Ernesto Martinez
Assistant Professor
| Office | 322 Hendricks Hall |
| Telephone | (541) 346-5523 |
| ejm@uoregon.edu |
Interests
- Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies
- U.S. Latina and Latino literature and culture
- Literary Theory
Affiliations
Research
- Queer Race Narratives: On the Practice and Politics of Intelligibility (In progress)
This book turns to the literature and cultural production of gays and lesbians of color in the United States in order to answer some important questions in contemporary social theory regarding the nature of knowledge acquisition and knowledge production in oppressive contexts. Specifically, this book traces discourses of intelligibility, recurring preoccupations with the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others in contexts of intense ideological violence and interpersonal conflict. - Engaging Our Faculties: New Dialogues on Diversity in Higher Education (In progress)
This volumn consists of 10 critical essays written by junior faculty of color from multiple disciplinary backgrounds and 10 responses to those essays written by university Presidents, Provosts, and Deans from across the nation. Each chapter and response points to new frameworks for understanding how universities can better address the institutional practices that encumber and constrain junior faculty of color and that ultimately undermine their effectiveness in pursuing transformative, social justice-oriented work.
Publications
Edited Collections- Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, co-edited with Michael Hames-García (Duke University Press, Forthcoming).
- "Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form," Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Eds. Michael Hames-García and Ernesto J. Martínez. (Duke University Press, Forthcoming).
- "Re-membering Gay Latino Studies" (co-written with Michael Hames-García), Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Eds. Michael Hames-García and Ernesto J. Martínez. (Duke University Press, Forthcoming).
- "On Butler on Morrison On Language," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. (Forthcoming, Summer 2010).
- "Dying to Know: Identity and Self-Knowledge in Baldwin's Another Country." PMLA 124.3 (May 2009): 782-797.
Biography
Professor Martinez received his BA from Stanford University in 1998. He received an MA from Cornell University in 2003 and a PhD in 2005. He joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2006.