Contributors
- Contributors
C. Ondine Chavoya is an assistant professor of art at Williams College, where he teaches courses on contemporary art and visual culture. He is writing a monographic study on the art of Rubén Ortiz Torres and preparing his dissertation, Orphans of Modernism: Chicano Art, Public Representation, and Spatial Practice in Southern California (University of Rochester, 2001), for publication.
Mary K. Coffey is an assistant professor of art of the Americas in the Art History Department at Dartmouth College. She is currently completing a manuscript, Sanctuaries of the Patria, on the relationship between Mexican muralism and the development of Federal museums after the Revolution. She has published widely on cultural policy, public art, and the politics of museums. Her essays have been published in Cultural Studies, Art Journal, and edited volumes on Foucault and cultural studies, multicultural curriculums, and social realism. [End Page 311]
Patrick Dove is an assistant professor of Latin American literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has recently completed his book The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature, forthcoming with Bucknell University Press in 2004. One of his current projects focuses on how questions of justice and mourning are implicated in contemporary Southern Cone cultural production, including fiction, testimonio, and film, in the context of the “transitions” from dictatorship to democracy, and from state economy to market economy.
Esther Gabara is an assistant professor of Romance studies, and art and art history at Duke University, and works on the contact between literature and visual culture in the Americas. She has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, the Stanford Humanities Review, and the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled “The Ethos of Modernism: Photographic Aesthetics in Mexico and Brazil.”
Alicia Gaspar De Alba is an associate professor and founding faculty member of the César Chávez Center for Chicana/Chicano Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, and also the associate director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. She is the author of La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras Movidas (Arte Público, 2003); Sor Juana’s Second Dream: A Novel (University of New Mexico, 1999); Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition (University of Texas, 1998); The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories (Bilingual, 1993). She is also the editor of Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003). Her second novel, Desert Blood/The Juarez Murders, is forthcoming from Arte Público Press in 2005. She is a native of El Paso, Texas, and recently organized an international conference on “The Maquiladora Murders, or, Who Is Killing the Women of Juarez?” at UCLA, co-sponsored by Amnesty International.
Jacqueline Loss is an assistant professor of Latin American literature at the University of Connecticut. She is currently editing an anthology of [End Page 312] contemporary Cuban fiction and preparing a manuscript that reevaluates cosmopolitanisms, entitled “Against the Destiny of Place.” Her articles have appeared in Nepantla: Views from South, Latino and Latina Writers, Miradas, and Mandorla, among other publications.
Fred Moten teaches African American studies and film studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and two books of poetry: Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000) and, with Jim Behrle, Poems (Pressed Wafer Press, 2002). He is currently completing a manuscript on aesthetic and political criminality in black culture, also to be published by the University of Minnesota Press, called Stolen Life.
Andrea Noble is a senior lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham, U.K. She is author of Tina Modotti: Image Texture Photography (2000), and co-editor of Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative (2002), both published by the University of New Mexico Press.
Roberto Tejada is an assistant professor of art history, theory, and criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Manuel Álvarez Bravo: In Focus (Getty Publications, 2001), and Mexico/New York (Editorial RM/D...
