Education

• B.A., English UC Berkeley 1996
• M.A.., English U of Wisconsin, Madison 1999
• Ph.D., English UC Berkeley 2006

Interests

Chicana/o Literature; 19th century literature, especially the literature of the west and California; narratology; novel theory; globalization and transnational studies; bodies and corporeal subjectivity.

Selected Works

“The Language of Resistance: Alurista’s Global Poetics” (MELUS: The Journal of The Society for The Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States 33:1 [2008] 93 - 116)

“The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo” (American Literary History 19:4 [2008] 874 - 904)

“Chicano Literature: theoretically speaking, formally reading Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia” (Aztlán: a journal of Chicano Studies 32:2 [2007] 139 - 156)