The Contributers
- The Contributers
Carlos Gallego is Associate Professor of English at St. Olaf College. His research interests include Chicano/a studies, twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, philosophy and critical theory, and cultural studies. He has published in Biography, Aztlán, Cultural Critique and Western Humanities Review, as well as in The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein and The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic (forthcoming). He is the author of Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity: Between Recognition and Revolution (2011), and his current book project examines psychopathology in American popular culture.
R. Allen Baros is a Ph.D. candidate in literature and cultural studies at the University of Washington. His interests are queer and Chican@ identity, the politics of representation, and subjectivity studies in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and culture. He is currently researching nontraditional family formations as a means for transcending and disrupting identity categories linked to forms of political, cultural, and social oppression.
Marcial González is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses on Chicana/o literature, narrative theory, and Marxist literary theory. He is the author of Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification (2009). His current book project, Chicana/o Farm Worker Literature and the Building of an American Agricultural Empire, focuses on the centeredness of history and politics in literary narratives about Mexican American farm laborers from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Marcelle Maese-Cohen is Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. She is currently writing about representations of feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and developing her book manuscript tentatively entitled Confession and the Decolonial Literary Imagination.
Dale Pattison is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. His research focuses on political trauma, [End Page 169] spatial theory, and narrative in contemporary American literature. His work has appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature and MELUS, and his current book project investigates how urban models that emerged in the postwar years have worked to dissolve public/private boundaries, intensify social segregation, and situate institutional power within the practice of American city life.
Marissa López is Associate Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies and Associate Director of UCLA’s Chicana/o Studies Research Center. She is the author of Chicano Nations (2011), and her work has appeared in American Literary History, MELUS, Western American Literature, Journal of American Studies, and other leading journals. She is chair of the Modern Language Association’s Division Executive Committee on Chicana/o Literature and a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. [End Page 170]
