I began teaching Chicana/o literature in the mid-1990s as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I
Category: 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series
El Encuentro/The Encounter, A Review
March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature We recommend El Encuentro (English version The Encounter) by Rita Wirkala, a Young Adult
Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz
March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature “One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet, Andrés Montoya.
Our Dad Is In Atlantis: Border Crossings as Latinx Theater Practice
March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature A butterfly calls
Restoring History, Brick by Brick
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature As a historical and biographical novel, The Brick People (Arte
The Poems the Border Crossed: Attending to the Resilient Geographies of the Tohono O’odham and Pima People
March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature I remember sitting in a Caribbean Literature course in college and
LatinAsian and Black Latinx Migrations in Literature
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature My first choice for teaching a Latinx migration literary piece
Migrants in the Land of Plenty
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Público Press, 2012) by
Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of
Considering Consumption in Teaching Latinx Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature Like a series of mixtapes, my Latinx literature syllabi feature
On The Tattooed Soldier and What We Carry in Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature In the immigrant novel I teach, there is not one