Graduate Courses

“Pícaros, Prisoners, Peasants and Proletarians:  American Picaresque Literatures,” UTSA
Fall 2005.

“Race, Culture and Aesthetics:  Comparative U.S. Latina/o Literatures,” UTSA Fall 2004.

“Race, Place, and Space:  Chicana/o Spatial Poetics,” UTSA Spring 2004.

“Tell It Like It Is!:  Autobiography, Biography, Essay, and Testimonial in the Americas,” UTSA, Fall 2001.

“World Literatures in English:  Introduction to Post-Colonial Studies.” UTSA, Fall 2000.

“Poetry and Cross-cultural Poetics in the Americas.”  UTSA, Fall 1999.

Undergraduate Courses Taught

“Race, Nation Film:  Racial Discourse in American Cinematography,” Humanities Program, UTSA Fall 2005.

“In Living Color:  Race, Nation and Film in the U.S.,” American Studies Program, UTSA Fall 2004.

“Honors Seminar:  War in the American Imagination—War Literature and Film from the Colonial Era to the Present.”  Honors Program, UTSA Fall 2002.

“Senior Seminar:  Terrorism, War, and Writing:  Autobiographical War Narratives in the Americas.” UTSA Spring 2002.

“Theory of Literature:  Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literary and Cultural Explication.” UTSA Spring 2002.

“Introduction to Literature:  A Critical Survey of Theme and Form in Contemporary Society.” UTSA, Fall 2000, Spring 2002, Fall 2003, Summer 2004.

“Literature of Texas and the Southwest:  (Re)Constructing Borderlands Cultures and Identities.”  UTSA, Fall 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2001.

 “American Literature, 1945-Present:  Reconstructing the American Dream.” UTSA, Fall 2001 and Fall 2002.

“Bilingual Creative Writing—Poetry.” UTSA, Fall 2000.

“American Studies Seminar:  Chicanos and Film—(Re)Presentations of La Raza.” American Studies Program, UTSA, Spring 2000.

“American Literature, 1870-1945:  (Re)Creating the American Literary Heritage.”  American Studies Program, UTSA, Spring 2000.

“Major American Writers:  Literary (Re)Constructions of American History and Identity.” UTSA, Fall 1999 and Fall 2002.

“Senior Seminar:  Poetry and Politics in the Americas.” UTSA, Fall 1999.

“Multicultural Pedagogies/Multimedia Strategies.”  Team-taught course with Professor Louis Mendoza.  Division of Bilingual/Bicultural Studies, UTSA, Summer 1999.

“Honors Seminar in Diversity of Thought:  Multicultural Poetics—Culture, Politics, and Ideology in the Americas.”  Honors Program, UTSA, Spring 1999.

“Literary Criticism and Analysis:  Reading Texts in Context.” UTSA Spring 1999.

“Topics in Mexican American Literature:  Survey in U.S. Latina/o Literatures.” UTSA, Fall 1998.