Miguel Samano

Specialties: 
20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Linguistics
Narrative & the Novel
Biography: 

I focus on post45 U.S. literature, visual art, and performance, especially Chicanx/Latinx and comparative multiethnic, in relation to social theory and the history of social thought. My current interests include new formalisms, perception and attention, phenomenological approaches to literature, interactional sociology, sociology of language, and the linguistic anthropology of literature.

Role: 
Graduate Student

Selected Publications

Publications
  • Review of In the Meantime: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition by Erin Murrah-Mandril.  Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, vol. 47, no.2, Fall 2022.
  • “History’s Happenings: Antonio Bernal’s Del Rey Mural—Possibly in Performance, August 25, 1968.” The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884-2019, edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2022, pp. 29-49.
  •  “The Eventfulness of Antonio Bernal’s Breaking the Silence.” The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884-2019, edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2022, pp. 50-56.
  • "Representational Abstractionism and Realism: Two Approaches to Chicano Art.” The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 18, Spring 2019, pp. 10-14.
Presentations
  • "'Juát du yu sei? Ai du no tok spanish': Focalized Linguistic Incomprehension in Daniel Venegas's Don Chipote (1928)," The Novel as Sound Archive, Society for Novel Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 18-20, 2023.
  • “The Integrity of Talk in Under the Feet of Jesus,” New Approach to Viramontes, 5th Biennial US Latinx Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, April 5-7, 2023.
  • “Who Framed the Biscuit Boy? Changes in Footing in Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging,” 36th annual Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) conference, University of New Orleans, March 23-28, 2022.
  • "'Jarring and re-tuning the physics of reading and understanding':  The Metapragmatics of Alurista's Spik in Glyph?," Contact Zones, 34th Annual Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference, April 8, 2021.
  • “Antonio Bernal Hopping’s Del Rey Mural as Performance Ephemera,” Chicano Mural, Car, and Print Culture, 6th Latino Art Now! Conference, University of Houston, April 5, 2019.
Miguel Samano

Contact

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