Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon, Associate Professor of Spanish at Colgate University and former Spanish graduate student in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies, has published a monographic issue on body, gender violence, and dissident sexualities in contemporary Spanish and Latin American theatre and performance in Revista de Estudios de Género y sexualidades/Journal of Gender & Sexuality Studies. Sandoval-Leon completed his doctoral studies in Hispanic Cultural Studies at MSU (2014-2019) and wrote his doctoral dissertation “Lo irrepresentable en escena: los olvidados en la dramaturgia contemporánea en el Cono Sur y España” under the supervision of Tony Grubbs, professor of early modern Spanish literature in the Romance and Classical Studies Department. Among his peers, he distinguished himself by receiving the Johannes Sachse Award for Outstanding Graduate Student (2017) and the Outstanding Contributor Award (2016, 2018), among other recognitions. In 2025, Sandoval-Leon was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Colgate University, where he excels as both a scholar of contemporary trans-Atlantic theater and performance studies and a dynamic teacher who inspires intellectual curiosity. He has also produced plays with his students at Colgate University. A sample of his performance productions can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x8WNDlXvtwJJTXtAuOc65X7FaCgLrbGJ/view
Sandoval-Leon is the author of Cuerpos resilientes y disidentes (2025), a book that examines political-sexual violence against women during Spanish and Latin American dictatorial regimes in plays written between 1990 and 2020, and the coeditor of Partera de la historia (2022), a collection of essays on violence in Latin American literature, performance, and audiovisual media. His most recent publication is “Instalar el cuerpo: género y sexualidades en el teatro y la performance de la época contemporánea”, a collection of eleven articles coedited with Melissa González-Contreras (CSU-Domínguez Hills) for issue 52.1 (May 2026) of REGS/JGSS. This special issue addresses the urgent need to denounce gender-based violence in contemporary transnational contexts. In the face of this violence, artistic practices emerge as critical spaces that challenge gender norms and bring dissident identities to light. The articles collected in this issue offer perspectives that invite us to rethink gender and sexuality through cultural and aesthetic practices.
Published by MSU Press, REGS/JGSS (formerly known as Letras femeninas) is the scholarly journal of the Association of Gender & Sexuality Studies since 1975. From 2020 to 2024, MSU Emeritum Professor Rocío Quispe Agnoli directed the journal, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the College of Arts and Letters and the Romance and Classical Studies Department.
