Education

1981 Ph.D., Yale University
Major: Latin American Literature
Minor: Comparative Literature

1978 The School of Criticsm and Theory, University of Caliornia, Irvine

1975 M.A., University of California, Irvine
Major: Spanish

1972 B.A., California State University, Los Angeles
Major: Spanish

1968 B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Major: Business Administration

Publications & Articles

• Conciencia y lenguaje en el "Quijote" y "El obsceno pájaro de la noche." (Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 1987).
• Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Co-edited with an introduction by Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar (Duke University Press, 1991).
• "To Read Chicano Narrative: Commentary and Metacommentary." (Mester, 1983).
• "On the Uses of Chronicle, Biography and Sketch in Rolando Hinojosa's Generaciones y semblanzas." (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985).
• "Ideology and Sexuality, Male and Female in El obsceno pájaro de la noche." (Ideologies & Literature, 1985.).
• "Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima: A Chicano Romance of the Southwest." Critica: A Journal of Critical Essays (1986).
• "At the Crossroads of History, on the Borders of Change: Chicano Literary Studies Past, Present, and Future." Left Politics and the Literary Profession (Columbia University Press, 1990.).
• "Bless Me, Ultima: A Chicano Romance of the Southwest." (Lalo Press, 1990).
• "Reinventing the Border." In American Mosaic: Multicultural Readings in Context. (Houghton Mifflin, 1991).
• "Criticism in the Borderlands," with Jose David Saldivar. "Introduction" for Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology. (Duke University Press, 1991.).
• "The Novel and the Cummunity of Readers: Rereading Tomás Rivera's Y no se lo tragó la tierra." For Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology. (Duke University Press, 1991).
• "A Selected and Nootated Bibliography of Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism," with Roberto Trujillo and José David Saldívar. For Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. (Duke University Press, 1991).
• "Texas Border Literature: Cultural Transformation and Historical Reflection in Américo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa and Gloria Anzaldúa." (Dispositio, 1992).
• "Literatura fronteriza chicana: El compromiso con la historia en Américo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa y Gloria Anzaldúa." (Mester, 1993).
• "Interview with Américo Paredes." Héctor Calderón and José Rósbel López-Morín. Nepantla: Views from North (2000).
• "´A New Connection, a New Set of Recognitions´: From This Bridge Called My Back to this bridge we call home." (Discourse 2003).
• "´Mexicana hasta el alma soy yo´: Ely Guerra´s Fusion of Rock, Poetry, and Fin-de-Siecle Feminism." Puentes, 2004.
• "Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders" University of Texas Press, 2005.
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Honors and Awards

• "Latin American Writers in Exile," Athwin Research Grant for Research in France and Spain
• Faculty Fellow, Scripps Humanities Institute
• A. Griswold Faculty Reserach Fund, Yale University
• American Council of Learned Societies, International Travel Grant for France and Spain
• Morse Fellowship, Yale University
• The Frederick W. Hilles Publications Fund, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
• Visiting Fellow, Stanford Humanities Fellow; 1986-87

Research Interests