Cynthia Delgado

Faculty Bio

Cynthia Citlallin Delgado holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. She writes across the fields of critical theory, queer and trans studies, feminist theory, critical geographies and Latin/x American Studies. Her book project, Staging the Interstice: The Space of Transfeminist Performance, is an interdisciplinary study that proposes a queer theory of space by mapping the work of contemporary transfeminist artists and activists in Mexico City through performance. Cy’s work has appeared in TSQ, Women & Performance, Hysteria Revista! and Gender, Place & Culture.

Awards and Honors

• New York University, 2022, Monroe Lippman Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, 2021, Dean's Dissertation Fellow

PhD, New York University, 2022
Performance Studies

MS, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2015
Gender Studies

BA, Mount Holyoke College, 2009
Studio Art / Economics

Research Interest

Areas: performance studies, art and visual cultures, critical theory, queer and trans studies,gender and sexuality, aesthetics and politics, critical race and ethnicity, urban studies, Latin/x American studies

Past Courses

WS 166: Gender, Race and Class
WS 169: Introduction to Queer Studies
WS 297: Topic: Queer/Trans Performance
WS 369: Queer Theory
WS 399: Research Methods

Publications

Border Encounters, Performing Thresholds: an introduction
Delgado, C. C. (2023). Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0740770X.2023.2206185

‘Donde Rosh’: the interstitial geographies of Trans- Performance
Delgado, C. C. (2022). Gender, Place & Culture. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2134315

Transtocar: Three Fragments
Delgado, C. C. (2022). TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly. Vol 9 (Issue 1) , pages 119-125. https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-abstract/9/1/119/294565/Transtocar-Three-Fragments?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Una Alumna Más: La Trans*pedagogía de Lía Garcia (La Novia Sirena)
Delgado, C. C. (2021). Hysteria Revista!. Vol 35 https://hysteria.mx/una-alumna-mas-la-transpedagogia-de-lia-garcia/

Book Review: "The political imaginary of sexual freedom" by Leticia Sabsay
Delgado, C. C. (2018). Vol 28 (Issue 2) , pages 173-175. https://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.1080/0740770X.2018.1473987