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Ximena Keogh Serrano is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latinx Studies at �鶹ֱ��. Her areas of specialization lie at the intersection of Latin American and U.S. Latinx literary and cultural studies, and studies in gender and sexuality.

In her research, Dr. Keogh Serrano explores borders, migration, and sexual politics, across a range of literary texts, visual art, film, and performance in the Americas. Her writing and teaching practices are informed by feminist, queer and decolonial methodologies.

Following her own transnational background, Prof. Keogh Serrano’s academic and artistic production moves between and across languages—including Spanish, English, and espanglish. She writes poetry, critical essays, and public scholarship.

Areas of Research and Specialization

Latin American Literature
Latinx Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Critical Race Theory
Film and visual culture
Border studies
Performance studies
Visual textualities
Art & art practices
Museum studies

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Spanish and Latin American Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018
M.A., Spanish Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2012
B.A., Spanish Literature and Communication, Loyola University of Chicago, 2008

COURSES I TEACH

SPAN 211 Spanish for Heritage Speakers
HUM 260 Latinxs in U.S. Pop Culture
HUM 360 Between Borders and Belonging: An Exploration of Latinx Texts and Beings in Transit
SPAN 406 Political Dissidence in Literature, Film, and Music of the Americas
SPAN 406 Intimate Portraits: Mapping Art & Memory in Latin America
SPAN 406 Voces Rebeldes: Arte y disidencia política en nuestra América
SPAN 406 Borderlands: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American and Latinx Cultural Studies

CRITICAL ESSAYS & ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Keogh Serrano, Ximena. “Routes of Resistance and Memory in the Art of Guillermo Bert.” Guillermo Bert: The Journey. Edited by Ann M. Wolfe and Vivian Zavataro. Exhibition Catalogue. Nevada Museum of Art. (August 2023.)

Keogh Serrano, Ximena. “Por un arte andante: vías de resistencia y memoria en la obra de Guillermo Bert”. Guillermo Bert: The Journey. Edited by Ann M. Wolfe and Vivian Zavataro. Exhibition Catalogue. Nevada Museum of Art. (August 2023.)

Keogh Serrano, Ximena. “Lettered Encounters: Ana Castillo’s Mixquiahuala Letters Poetics of Spilling.” New Transnational Latinx Perspectives on Ana Castillo. Edited by Karen Roybal and Bernadine Hernández. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, pp. 33-48.

Keogh Serrano, Ximena. "Dreaming a Radical Citizenship: How Undocumented Queers in the United States Configure Sites of Belonging and Being through Art and Media Technologies." European Journal of American Studies 11.11-3 (2017).

SELECT PUBLICATIONS IN POETRY

“A Call, from the Window” Devan Shimoyama: Rituals Exhibition Catalogue, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University. (January 2025).
"Edges of Self and City", "Jazz, or the Ways of Our Time Feel Trio", and "Sea Broken" in Special Issue “Rage, Struggle, Freedom: Politics of Hope and Love.” S&F Online. Published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
“Because I Cannot Stay" Passengers Journal. (December, 2023).
“Hybridity”; “O Loveland”; “Reptile Moves”. Nonbinary. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. Feminist Press. (December 2023)
“Origin” Harbor Review. Harbor Editions Press. (August 2023)
“On Leaving” EN MEDIO: Senses of Migration Exhibition Catalogue. Lilley Museum. University of Nevada Reno. (August 2022).
“Formations.” The Sun isn’t Out Long Enough, ed. by Tatevik Sargsyan. Anamot Press. (August 2021).
“Oracle” Albunicionista Magazine. Online. (August 2020).
"Identity Ruptures," and "We answer" in “States of La Frontera” issue of pacificREVIEW. San Diego State University, (September 2018).
“Leaking Forms, A Past”; “Orchestral Longings.” Rejoinder Journal. The Stranger Within Issue. Rutgers University. (May 2018)
“Waiting to Fire.” The Journal for Latina Critical Feminism. (Spring 2018)
“Our Words at Sea.” Hematopoiesis Press. Scarification Issue. (February 2018)
“The Sting Thereafter.” Le Petit Press’s Mo(u)rning Anthology (March 2018).
"Invitación." Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 1.2 (2017): 186-186.