Elvira Carrizal-Dukes
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Dr. Carrizal-Dukes is from El Paso, Texas, where she grew up in the colonia Chaparral, New Mexico. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Rhetoric and Composition from The University of Texas at El Paso, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Journalism and Chicano Studies and a minor in Theatre Arts.
She teaches Chicanx Cinema and Theatre, American Cinema of the US-Mexico Border, The Roots of Latinx Hip Hop, and Chicanx/Latinx Music in the U.S. She has also taught Contemporary Hispanic Theatre and Drama, Technical Communication, Cinematic Genres, Screenwriting, Cinematic Directors, Film Theory and Criticism, and Feature Film Production. Previously, she was a Tenured Assistant Professor at El Paso Community College where she taught film, video, and media courses.
Dr. Carrizal-Dukes received a Knight Fellowship for the PhDigital Bootcamp at the Media Innovation Lab Texas State University, a Cindy and Dickie Selfe Fellowship for The Digital Media and Composition Institute at The Ohio State University, and a National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing Writer-in-Residence Fellowship and was a research fellow for the UTEP Multilingual User-Experience Research Center. Her scholarship centers the lives of women and racially and economically disadvantaged communities.
She is a filmmaker and the writer, director, and producer of Mariposa (2006) and The Weeping Pimp (2015). Dr. Carrizal-Dukes is the author of the play Father's Shadow / Sombra del Padre (Dramatic Publishing, 2001) winner of the Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival Si TV Playwriting Award and Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Fellowship. Other produced plays written by Dr. Carrizal-Dukes include Escaping Juarez, P.I.G. (Pimps, Illegals, Gangsters), Silencio No Mas, and Border Ballad Twinkle Toe Patrol: A Chicanx Musical.
Dr. Carrizal-Dukes is the author of the graphic novel A.W.O.L. (DUKEScomics, 2017). A.W.O.L. was exhibited at Tokyo Comic Con in 2018 and is available in English, Japanese, and soon Spanish.
She teaches Chicanx Cinema and Theatre, American Cinema of the US-Mexico Border, The Roots of Latinx Hip Hop, and Chicanx/Latinx Music in the U.S. She has also taught Contemporary Hispanic Theatre and Drama, Technical Communication, Cinematic Genres, Screenwriting, Cinematic Directors, Film Theory and Criticism, and Feature Film Production. Previously, she was a Tenured Assistant Professor at El Paso Community College where she taught film, video, and media courses.
Dr. Carrizal-Dukes received a Knight Fellowship for the PhDigital Bootcamp at the Media Innovation Lab Texas State University, a Cindy and Dickie Selfe Fellowship for The Digital Media and Composition Institute at The Ohio State University, and a National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing Writer-in-Residence Fellowship and was a research fellow for the UTEP Multilingual User-Experience Research Center. Her scholarship centers the lives of women and racially and economically disadvantaged communities.
She is a filmmaker and the writer, director, and producer of Mariposa (2006) and The Weeping Pimp (2015). Dr. Carrizal-Dukes is the author of the play Father's Shadow / Sombra del Padre (Dramatic Publishing, 2001) winner of the Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival Si TV Playwriting Award and Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Fellowship. Other produced plays written by Dr. Carrizal-Dukes include Escaping Juarez, P.I.G. (Pimps, Illegals, Gangsters), Silencio No Mas, and Border Ballad Twinkle Toe Patrol: A Chicanx Musical.
Dr. Carrizal-Dukes is the author of the graphic novel A.W.O.L. (DUKEScomics, 2017). A.W.O.L. was exhibited at Tokyo Comic Con in 2018 and is available in English, Japanese, and soon Spanish.