Genaro M. Padilla, Associate Professor

Office: 422 Wheeler

Phone: 510-622-3193

Email: gpadilla@berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

20th-Century American Literature. Literary and Cultural History of the American Southwest. California multicultural literatures. American autobiography.

Current Research

Professor Padilla is completing a study of a 17th century Spanish colonial epic titled "La Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610".

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez, editor and Introduction, 1987. 

My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography, 1993

Recoverying the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, ed. (with Ramon Gutierrez), 1993

Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? (contributing editor with Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Maria Herrera-Sobek), 1999.

Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies and Discourse, ed. (with Francisco Lomeli and Vicotor Sorrell)  2002

 

Office Hours

TTh 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm