April 2025 marks the publication of Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848 -1992, Vol. 2, co-edited by UC Berkeley English Professor John Alba Cutler and Professor Marissa K. López We offer our congratulations to Professors Cutler and López! "Latinx Literature in Transition, Vol. 2 is a rare work of true collaboration," Professor Cutler told us, "the product of several years of dialogue and workshopping not only between myself and Marissa, my co-editor, but also among the brilliant contributors to the volume. What a privilege to see this collective project between covers!"
"This book introduces scholars and students of literature to previously neglected or unknown works of literature-such as José Rodríguez Cerna's chronicles and Leonor Villegas de Magnón's memoir of the Mexican Revolution-as well as new approaches to canonical texts by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Julia de Burgos, Tomás Rivera, and Gloria Anzaldúa. It challenges how previous generations of scholars have understood American modernity by rejecting a standard, historical organization and instead unfolding in clusters of essays related to key terms-space, being, time, form, and labor-corresponding to the overlapping legacies of Spanish and US colonialism and expansion that frame Latinx experience. This volume showcases the diversity of US Latinx communities and cultures, including work on Mexican/Chicanx, Central American, and Caribbean figures and highlighting the evolution of scholarship on Afro-Latinx creative expression and Latinx representations of indigeneity."