Professional Statement
I received a B.A. in English from Humboldt State University in 1992, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Utah in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 2000. I have been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Berkeley’s Department of English since 2000.
Specialties
Books
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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification The field of Mexican American fiction has exploded since the 1990s, yet there has been relatively little critical assessment of this burgeoning area in American literature. Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form is a provocative and timely study of literary form that focuses on the fiction of four writers whose work spans a century: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Oscar Zeta Acos.... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class and Reification (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
“Reception and Authenticity: Danny Santiago’s Famous All Over Town” in New Directions in American Reception Study, eds. Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 179-194.
“The River Bottom Ranch” (fiction) in The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace, eds. Peter Scheckner and Mary Boyes (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008).
“Postmodernism, Historical Materialism, and Chicana/o Cultural Studies,” Science and Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis 68:2 (Summer 2004): 161-186.
“A Marxist Critique of Borderlands Postmodernism: Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Chicano Cultural Criticism” in Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth Century Literature of the United States, eds. Bill Mullen and Jim Smethurst (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003): 279-97.
“Jameson’s ‘Arrested Dialectic’: From Structuralism to Postmodernism,” Cultural Logic: Marxist Theory and Practice 2:2 (Spring 1999): http://eserver.org/clogic/.
Current Research
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2013
| 137T/1 | Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Gender and Class |
American Literature Chicana/o and/or Latina/o |
Fall, 2012
| 135AC/1 | Literature of American Cultures: Repression and Resistance |
American Cultures American Literature African American Literature Chicana/o and/or Latina/o Novel |
Spring, 2012
| 250/1 | Research Seminar: Marxist Literary Theory |
Literary Theory Research Seminars Graduate Courses |
Summer, 2012
| N135/1 | Literature of American Cultures: Repression and Resistance |
American Cultures |
Fall, 2011
| 137B/1 | Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910: Chicana and Chicano Novels |
Graduate Courses |
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| 250/1 | Research Seminar: Marxist Literary Theory |
Graduate Courses |
Spring, 2011
| 137T/1 | Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Chicana and Chicano Films |
Graduate Courses |