Escribe, enseña y cura. Es una académica interdisciplinaria, reconocida internacionalmente por su trabajo artístico y académico en las intersecciones de la criminología alternativa, los estudios visuales y los estudios queer, tanto en América del Norte como en América Latina. Su trabajo ha aparecido en Frieze,I-D, Vice, El País, CBS Inside Edition, entre otros.
Es autora de los libros: The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer (NYU Press, 2019) y Mujercitos (Editorial RM, 2015). Ha co-curado exposiciones en Tate Britain, Museo Jumex, Ford Foundation Gallery. Después de una estancia Fulbright en la Universidad de Columbia, se unió a la Universidad de Carleton como profesora en Estudios de Comunicación y Medios.
Vargas Cervantes teaches, writes, and curates. She is internationally recognized for her artistic work at the intersections of alternative criminology, visual studies, and queer studies—in both Anglo North America and Latin America. She has co-curated exhibitions at Tate Britain, Museo Jumex, and Ford Foundation Gallery. After a Fulbright stay at Columbia University, she joined Carleton University as a professor in Communication and Media Studies. Her work has been featured in Frieze, I-D, Vice, El País, CBS Inside Edition, among others. She is the author of the book The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico’s First Female Serial Killer (NYU Press, 2019) made into a Netflix Documentary, Mujercitos (Editorial RM, 2015) and Bad Bunny (Gato Negro 2023). She is currently working on her first documentary feature film: El Bautizo de la Chilaquil, the untold story of female (homo)sexuality in Mexico.
