Education

Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences, Stanford University, January 1996.
          Specialization:  U.S. Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies.
          Secondary Fields:  Comparative Literature of the Americas; Literary and Cultural Theory.
          Dissertation:  “Testimonios Pintaos:  The Symbolic and Political Economy of Chicana/o
                    Convict Discourse.”
          Advisors:  Mary Louise Pratt, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, and Ramón Saldívar.

 M.A., College of Arts and Sciences, Stanford University, July 1992.
          Master’s Report:  “Hacia una poetica revolucionaria sobre ‘lo negro’: homosexuales,
                    gitanos y negros en Poeta en Nueva York y otras obras por Federico García
                    Lorca” (“Towards a Revolutionary Poetic of ‘Blackness’:  Homosexuals, Gypsies
                    and Blacks in Federico Garcia Lorca’s Poet in New York and Other Works”).
          Advisor:  Michael Predmore.

B.A., with Honors, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, and Honors Program, University of Houston, December 1989.
            Specialization:  Mexican American Literature.
            Secondary Fields:  English and Creative Writing.
            Honors Thesis:  “Ironía e influencia en Aztlán:  la poesía ritual nahuatl y la poetica
                      española del siglo de oro en la poesía nacionalista de Alurista” (“Influence and
                      Irony in Aztlán:  Nahuatl Ritual Verse and Spanish Golden Age Poetics in
                      Alurista’s Nationalist Poetry.”)
            Advisor:  Nicolás Kanellos.