La Pinta:  History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana/o Convict Discourses.  Completed and
Under Review, University of Texas Press.

Soldado Razo:  Race, Soldiering and (Trans)National Citizenship in Mexican American
War Narratives, 1835-2005.  In Progress and Expected Completion Spring 2008.

Refereed Articles in Journals & Anthologies

“Reassessing Pocho Poetics:  Américo Paredes and the (Trans)National Question.” Aztlán:
A Journal of Chicano Studies 30:  1 (Spring 2005).  87-121.

“Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Chicano Picaresque.”   Latino and Latina Writers, Volume I:
Introductory Essays—Chicano and Chicana Authors.  Ed. Alan West-Durán.  Farmington
Hills:  Gale Press, 2004.  161-171.

“Luís J. Rodriguez and Chicano Testimonial Discourse.”   Latino and Latina Writers, Volume
I:  Introductory Essays—Chicano and Chicana Authors.   Ed. Alan West-Durán.  Farmington
Hills:  Gale Press, 2004.  441-453.

 “Barrios of the World Unite!:  Regionalism, Transnationalism, and Internationalism in Tejano
War Poetry from the Mexican Revolution to World War II.”  Left of the Color Line:  Race,
Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States.  Eds. Bill V. Mullen and
James Smethurst.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2003.  107-39.

“Amor de Lejos:  Latina/o (Im)migration Literatures.”  Crossing Into America:  The New
Literature of Immigration.  Eds. Louis Mendoza and Subramanian Shankar.  New York:  The
New Press, 2003.  327-42.

“Of Truth, Secrets, and Ski Masks:  Counterrevolutionary Appropriations and Zapatista
Revisions of Testimonial Narrative.” Nepantla:Views from South 3.2 (Winter 2002):  145-78.

“Sangre Mexicana/Corazón Americano:  Identity, Ambiguity, and Critique in Mexican
American War Narratives. Journal of American Literary History 14:  1  (Winter 2002):  83-114.

“Mothers, Daughters, and Deities:  Judy Lucero’s Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist
Chicana Politics.”  Frontiers:  A Journal of Women’s Studies XXII:  2 (Fall 2001):  63-86.

“Echando Madres:  Dialogism in Chicano Convict Poetry.”  The Ricardo Sánchez Reader.
Ed. Arnoldo Carlos Vento.  Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2000.  81-106.

“Tattoos, Abjection, and the Political Unconscious:  Towards a Semiotics of the Pinto Visual
Vernacular.”  Cultural Critique 37 (Fall 1997):  159-213.

Creative Writing

Red Leather Gloves:  Boxing Poems by B. V. Olguín.  Under Review.

 “Sombras de Sangre/Shadows of Blood:  Bilingual Poems by B. V. Olguín.”  In progress. 

Refereed Translation Projects

Lead Researcher and Co-Translator.  Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth By Américo
Paredes, Translated with An Introduction and Annotations by B. V. Olguín and Omar
Vasquez Barbosa.  Forthcoming, Arte Público Press, 2007.

Co-Translator (all Spanish-language correspondence).   My Weapon is My Pen:
raúlrsalinas’ Selected Writings from the Jail Machine (1963-1974), Ed. Louis Mendoza.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 

Refereed Encyclopedia Entries

“Chicano Movement” (4,000 words).  Forthcoming, Encyclopedia Latina:  History, Culture,
Society.  Ed. Ilan Stavans.  Danbury:  Grolier, 2005.

“Brownness” (1,000 words).  Forthcoming, Encyclopedia Latina:  History, Culture, Society.
Ed. Ilan Stavans.  Danbury:  Grolier, 2005.

“Dichos” (500 words).  Forthcoming, Encyclopedia Latina:  History, Culture, Society.  Ed.
Ilan Stavans.  Danbury:  Grolier, 2005. 

Non-Refereed Interviews

“Una Plática con Raúl Salinas, 1994.”  My Weapon is My Pen:  raúlrsalinas’ Selected
Writings from the Jail Machine (1963-1974), Ed. Louis Mendoza.  Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2006.

