Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a full professor of Modern Languages and Cultures, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at theSeattle University.^[1][2] She is the current Theiline Pigott-McCone Chair (2018-2020) at Seattle University. She was a commissioner for theWashington State Arts Commission^[3] from 2014 to 2017.

In a 2013 interview, Gutiérrez y Muhs mentioned that she grew up inMexico and was named after theChilean poetGabriela Mistral.^[4] Gutiérrez y Muhs received herPh.D fromStanford University in 2000 in Spanish, Latin American Studies, and US Latinx/Chicanx.^[5] She is a well-known scholar in the fields ofChicana andLatin American literature,cultural studies, andfeminist theory. Gutiérrez y Muhs received two B.A.s from Occidental College, in Spanish and French, as well as two minors in Anthropology and Sociology and a Latin American Studies minor. She received a teaching credential from UCSC, K-12, clear, bilingual, and holds Administrative Credentials. She worked as Director of Women's Crisis Support and Shelter Services, South County Commission on Alcoholism, Youth Services and as a High School Counselor art Watsonville High School. She also taught French at WHS. Dr. Gutiérrez y Muhs speaks five languages fluently: Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese. She has taught and presented internationally in Spanish, English and French. She received a graduate studies scholarship from Rotary International to study theatre in Spain, 1984–1985, and also worked with Teatro Campesino's winter productions in the 1980s.

After beingtenured in March 2006, Gutiérrez y Muhs was named the 2007-2009 Wismer Professor for Gender and Diversity Studies at Seattle University. She was appointed as theTheiline Pigott-McCone Chair at the university for the period 2018–2020.^[6] In 2011, she represented theUnited States at the Kritya International Poetry Festival held inNagpur,India, along with two other American poets.

She gained attention for her work as First Editor of the 2012 bookPresumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia^[7] which discussed the experiences of various women of color in academia and later for her 2013 book Rebozos de Palabras: an Helena Maria Viramontes critical reader, on the contributions ofHelena Maria Viramontes.^[8] Gutiérrez y Muhs is also a renowned poet whose work has been published in numerous journals and collections in the US, France, Chile, Spain, and Chile.

• Muhs, Gabriella Gutiérrez y (2002).A most improbable life: poems. Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press.ISBN 9780972613668.
• Muhs, Gabriella Gutiérrez y (2010).Communal feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and cultural exile: theorizing the space of exile, class, and identity. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.ISBN 9780739144596.
• Muhs, Gabriella Gutiérrez y;Harris, Angela P.; Flores Niemann, Yolanda; González, Carmen G. (2012).Presumed incompetent: the intersections of race and class for women in academia. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.ISBN 9780874219227.
• Muhs, Gabriella Gutiérrez y (2013).Rebozos de palabras: an Helena María Viramontes critical reader. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.ISBN 9780816521364.^[9]
• Muhs, Gabriella Gutiérrez y (2017).Word Images New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú. University of Arizona Press.ISBN 9780816534098.^[10]

• 1959 births
• American feminist writers
• American women writers
• Chicana feminists
• Seattle University faculty
• Stanford University alumni
• Living people
• American women academics
• 21st-century American women

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