People / Graduate Students

Graduate Students

Sofi Chavez

Research

Queer Theory; Queer of Color Critique; Latinx and Chicanx Literary and Cultural Studies; Women of Color Feminisms; 20th and 21st Century American Literature

IMG_2332 2.jpg

Bio & Research Interests

Sofi Chavez (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a 2019-2020 recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. Sofi received her BA in English from Bryn Mawr College in 2017.

Sofi’s research interests include Latinx and Chicanx cultural production, queer of color literature, and queer kinship formation. Her dissertation will examine the figure of the queer Latinx child in contemporary literature.

Sofi is also a proud Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, Virgo Rising, and will happily discuss astrology’s centrality to the queer community, both as strategies of refusal and home-making.