Alan Pelaez Lopez, Ph.D.

Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is a scholar-artist whose academic research integrates the fields of African and African diasporic migrations, performance studies and performance contracts, and Indigenous trans*feminist studies.

 

They are author of the poetry collections, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020) and to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020); the children's book, Abuelita’s Music / La Musica de Abuelita (Levine Querido Editions, 2027); and editor of the multi-genre volume When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona, 2023).

 

Pelaez Lopez’s visual art has been exhibited in group shows across the United States, Germany, and Slovenia; in a solo exhibition at Harvard University’s Art Wing in Winter 2023; and as staged performances in museums and galleries across the country. Alan Pelaez Lopez is recipient of a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2025 San Francisco Foundation Literary Award in Poetry, a 2025-2026 Scholar Research Fellowship from Brandeis University, a 2026 Writing Freedom Fellowship from Haymarket Books, and a 2026-2027 Catalyst for Change Fellowship in Visual Art from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.