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Dante received his associate’s degree in Sociology and Criminology from Central New Mexico Community College in 2018 and his bachelor’s in Sociology and Chicanx Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2022. He is a nontraditional, first-generation transfer student working on his Master’s in Chicanx Studies. His Sociology foci included deviancy, issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and social networks. His Chicanx Studies foci were Chicana History and Querencia. He began to focus on autoethnographic work to express how queerness, transness, and his self-proclaimed bastardization and familial estrangement led to a fracturing of Querencia. His essay, “Searching for Querencia,” was published in Green Fire Times: News & Views from the Sustainable Southwest, Vol. 13, No. 3. His focus in his master’s has been on what has connected him to his Querencia, despite a fractured past with place. Growing up, he chased cryptids and aliens in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, read and watched science fiction, and witnessed and lived through the Dystopia that is the United States of America. Working to make meaning and sense of how queerness and non-normativity are part of the monster and alien Other, he reads and writes creative nonfiction and historical fiction like a mirror of the monsterization and alienation of non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual, and non-Christian people.

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Research Topics 

Critical Mystery Studies | Literary Studies | Querencia | Monster Studies | Narrative Structure