Our diligent Northern Mexican agents recently discovered that Nericcio, a recovering Catholic school boy from South Texas (seized 1st-grade snapshot to your left, Blessed Sacrament Elementary School shield on the right), received his Bachelor's of Arts degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin (1984), this while working part-time at The Texas Tavern and The Cactus Cafe as a barrista/bartender and prowling posh 6th Street cocktail lounges.

Now headquartered near the California/Mexico border with SDSU, he serves on the faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences (MALAS) and the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies in addition to his English and CompLit duties. A native son of Laredo, Texas, with assorted ancestors hailing from General Téran & Monterrey, Mexico, Partanna, Sicily, and (it is silently whispered) the merry ol' island of England, Nericcio tells anyone willing to listen that he is a post-Movimiento Chicano. In this vein, the testimony of well-placed former students is useful, with numerous depositions attesting to Nericcio overheard mumbling about his being a 'a Sicilian Tejano' and publicly ululating nostalgic nationalistic odes to Flaco Jimenez, La llorona, 'Tejas' and the Rio Grande river.  Other witnesses speak of overhearing his occasional rants on Sleestaks, The Get-Away Chase Game, Al Jaffee, Monty Python, Kurt Wiese, Captain Kangaroo, Mannix, The Banana Splits, Medical Center, Wacky Packages, La India María, Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, Land of the Lost, Dean Martin, Los Polivoces, Mil Mascaras, the late Edward Said, Gamera, and HR Pufnstuf in hidden Southern California bistros.

In 1996, Nericcio's "Artif[r]acture: Virulent Pictures, Graphic Narrative, and the Ideology of the Visual" appeared in Mosaic. In 1998, his illustrated exposé on Speedy Gonzales, "Autopsy of a Rat: Odd, Sundry Parables of Freddy Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing about Our First World Visual Emporium,"

was brought kicking and screaming into the world by Camera Obscura, A Journal of Feminism Culture and Media Studies--now distributed by Duke University Press.  2002 saw  the appearance of three publications: 1) a revised and expanded essay on Rita Hayworth, electrolysis, and the existential in Violence and the Body; 2) a gratuitously illustrated meditation on Gilbert Hernandez's illustrated biography of Frida Kahlo (detail opposite) in NYU Press's Latina/o Popular Culture; and 3) a short rant on anti-undocumented worker violence, the Marquis de Sade and California law enforcement for BAD SUBJECTS, UC Berkeley's HOT Lefty rag.

revelation about transvestites, Medical Center, and Robert Reed, the pater familias on the Brady Bunch. Also finally making its appearance in 2007 is an edited collection of photography, theory and art called Bordered Sexualities for Hyperbole Books/SDSU Press. Other not-so-recent and recent scholarly gigs include Nericcio's London lecture, "In the Storm of the Eye: Pages Torn From a Voyeur Semiotician's Diary During the Plague of Bad Theory"(1998), for Goldsmith College and the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) and "Cinematography, Photography and Literature: Robert Frank's Aesthetic Triptych" (2000) for the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego. Nericcio's also has lectured abroad at the Freud Museum in London where he spoke on the 'fertile' connection between Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic work and the Viennese wizard's collection of erotic antiquities--this took place during a Fall 2001 Semester in London where Nericcio worked as a Visiting Senior Lecturer in Literature for the Foundation for Interational Education and SDSU (note the surveillance photo to your right, that's him with the strange expression standing by Freud's infamous couch). Apparently the Freud Museum guards failed to inform London authorities of various improprieties with Herr Sigmund's couch as in San Diego, Spring 2002, this candid shot was taken of Nericcio ranting about Nietzsche at a pacific REVIEW public reading. 2003 opened with Nericcio joining the editorial advisory board of GOBSHITE QUARTERLY an independent international literary magazine. 

In Summer 2004 Nericcio, taking a break from the vagaries of the University Lecture Hall, traded chalk for pine tar as he played utility outfielder for the league-leading National City Dukes in the San Diego Adult Baseball League.  Fall 2004 he started up with his Sinematic Bodies: Intro to Lit and Film circus (which featured, among other things, a mad dash across campus by mimes (chapeau Antonioni) and started overseeing the production of cultural studies tomes with Harry Polkinhorn for Hyperbole Books--touted by the one and only, notorious and untoward Playboy Magazine (scroll down to the SDSU-link on the left hand side). Spring 2005 saw the startup of his Freud's Bastard Children class and the Literature After Derrida lecture series.

Indulgent visitors to this page waiting for hell to freeze-over can peek at online syllabi from Nericcio's courses (click on the images below) or sample this alternative index of WWWeb-based shenanigans where many of his essays are available in Adobe's ubiquitous pdf format. Also available are two illustrated fragments from his theoretical memoir on the US/Mexico border: "REMEMBER" & "CHISME";book reviews of Charles Bukowski's finale Pulp, Rudolfo Anaya's new age weeper Jalamanta, and Richard Rodriguez's bizarre smash bestseller Days of Obligation (these pieces originally appeared in World Literature Today);an illustrated transcript of Nericcio's MOPA introduction to Robert Frank's, Alfred Leslie's, Jack Kerouac's and Allen Ginsberg's Pull My Daisy (popthe Kerouac balloon floating to your right); and lastly, a scathing send-up of Ray Bradbury's, Edward James Olmos's and Disney's cine-chimera, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit--lick the tasty yellow helado/popsicle opposite.

Lastly (for the poor, misbegotten soul who has scrollled this far down the page!), do please click on the picture here to your right to view the birth of Nericcio's efforts as a Ford Focus Spanish-language voiceover star and would-be commercial actor.  Or, alternatively, click this link to see a newspaper story for which Nericcio SWEARS he did not pay or another yellow press wonder that documents the trials and tribulations of teaching 500 student classes at SDSU.

1. There is some archival evidence of a personal connection to Welles; The Library of Congress has graciously allowed us to repost a facsimile of this Los Angeles Herald-Tribune fragment; the photographer is unknown.  L of C forensic photographic specialists date the piece to around 1967.