Conferences
Refereed
Conference Presentations
“Towards a
Pinto Human Rights?: New Strategies for Latina/o Prison Research
and
Activism.” Latina/os Behind Bars Conference, Chicago, October 21,
2006.
“The Soldado
Razo as Floating Signifier and the ‘Limits’ of Latina/o Spatial
Ontology.”
American Studies Association, Oakland, October 15, 2006.
“The
Soldado Razo as Paradigmatic ‘Enemy Combatant’: The
Mexican-American War as
Master Narrative.” National Association for Chicana and Chicano
Studies, Guadalajara,
Mexico, June 29, 2006.
“Prison, Place
and Appropriation: Modesta Avila as Paradigmatic Pinta.” National
Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Miami, April 15, 2005.
Panel
Moderator, “Latina/o Cultural Cross-Dressing.” National Association
for Chicana
and Chicano Studies, Miami, April 14, 2005.
“Chicano
Organic Intellectuals: Luis Rodriguez and Testimonial Interventions
into Chicano
Masculinity.” International Sociological Association, Sociology of
Culture Conference, San
Antonio, March 30, 2005.
Discussant,
“The Politics of Latino Signification.” Siglo XXI: Latino Research
into the 21st
Century, Austin, January 28, 2005.
Panel
Moderator, “Urban Communities in Global Local Perspective.” Annual
Conference
of the American Studies Association of Texas, San Antonio, November
20, 2004.
“Jimmy
Santiago Baca and the Chicano Picaresque.” National Association for
Chicana
and Chicano Studies, Albuquerque, April 2004.
“Luis
Rodriguez and Testimonial Transformations of Gangxploitation.”
Popular Culture
Association, San Antonio, March 2004.
“Translating
Américo Paredes: Latino Literary Culture in 1920s and 1930s
Spanish-
Language Newspapers in Texas.” XXX Annual Conference of the
National Association for
Chicana and Chicano Studies, Los Angeles, April 5, 2003.
“Amor de Lejos: The Transnational
Imaginary in Latina/o (Im)Migration Narratives.”
Modern Language Association Conference, New York, December 27, 2002.
“Reassessing Pocho Poetics: Américo Paredes’
Poetry and the (Trans)National Question.”
Joint Conference of the Recovering the Hispanic Literary Heritage
Project and American
Studies Association, Houston, November 15, 2002.
“Prison Pedagogy: Negotiating Hegemony in
Prison Scholarship and Activism.” XVI
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic
Literatures of the United
States. Seattle, Washington, April 11, 2002.
“The Personal is Political: The Multi-Media
‘Testimonio’ Assignment in the Undergraduate
Multi-Ethnic Literature Course.” XVI Annual Conference of the
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United
States. Seattle, Washington, April 12, 2002.
“Pochos, Patriarchy and Poetry: Reassessing
Américo Paredes’ Between Two Worlds
and Cantos de Adolescencia.” XXIX Annual Conference of
the National Association for
Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicago, Illinois, March 29, 2002.
“Towards a Pedagogy of Solidarity: The
Testimonial Assignment in Secondary Education
Teacher Training.” V Congress of the Americas, Universidad de
las Américas, Puebla,
Mexico, October 20, 2001.
“Of
Truths, Secrets, and Ski Masks: Counterrevolutionary Appropriations
and Zapatista
Revisions of Testimonio.” V Congress of the Americas, Universidad
de las Américas,
Puebla, Mexico, October 19, 2001.
“Nation, Narration, and Identity in Chicano War
Narratives: Towards a New Chicano
Internationalism?” XXVIII Annual Conference of the National
Association for Chicana and
Chicano Studies, Tucson, Arizona, April 2001.
“Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano: Identity,
Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican
American War Narratives.” Annual Conference of Ford Fellows,
Irvine, California,
October 13, 2000.
“Chicano
Culture, Prison Literature and Grassroots Politics: The Case of
Fred Gomez
Carrasco.” XXVII Annual Conference of the National Association for
Chicana and Chicano
Studies, Portland, Oregon, March 24, 2000.
“Culture, History, and Power in South Texas:
Fred Gómez Carrasco as a Floating
Signifier.” Latinos 2000 Conference, Hanover, February 5, 2000.
“Resituating the Soldado Razo: Race,
Identity, and Ideology in Mexican American World
War II Literature and Film.” Conference on U.S. Latinos and Latinas
& World War II, Austin,
Texas, May 27, 2000.
“El Corrido de Fred Gómez Carrasco: The
Social Psychology of a Chicano Convict Ballad
and Its Bad-Man Hero.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United
States Annual Conference,
New Orleans, Louisiana, March 11, 2000.
“Doing Prison Work: Negotiating Pedagogy,
Privilege and Power in Upstate New York.”
Teaching Prison/Prison Teaching Panel Presentation, Critical
Resistance Conference,
Berkeley, California, September 25, 1998.
“Race, Violence, and Epistemology: Towards a
Spectatorship of Resistance in Chicano
Prison Films.” Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto,
December 30, 1997.
