Graduate Teaching

Grad courses over the last few years have centered on issues of space, interdisciplinarity, and critical regionalism and/or globalization.  I advise fields in contemporary U.S. literature, critical race theory, social movements, oral history, historiography of feminism, and popular and youth cultures. 

Recent dissertations I have advised address topics like masculinity in 19th century slave narratives and contemporary hip hop culture; violence against women in Vietnam memoir and film; comparative theorizations of mestizaje in Dominican, Cuban and Chicano/a literatures; rodeo cowboys, literary cowboys, ethnography; ecocriticism and Chicano/a literature;  mixed-race subjectivity in 20th century Asian American literature and history.

2007 Spring, "Matters of Space: L.A., Indian Country, Borderlands and Beyond" syllabus. 

2009 September. “Líder Académico,”
Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey,
Campus Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 

Courses in Development

• History and Memory in the Literatures of 1968
• American Studies and the Problem of the Real