Professional Statement
My essays have appeared in American Literary History, Cultural Studies, Daedalus, Nepantla, Revista Casa de las Americas, The Americas Review, Modern Fiction Studies, and other journals.
I have served on the Editorial Boards of Duke University Press, the University of California Press, and Revista Chicano-Riquena, and I am currently on the Editorial Boards of the scholarly journals, American Literary History, ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal, Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise, and The Global South.
The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History, a study of the trans-American novel, appeared from Duke University Press in 1991. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, a history of the development of US-Mexican border thinking and cultural studies, appeared from the University of California Press in 1997. I also edited The Rolando Hinojosa Reader (Arte Publico Press, 1985), and co-edited Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (Duke University Press, 1991).
I am the recipient of a University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, a William Rice Kimball Fellowship (Stanford Humanities Center), an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Study in Modern Society and Values, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship for Minorities, and a fellowship to The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College. In 2007, I received the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award from UC, Berkeley, and in 2005 I received the Chicano Scholar of the Year Award from the Modern Language Association.
Specialties
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.
The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Literary History, and Cultural Critique, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, 1995, and 2002.
Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, 1994, 2003.
The Rolando Hinojosa Reader: Essays Historical and Critical, Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1985.
"Los orígenes transnacionales de la literatura chicana: el itinerario de Américo Paredes en Asia y el Pacífico," Revista Casa de las Américas 252 (julio-septiembre) 2008: 76-83.
"Making Democracy Surreal: Political Race and the Miner's Canary," American Literary History (ALH) Fall 2008, 609-621.
The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas’ The Rain God,” in Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas’ Fictions, ed. Frederick Luis Aldama (Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2008): 21-38.
“Unsettling Race, Coloniality, and Caste in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Martinez’s Parrot in the Oven, and Roy’s The God of Small Things,” Cultural Studies 21/3-4 (March/May 2007): 339-367.
"In Search of the Mexican Elvis: Border Matters, Americanity, and Post-State-centric Thinking." Modern Fiction Studies, 49/1, 2003: 84-100.
"On the Bad Edge of La Frontera," Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, ed. Arturo Aldama, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002: 262-296.
"Migratory Locations: Subaltern Modernity and Inter-American Cultural Criticism," Foreword to Julio Ramos' Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001: xi-xxxiv.
"Looking Awry at 1898: Roosevelt, Montejo, and Paredes," American Literary History, 12/3 2000: 386-406.
"Las fronteras de Nuestra America: para volver a trazar el mapa de los Estudios Culturales Norteamericanos," Revista Casa de las Americas, 37/204 (julio-septiembre), 1996: 3-19.
"The Limits of Cultural Studies," The American Literary History Reader, ed. Gordon Hutner New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: 188-203.