Professor & Chair English & Comparative Literature Arts and Letters 226c San Diego State University 5500 Campanile San Diego, California 92182-6020 619.594.1524 (phone) 619.594.4998 (fax) memo@sdsu.edu or litchair@mail.sdsu.edu Academic Postings English & Comparative Literature | Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) | The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts (MALAS) | Chicano/Chicana Studies (CCS) Teaching Portfolio The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog--a Tex[t]-Mex book supplement; direct book link, here; reviews and clippings here. "Brush With Fame" Archive NEW!  Mexican writer and an influential mentor, Carlos Fuentes, makes a cameo here and in San Diego. Illustrated Biography Hit this link and you will be instantly linked to a sprawling survey of a theory-besmattered, Mexican-American professor's academic odyssey—but beware! the site teems with photos, ephemera, sordid chisme, and much, much more of the headache-inducing eye-candy you already see on this page. Memogr@phics Designcasa™ An illustrated gallery of my book designs for SDSU Press & Hyperbole Books. Editorial Portfolios --Hyperbole Books  --San Diego State University Press Beware the Professor! libel, abuse, and an occasional, kind word from students @ ratemyprofessor The American Library Association's Choice Awards selects Tex[t]-Mex as one of 2007's 10 "Outstanding Academic Titles" in Film Studies--click "Oscar" for more. Tex[t]-Mex was "shortlisted" for the 2007-2008 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University. Congratulations to Marita Sturken, whose work received this new prize. Tex[t]-Mex has been nominated for the 2007 Modern Language Association Award (MLA)  for Latina/o Cultural Studies New Class this Fall--hit the blinking eye! RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES Saturday, April 26, 2008 April 28, 2008 CalState Northridge DIVA CONFERENCE! More INFO! May 5, 2008 CINCO DE MAYO MESA COLLEGE BEYOND BAROQUE with TOMÁS RILEY!!! More info! A screengrab from Orson Welles's Touch of Evil with Charlton Heston as "Mexican" narcotics agent Miguel 'Mike' Vargas ...a brief critical elegy--Jean Baudrillard, RIP More from the BRUSH WITH FAME archive!!! Sort of New Stuff! Cultural Studies | Queer Theory | TV JOURNALISTS WATCH SHERIFFS WATCH PEE-WEE WATCH  | 2004 (pdf file). Art Hist. | Latin Am. /Chicana/o Studies SEMI[ER]OTIC GLANCES | FRIDA KAHLO GILBERT HERNANDEZ | 2003 (pdf file) Ethnic American Theory | Film Theory RITA HAYWORTH, DERRIDA,  BORGES and EXISTENTIAL ELECTROLYSIS | 2003 (pdf file) RECENTLY REVIEWED!!! pdf version chicana/o studies scholarship border studies scholarship graphic narrative/semiotic scholarship ORSON WELLES AS A CHICANO CIRCA 1994 RE-MEMBERING LAREDO: TRUTH AT THE BORDER CIRCA 1995 ARTIF{R}ACTURE | COMIX | NARRATIVE CIRCA 1995 ESSAYS ESSAYS ESSAYS Hollywood | Ethnic Theory | Cultural Studies SPEEDY GONZALES | AUTOPSY OF A RAT : Latino Marionettes in US Mass Culture | CAMERA OBSCURA pdf | 1998 Critical Theory | Semiotics | Latin America CARLOS FUENTES / SKIP GATES / SYLVERE LOTRINGER / STUART EWEN | CIRCA 1990 | Review Article | note: huge jpg files American Lit | Latin American Lit BORGES & BORGES / DAITCH / DERRIDA-- MIRRORING FICTIONS | CIRCA 1993 | pdf  2.1mb file past speaking gigs Public Lectures Public Lectures Public Lectures UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA *click* the logo for a big image of the event! April 16, 2008! Skylight Books in Los Feliz en Los Angeles, Califas! Reading and signing November 7, 2007 Wednesday-- 7:30pm more info on the reading! USC, Los Angeles, CA, reading and signing November 8, 2007, Thursday. Laredo, Texas Gig! December 27. 