan State University OCTOBER 2016, East Lansing, Michigan.
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• 2do PROGRAMA ACADÉMICO DEL FESTIVAL DE LA PALABRA o del 20 al 22 de October 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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• 1er ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE PENSAMIENTO CRÍTICO EN EL CARIBE INSULAR. CIALC UNAM. August 2016, Mexico City.
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• 41st ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION. June 2016, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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• 2o COLOQIO LETRAS DIVERSAS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México March 2016, Mexico City.
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• VI COLOQUIO DEL OTRO LA ́O: PERSPECTIVAS QUEER. March 2016, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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• 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION. May 2014, Mérida, Yucatán.
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