“Cantinas, Convicts, and the Chicano Movement:
El Corrido de Fred Gómez Carrasco.”
American Studies Association of Texas Conference, San Antonio,
November 21, 1997.
“Mothers, Daughters, and Deities: Judy
Lucero’s Gynocritical Poetics and Materialist
Politics.” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore,
May 24, 1997.
Panel Coordinator and Presenter, “Chicanas and
Chicanos in the Ivy League: Testimonials
and Critiques from Cornell University.” XXIII Annual Conference of
the National Association
for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicago, March 21, 1996.
“Storming the Tower: Chicana Convicts Writing
Resistance.” El Frente: U.S. Latinas
Under Attack and Fighting Back—A Conference on U.S. Latina
Feminisms, Cornell
University, October 13, 1995.
Panel Coordinator, “Tongues and Tattoos:
Chicana/o Body Politics.” XXIII Annual Meeting
of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies,
Spokane, March 31, 1995.
“The Semiotics of the Pinto Visual
Vernacular: The Political and Symbolic Economy of the
Abjected Body.” Joint presentation with Louis Mendoza, XXIII Annual
Meeting of the
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Spokane, March
31, 1995.
Panel Co-coordinator, “Un Re-encuentro con
Ricardo Sánchez: The Literary and Political
Legacy.” XXI Annual Meeting of the National Association for Chicana
and Chicano Studies,
San Jose, March 24, 1993.
“Echando Madres: The Political and
Symbolic Economy of Dialogism in Pinto Poetry—
The Case of Ricardo Sánchez.” XXI Annual Meeting of the National
Association for
Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Jose, March 24, 1993.
“Echando Madres: The Political and
Symbolic Economy of Dialogism in Pinto Poetry—
The Case of Ricardo Sánchez.” Crossing Borders: First Annual
Interdisciplinary
Conference on the Chicano Experience, Washington State University at
Pullman,
June 12, 1992.
Panel Coordinator, “Twenty Years Later:
Chicana/o Literature in Perspective.” Floricanto
Festival, Stanford University, February 20, 1990.
“Unraveling
the Myth of the Minotaur Poet: A Thematic Analysis of Ricardo
Sánchez’
Poetry.” XXVII Annual Meeting of the National Association for
Chicana and Chicano
Studies, Los Angeles, April 29, 1989.
Invited Lectures, Conference and
Roundtable Presentations
Participant. “The Mestizaje Project: A Round
Table Discussion.” Trinity University,
September 22, 2006.
“Setting the Record Straight: Stage, Staging
and Simulacrum in Zoot Suit, Soldierboy and
Voices of Valor.” Third National Symposium U.S. Latinos and
World War II Oral History
Project Workshop and Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, March
24, 2006.
“Staging the Soldado Razo: Identity and
Ideology in Mexican American WWII Theater.”
Voices of Valor Symposium, Arizona State University, Phoenix,
Arizona, March 11, 2006.
“Re-Theorizing Mestizaje: Literary
Archetypes from Ariel to Calibán and Beyond.”
Revealing Retratos: Un Taller Popular—The Revealing Retratos
Project, Trinity University
MAS Center (Mexico, the Americas and Spain), San Antonio Museum of
Art, San Antonio,
February 25, 2006.
“Latina/o (Anti)War Literature and the War on
Terror.” Realities of War Symposium,
University of Texas Downtown Campus, November 3, 2005.
“Reaching Special Needs Latino Students in
Standardized Testing Through Urban
Literature.” Invited Lecture, Educational Testing Service, San
Antonio, October 12, 2005.
“What Now?: Taking Chances and the Humanist
Challenge in the Era of Never-Ending
War.” Keynote Address, English Department Honors Day Ceremony,
University of Houston,
April 27, 2005.
“Chicana/o Archetypes or Mainstream
Stereotypes: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the
Chicana/o Picaresque.” Department of English, University of
Houston, April 26, 2005.
“Every Child is Born a Poet.” Panel
Participant, University of Texas at San Antonio,
March 29, 2004.
Panel Co-organizer and Co-presenter. “An Ocean
of Changes: Navigation Strategies for
Postdoctoral Fellows.” Annual Conference of Ford Fellows,
Albuquerque, New Mexico,
October 4, 2002.
“Towards a Poetic of Working Class Ethics:
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.” San
Antonio Women’s Book Discussion Group.” University Presbyterian
Church, San Antonio,
August, 21, 2002.
“Ideology, Ambiguity, and Critique: Américo
Paredes and the National Question.” Pasó
Por Aquí: An Américo Paredes Symposium. Center for Mexican
American Studies,
University of Texas at Austin, May 4, 2001.
Symposium Organizer, Moderator and Presenter.
“New Directions in Chicana and Chicano
Poetry,” Palabras: A Latina/o Literary Festival Sponsored by
the Mexic-Arte Gallery and the
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, March 30, 2001.
