Pamela Williams Hagerty

Academic Interests: Chicana/o literature, feminist theory, border identity in literature, twentieth-century American literature.

Current research project(s): Border identity in Chicana literature. Nationality and Sexuality in the Cuentos of Esperanza and Lala: Chicana Feminism in Sandra Cisneros’s Novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo.

Conference Presentations: “Cuentos of the Ancestors” COLFA conference, UTSA Spring 2004.

Hometown: Harlingen, TX

Previous degrees:
Bachelor’s of English Summa Cum Laude, UTSA

Favorite quotes:
“Then as now, the philosophy of sexual education for women was – the less said the better.  So why did this same society throw rocks at her for what they deemed reckless behavior when their silence was equally reckless.”
--Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo.

“Deep in our hearts we believe that being Mexican has nothing to do with which country one lives in.  Being Mexican is a state of soul – not one of mind, not one of citizenship.  Neither eagle nor serpent but both.”
--Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands.

Email: phagerty@satx.rr.com