Frances Aparicio
Frances Rivera Aparicio is the author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures. She is also the co-author of Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I and Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad . She is the editor of several books including Latino Voices. She has been a professor at Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, where she directed the Latina/Latino Studies Program.
She moved to the United States to earn her bachelor's at Indiana [University Bloomington]. She earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University. She is an editorial advisory board member of Chasqui, a Latin [American literature|Latin American and Latinx literature], philosophy, and arts journal.