Panel Moderator. “In Search of Borders and
Identity.” XXVI Annual National Association for
Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 1,
1999.
Respondent. “Vía La Virgen: Symbols
and Struggles Políticos.” XXVI Annual National
Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, San Antonio,
Texas, April 29,
1999.
“Chicano Art
in Public Space.” Joint presentation with Professors Louis Mendoza
and
Ellen Riojas-Clark. Latino Heritage Week, University of Texas at
San Antonio,
September 14, 1999.
“Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano:
Identity, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican
American War Narratives.” Department of English, Cornell
University, December 4, 1998.
“Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano:
Ideology, Ambiguity, and Critic in Mexican
American War Art, Literature, and Film.” Division of English,
Classics, Philosophy, and
Communication, University of Texas at San Antonio, November 2, 1998.
“Viva la Raza: Critical Reflections on
Borders, Barrios, and Batos Locos.” Joint
Presentation with Louis Mendoza, Latino Heritage Week, University of
Texas at San
Antonio, September 14, 1998.
“Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano:
Ideology, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican
American War Narratives.” Center for Mexican American Studies,
University of Texas at
Austin, April 9, 1998.
“Chicana/o Literature, Ideology, and Power.”
Symposium on Latina/o Voices in U.S.
Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio, September 17, 1998.
“Mothers, Daughters, and Deities: Judy
Lucero’s Gynocritical Poetics and Materialist
Politics.” Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and
Communication, University of
Texas at San Antonio, February 13, 1997.
“Colonialism, Internal Colonialism, and Chicano
and Puerto Rican Cultural Responses.”
Africana Studies Research Center, Cornell University, November 6,
1996.
“Racism, Psychopathology and the Latent Power
of Dissonance: Towards a Theory of
Empowerment for Racial Minorities in the U.S.” Africana Studies
Research Center, Cornell
University, November 29, 1995.
“Tattoos, Abjection and the Political
Unconscious: Towards a Semiotics of the Pinto Visual
Vernacular.” Special Panel Presentation, “Traditions and
Transitions: Tattooing in the Late
Twentieth Century,” for Tattoo Art Exhibit: “Pierced Hearts and
True Love—A Century of
Drawings for Tattoos,” The Drawing Center, New York City, October
17, 1995.
“Resistance and Affirmation: ‘August 29, 1970’
as Master Narrative in the Chicano Political
and Cultural Imagination.” Sponsored by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlán,
Cornell University, August 29, 1995.
“The Dialectics of Academic Privilege and
Political Agency: Student Activism and Social
Change.” Sponsored by Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Señoritas Latinas
Unidas Sorority,
Cornell University, April 15, 1995.
“El Dieciséis de Septiembre: Culture,
Conflict and Chicanismo.” Keynote address for the
2nd Annual Celebration of El Dieciséis de Septiembre
Sponsored by La Unidad
Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Cornell University,
September 16, 1995.
“Evangelina Vigil’s Thirty ‘an Seen Alot:
The Adumbration of the Chicana Renaissance
Critique of the Patriarchal Paradigm of Aztlán.” Department of
English, Rice University,
January 14, 1994.
“Genealogy of the Pachuco as a Cultural Icon:
From Social Pariah to Vernacular
Intellectual.” Chicana/o Fellows Program, Stanford University,
November 4, 1994.
“Storming the Tower: Auto-Mythification in the
Poetry of Judy Lucero—Tecata, Pinta, Poeta
#21918.” Stanford Center for Chicano Research, May 12, 1993.
“The Pinto Visual Vernacular: Chicano
Convict Tattoos as Cultural Resistance.” Chicana/o
Fellows Program, Stanford University, April 15, 1993.
“Unraveling
the Myth of the Minotaur Poet: Ricardo Sánchez and the Dialectics
of Prison
and Poetry.” Stanford Center for Chicano Research, Stanford
University, May 22, 1991.
Literary
Readings & Creative Writing Workshops
Joint Poetry
Reading, The Green Mill with Host Marc Smith, Chicago, October 23,
2006.
Joint Poetry
Reading. La Resistencia Bookstore, Austin, Texas, September
2, 2006.
Joint Poetry
Reading. Camilo Cienfuegos School, Granma Province, Cuba, July 6,
2006.
Invited Lecturer/Poetry Reader. “Beyond the
Gansta (C)Rap: Chicana/o Poetry Lecture and
Young Adult Workshop.” Dwight Middle School, San Antonio Texas,
March 27, 2006.
Featured
Poet. “Palabristas & Chicana/o Studies Department Poet’s Series,”
University of
Minneapolis. April 6, 2006.
Invited
Lecturer and Workshop Facilitator. “The History and Practice of
Latina/o Political
Poetry: A Lecture & Creative Writing Workshop.” Chicana/o Studies
Department, University
of Minnesota, April 7, 2006.
Featured Guest
Poet. “SynonymUS: Poetry/Music/Movement Program,” Nuyorican Poet’s
Café, New York. July 20, 2006.
