Publications, Conferences and Service

Hector Torres, Demetria Martinez, Richard Rodriguez

Introduction of Richard Rodriguez at the Summer Lecture Series at Zimmerman Library, summer 2007 (Word text of the introduction available here)

Publications

Genre, Gender, and Mestiza consciousness in the work of Gloria Anzaldua. Forthcoming Gale Publishers.

Spirit Matter: An Interview with Demetria Martinez. Blue Mesa Review. Issue Sixteen (2004): 104-111.

"A Conversation with Lourdes Portillo/The Camera Under Erasure." Film and History Vol. 34.1 (2004): 66-72.

Review of Rúben Cobos' A Dictionary of New Mexican and Southern Spanish. Forthcoming in Hispanic Outlook.

"I Don't Think I Exist": Interview with Richard Rodriguez. MELUS. 28.2 (Summer 2003): 164-202.

Chicano Doppelgänger: Robert Rodriguez's First Remake and Second Revision. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 26.1 (Spring 2001): 159-170

The Ethnographic Component in Chicano/a Literary Discourse. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 25.1 (Spring 2000): 151-166.

In Context: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers. Eds. Harold Augenbraum and Margarite Fernández Olmos. London: Greenwood Press, 2000. 125-132.

Mestiza Consciousness and Dialect(ic)s: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. eds. Manuel Villar Rosa and Rosa Morillas Sánchez, Literatura Chicana: Reflexiones y ensayos críticos. Editorial Comares, Granada, Spain, 2000: 321-332.

Space, Difference, Mestizaje: The Erasure Mark in Contemporary Critical Chicano/a Discourse. U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives. Eds. Karin Ikas and Francisco Lomelí. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000. 143-157.

"Story, Telling, Voice: Narrative Authority in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters." Chicana (W)rites. eds. Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes, Third Woman Press: U of C Berkeley, CA. 1995.

Entry on Gary Soto. Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. Jim Kamp. 3rd Edition. Detroit: Michigan, St. James Press, 1994: Gale Research Inc. 797-799.

"X-bar Syntax in a Pedagogical Setting," University of New Mexico Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 2, 1994: 43-49.

"Supplementing the Binding Theory: On the Question of Proper Binding," University of New Mexico Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 1, 1993: 61-67.

"Genre-shifting, Political Discourse, and the Dialectics of Narrative Syntax in Gary Soto's Living Up the Street," Crítica: A Journal of Critical Essays, Spring 1989, Vol 2, Number 1, pp. 39-59.

Entry on Gary Soto, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers, Eds. Francisco Lomelí and Carl Shirley, Vol 82, First Series, Detroit: Michigan, 1989: Gale Research Inc., pp. 246-252.

Entry on Gloria Anzaldúa. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers, Second Series, Eds. Francisco Lomelí and Carl Shirley, Gale research Inch., Detroit, Michigan, 1991.

"Dialogue Structure and Levels of Discourse in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath," co-author with Louis Owens, Arizona Quarterly, Winter 1989, Vol 45, Number 4, pp. 75-94.

"Discourse and Plot in Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley: Narrativity and the Recovery of Chicano Heritage," Confluencia, Fall 1986, Vol. 2, Number 1, pp. 84-93.

Forthcoming

"I'm Writing About Things That Have Never Been Written About": Interview with Sandra Cisneros. MELUS. 29.2 (Summer 2004).

"I Don't Like the Labels and Categories: Interview with Arturo Islas. A Collection of Critical Work on the Legacy of Arturo Islas. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. Arte Público Press.

Interview with Lourdes Portillo. Special Issue of Latino Film Studies. Summer 2004.

Once Upon a Time in the Southwest: Castration Anxiety in Robert Rodriguez's Remaking of El Mariachi into Desperado. Interpretation of Dreams/Dreams of Interpretation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Spirit Matters: An Interview with Demetria Martinez. Blue Mesa Review. Spring 2004