Department Head and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies

Education:
BA, English, Willamette University, 1993;
PhD, English, Cornell University, 1998

Research Interests:
Chicana/o, U.S. Latina/o, and African American literatures and cultures; prisons in the United States; gender and sexuality; theories of identity and the self

Selected Publications:
Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism, co-edited with Paula M. L. Moya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)

Identity Politics Reconsidered, co-edited with Linda Martín Alcoff, Satya Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya (Palgrave, 2006)

Works in Progress:
Identity Complex: Gender, Race, and Sexuality from Oz to Abu Ghraib (University of Minnesota Press, under contract)

Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Ernesto Martínez (under review)

Recent Courses:
ES 499 Ethnic Studies Proseminar (Spring 2008; Spring 2007)
ES 407/507 The Chicana/o Novel (Spring 2008)
ES 102 Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Winter 2008; Winter 2007)
ES 407/507 Introduction to the Prison-Industrial Complex (Fall 2006)