 Non-Refereed Academic Book Reviews

Review of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies:  Chicana Literature and the Urgency of
Space, by Mary Pat Brady (Durham:  Duke University Press:  2002).  Cultural Geographies
14:  4 (Spring 2006). 

Selected Journalism (Editorial Review Publications)

“To Be or Not To Be...  Mestizo:  Santos’s Work Weaves Through the Cultural Minefield.”
San Antonio Current (September 27-October 3, 2006):  12-14 (3,000 words feature.)

“When the Mierda Hit the Fan:  Walkout Tells Story of the Chicano Students Who Made
History in Los Angeles.”  San Antonio Current (March 15-21, 2006):  23. 

“An Army of Juan:  Latino War Lit Raises Thorny Questions About Identity and Loyalty.”
San Antonio Current (May 24-30, 2006):  13-14.  (1,500 word feature.)

“Women’s Studies Institute Graduate Student Awarded Prestigious Ford Fellowship.”
UTSA Women’s Studies Institute Newsletter (Summer 2005):  2.

“Pulitzer Poet Joins Literary Series:  Philip Levine’s Writing Celebrates America’s Working
Class.”  San Antonio Express-News (February 23, 2003):  J1-2.

“Access for All:  UTSA and the Affirmative Action Debate.”  Sombrilla:  The University of
Texas at San Antonio Magazine 19:  1 (Fall 2002):  35.

“Chapbooks Provide Fresh Venue for Poetry.”  Book Review of The Laughter of Doves by
Francis Benavides and Aluminum Times by John Olivares Espinoza. San Antonio
Express-News (March 15, 2001):  J5.

“Blues, Blacks and Brotherhood:  San Antonio Poets in Search of MLK’s Dream.”  Book
Review of Perceptions by Charles L Peters, Jr.  San Antonio Current (January 28-February
3, 1999):  14.

“West Side Tongue Waggler:  Chicano Spoken Word Artists Takes it to the Street.”  Book
Review of Revolution Reborn (San Antonio:  Pecan Grove, 1998), by Juan Antonio Meza-
Compian.  The San Antonio Current (December 24, 1998 - January 2, 1999):  15, 42.

“Brown Skin, Purple Heart:  Southside Vietnam Stories.”  Book Review of Humidity Moon
(San Antonio:  Grove, 1999), by Michael W. Rodriguez.  The San Antonio Current (April
15-21, 1998):  19, 51.

“Literature Blossoms:  Inter-American Bookfair Celebrates Indigenous Roots.”  Preview of
12th Annual San Antonio Inter-American Bookfair and Literary Festival.”  San Antonio
Current (October 8-14, 1998):   15.

“Taking Sides on the U.S.-Mexico War.”  Film Review of The U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848),
Directors Rob Tranchin and Paul Espinoza.  Reprinted in El Político (September 28, 1998): 2.

“Taking Sides on the U.S.-Mexico War.”  Film Review of The U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848),
Directors Rob Tranchin and Paul Espinoza, The San Antonio Current (September 10-16,
1998):  18, 22. 

“Showdown at the Alamo:  Theater Conference Challenges Arts Defunding of Esperanza
Peace and Justice Center.”  Theater Review, The San Antonio Current (August 13-19,
1998):  19-20. 

“True or False?:  Chicana Poet Falls Short in Spoken Word Performance.”  Book Review of
Chicana Falsa, by Michelle Serros, The San Antonio Current (June 18-24, 1998).

“Recorded Poetry Takes Verse to Its Roots—In their Own Voices:  A Century of Recorded
Poetry (Rhino Records, 1996).”  Book Review, The San Antonio Current (June 4-10, 1998):
12-13.

“Poetry Slam or Pocketbook Scam:  Borders Spams Customers in Iambic Pentameter.”
Poetry Review, San Antonio Current (April 23-29, 1998):  17.