Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Research Interests

Transnational feminism, migration, Latin American/Latino studies, Chicana/o studies, technology and the body, sexuality

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. American Studies (Minor in Advanced Feminist Studies), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Selected Publications

• "Flexible Technologies of Subjectivity and Mobility across the Americas," Special Issue of American Quarterly: Rewiring the 'Nation': The Place of Technology in American Studies, Fall 2006.


• "Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 2006 (vol. 30, no.2).


• “Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women’s Turn from the National to the Foreign,” In Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (Feb 2004): 33-48.


• "Mixed Race and Third Wave Feminism," Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations, May 2007, University of Minnesota Press, eds. Jennifer Pierce, Hoku Aikau, Karla Erickson.

Courses Taught