POSITION • EDUCATION • AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION •
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS • PUBLICATIONS • INVITED
PRESENTATIONS •ACTIVITIES • UNIVERSITY SERVICE •
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
POSITION
Director, Undergraduate Program of the Center for Comparative Studies in
Race and Ethnicity and Chair, Major in Comparative Studies in Race and
Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2002-03
Associate Professor, Department of English, Stanford University, January
2002-present
Associate Professor, by courtesy appointment, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, Stanford University, January 2002-present
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Stanford University, 1996-2001
Assistant Professor, by courtesy appointment, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, Stanford University, 1998-2001
EDUCATION
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1991-1996
Ph.D. in English, August 1998
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1987-1991
B.A. in English, graduated summa cum laude with University Honors and
Honors in Major
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1980-1981
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Literature and Culture of Chicana/os and Latina/os
Minority and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives
American Literature
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Stanford Fellow, 2003-04
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 2001-02
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2000-01
Brown Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2000-01
CCSRE Junior Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 1999-2000
Outstanding Chicana/o Faculty Member, Stanford University, 1997-1998
Dissertation Completion Project Fellowship, Tomás Rivera Center, July 1995
Women’s Studies Program Fellowship, Cornell University, Summer 1995
Chicana/Latina Summer Research Institute Fellowship, UC-Davis, Summer
1995
Graduate School Minority Student Fellowship, Cornell University, 1994-96
Gertrude Spencer Teaching Prize, Cornell University, Fall 1993
Faulkenau Fellowship for University Service, Cornell University, Fall 1993
J. Saunders Redding Fellowship, Cornell University, 1991-93
Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship, University of Houston, 1991
Khristen Shepler Memorial Scholarship, University of Houston, 1990-91
Honors Program Scholarship, University of Houston, 1989-90
National Merit Scholarship, 1980
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism,
co-edited with Michael Hames-García, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2000.
Journal Special Issue
Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary, co-edited with Ramón Saldívar,
special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, 49.1 (2003).
Articles
"With Us or Without Us: The Development of a Latino Public Sphere,"
Nepantla: Views from the South, 4.2 (2003):
"Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory," Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, 26.2 (2001): 441-83.
"Why I Am Not Hispanic: An Argument with Jorge Gracia." The American
Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy,
01.1 (2001).
"A Symphony of Anger: Notes Toward a Transformation of Feminist Politics,"
Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics, 8.1-2 (1996):
1-13.
Chapters in Books
"Introduction: Reclaiming Identity," Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and
the Predicament of Postmodernism, eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael
Hames-García, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 1-26. Reprinted
in Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice, 3.2
(2001): 32 pars. 30 May 2001 <http://eserver.org/clogic/3-1%262/moya.html>.
"Cultural Particularity vs. Universal Humanity: The Value of Being Asimilao,"
Hispanics/Latinos in the US: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights, eds. Jorge Gracia and
Pablo DeGreiff, New York: Routledge, 2000. 77-97.
"Postmodernism, ‘Realism,’ and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and
Chicana Feminism," Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic
Futures, eds. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, New York:
Routledge, 1997. 125-50, 379-84. Partially reprinted under the title "Chicana
Identity," The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader. 2nd ed. Eds. Gail
M. Presbey, Karsten J. Struhl and Richard E. Olsen. Boston: McGraw Hill,
1999. 576-580.
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INVITED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
"Multiculturalism beyond Postmodernism," Plenary speech, Beyond: New
Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching,
The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE),
Brussels, Belgium, November 29, 2002.
"Globalizing Minority Studies: The Persistence of Identity in Contemporary
Cultural Theory," Keynote speech, Shifting Terrains: Translations and
Identity-Formations in an Era of Transnationality conference, Rice University,
February 22, 2002.
"Reading as a Realist," Dialogical Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism
working group, Duke University, February 8, 2002.
"Latina/o Identity," The Color of Hegemony: Latinos/as in the U.S. & North
Carolina conference, Duke University, February 9, 2002.
"Reading as a Realist" and "The Teacherly Text: Complete Literacy in Luis
Rodriguez’s Always Running," Realism and Its Discontents, Graduate Summer
School of Literature and Literary Theory, Karlskrona, Sweden, June 12, 14,
2001.
"Familia: Myths and Realities," Chicana Plenary speech, 28th Annual
Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies
(NACCS), Tucson, Arizona, April 6, 2001.
"What is Identity and Why is it Important?" Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?
Progressive Politics, Minority Identities colloquium, Hamilton College,
November 16, 2000.
"Chicana Literary Criticism," public lecture sponsored by the departments of
English and Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, April 22, 1999.
"Realist Proposals for Multicultural Education," Writers at the Border
conference, Rutgers University, April 16, 1999.
"The Latina/oization of Chicano Studies," The Routes of Culture: Chicana/o
Arts in an Age of Displacements, Institute on Culture and Migration, University
of California at Santa Barbara, November 7, 1998.
"Cultural Particularity vs. Universal Humanity: The Value of Being asimilao,"
Ethnic Identity, Culture and Group Rights: The Case of Hispanics/Latinos
interdisciplinary symposia, University at Buffalo, October 3, 1998.
"Breaking Silences/Speaking Out," Black and Latino Action Coalition
conference, Syracuse University, February 15, 1998.
"Heterogeneity of Chicana Feminism: Problems and Possibilities," moderator
for plenary session, 1995 Chicana/Latina Summer Research Institute, UCDavis, August 17, 1995.
"A Symphony of Anger: Notes Toward a Transformation of Feminist Politics,"
keynote speech, Narrating Our Own Stories: Women Claim Their Voice(s)
conference, SUNY Oneonta, April 21, 1995.
"The Identity Crisis in the ‘Hispanic American/Latino’ Studies Program at
Cornell University," Joint Ethnic Studies Colloquium Series, Cornell
University, February 20, 1995.
"US Latina/o Literature and Cultural Identity," discussant at forum sponsored
by the Latino Educational Coalition, Ithaca College, April 21, 1994.
"The Case for US Latina/o Literature," public lecture sponsored by the Latino
Educational Coalition, Ithaca College, April 14, 1994.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)
Stanford Organizer, The Future of Minority Studies: Redefining Identity
Politics,
a national interdisciplinary research initiative.
Televised interview with author Luis Rodriguez, Stanford University,
November 7, 2000.
Co-Coordinator, El Frente: U.S. Latinas Under Attack and Fighting Back, a
conference on U.S. Latina Feminisms at Cornell University, October 13-14,
1995.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected)
Americanist Search Committee, English Department, Stanford University,
2000-present.
Lora Romero Memorial Lecture Committee, English Department, Stanford
University, Chair, 1999-2000; Co-chair 2000-2001
Junior Search Committee, English Department, Stanford University, 19992000.
Resource Faculty for Feminist Studies, Stanford University, 1996-present.
Resource Faculty for the Center for the Comparative Studies in Race and
Ethnicity (CCSRE)
Departmental Advisory Committee, English Department, Stanford University,
1998-99.
Rhetoric Search Committee, English Department, Stanford University, 199899.
At-large Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Cornell
University, 1994-95.
Graduate Student Representative, University Assembly, Cornell University,
1994-95.
Coordinator, Student Ad Hoc Coalition on the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at
Cornell University, Fall 1994.
President, U.S. Latina/o Graduate Student Coalition, Cornell University, 199394.
Co-Coordinator, U.S. Latina/o Studies Colloquia, Cornell University, 1993-94.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Studies Association (ASA)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)