Alexander Sanchez Bressler

Affiliation Years
2022
2022 CCSRE Public Writing Fellow

Alex is an artist, a writer, a scholar of sad queer literature, and a law student—in that order. Since graduating from Duke University with a B.A. in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies in 2018, he has been web designing, crafting glass art for his suegra’s (mother-in-law's) business, and working as a caregiver in the Tucson desert. Law school came as a surprise and remains that way; Alex’s imperative is to analyze how systems of capitalism, racism, and gendered normativity shape American jurisprudence in the face of doctrinal limitations. In his off time, Alex crafts linoleum-cut prints and does his very best to justify an obsession with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as an exercise in contemporary film criticism. 

Alex is the recipient of the 2018 R.W. Rosati Creative Writing Award at Duke University for his short story, Reports from South Texas; his thesis, On Latinx Poetics, received Highest Honors from the Duke Gender Studies program. Alex has written extensively for Duke Arts as their 2018 Arts Administration Fellow, where he interviewed artists-in-residence and reviewed gallery exhibits. On balance, Alex prefers to combine personal narrative with literary criticism. In this way, he hopes not only to reflect on the world around him, but on his own subjectivity as well.