2007 Sponsored by the International Bank of Commerce and hosted by Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Castillo, y Garza, Inc. Reading, lecture and signing Thursday November 1, 2007, 4-6pm UT AUSTIN, Austin, Texas Sponsored by UTPress, The Center for Mexican American Studies, The Department of English & the Cactus Cafe UTSA | Department of English Reading, lecture and signing | Monday, November 5, 2007, San Antonio, Texas Click here for the promo poster! Public Lecture Public Lecture Public Lecture CSUN TABOO CONFERENCE KEYNOTE APRIL 28, 2007 USD ENGLISH & ETHNIC STUDIES MAY 1, 2007 BORDERS BOOKSTORE MISSION VALLEY SIGNING MAY 17, 2007 Public Lecture Public Lecture Public Lecture THE VOYEUR'S BAD EYEGIENE: LATINA/O NATIONALITIES AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE PROSTHESIS NATIONALITY | CITIZENSHIP | IMMIGRATION AN AMERICAN STUDIES LECTURE SERIES PURDUE UNIVERSITY Friday February 16, 2007 WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGES: SCREENING LATINIDAD FILM SERIES OBERLIN COLLEGE March 15, 2007 DG Wills Bookstore La Jolla, CA Saturday March 24, 2007 BLOGS ART obscene machine blog ethnic mannequin tex[t]-mex blog WEBMASTER WORK WEBMASTER WORK MORE ONLINE ESSAYS/REVIEWS   London | Summer | 2007 London | Summer | 2005 SDSU Dept. of Engl & CompLit San Diego State University Press pacific REVIEW SDSU Press Gear SDSU LONDON CALLING Oliver Mayer's Joe Louis Blues Memogr@phics Designcasa CODICES CLAS Arts Conference SDSU MFA Program Fall 2001 SDSULondon CAFE LITERATI Literati boutique SDSU English & CompLit Alumni Page SDSU Medievalist Society 1st John Kennedy Toole Lecture The DECODER Club / e220 LIt BRUSH WITH CELEBRITY page COLGA / Whackjob Arts Portal SDSU Dept. of Chicana/o Studies HYPERBOLE Books (with Michael Buchmiller, senior memogr@phics designhaus agent)  English 220 | Summer 1999 huge pdf DIGITAL ART Camera Obscura Cover Gallery SDSU Press Book & Catalogue Cover Gallery Watch Pee-wee Watch | IJCS 2004 "Artif[r]acture: Virulent Pictures, Graphic Narrative, and the Ideology of the Visual" Mosaic (1996) [Sadistic] California Dreaming: Pleasure in the Breaking of Mexican Bodies 2003 Robert Frank, the Beats, Literature and Film 2001 Almost Like Laredo: A Semiotic Travelogue of "The Gateway to Mexico" 1987-2002 RE-membering Laredo: ¿What is Truth at the Border? 1995 Sick Culture: Reading Across the Disciplines With Carlos Fuentes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sylvère Lotringer and Stuart EwenSpring 50 1990 Autopsy of a Rat: Latina/o Marionettes in US Mass Cutlrure BOOK REVIEWS   Stuart Gordon CHICANO-CROSSDRESSES Ray Bradbury--a review of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, 2003 A sassy Richard Rodriguez DAYS OF OBLIGATION Review A gritty Charles Bukowski PULP review A perhaps too-scathing and cheeky Rodolfo Anaya JALAMANTA review REVIEW--Denise Chavez's FACE OF AN ANGEL REVIEW--Rolando Hinojosa's THE USELESS SERVANTS       archived course  syllabi English 493 Literature and Film The Obscene Machine Fall 2006 Introduction to Literature Seminar--The Seductive Hallucination-- featuring 500 (Five Hundred) amazing SDSU Undergraduates! and 8 equally stupendous graduate student GTAs!!! English 725 Seminar in Ethnic American Film and Literature: Ethnic Mannequins or the Obcene Machine