Education and Degree(s):

• Ph.D., New York University

Research Interest(s):

• Mexican and Latin American Cultural Studies
• Border Studies/Latino Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Mexican Golden Age Cinema
• Sports Media Studies
• Digital Storytelling, Community Based Scholarship

Course(s) Taught:

• SPA 170: Introduction to Latin American Culture
• SPA 171: Music from Latin America
• SPA 172: Mexican Cultural Studies
• SPA 173: Cinema and Latin American Culture
• SPA 175: Sports in Latin America
• SPA 177: California and Latin America
• SPA 230: Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies
• CST 200B: Histories of Cultural Studies
• CST 295: Special Topics in Cultural Studies

Selected Publications:

Selected Books:

Selected Journal Articles:

• 2010: “Mexican Golden Age Cinema in Tito’s Yugoslavia” in The Global South [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_global_south/v004/4.1.irwin.html]

• 2009: “Los estudios culturales en programas de postgrado en América Latina: propuestas pedagógicas y metodológicas” in Tábula Rasa (with Mónica Szurmuk) [http://www.revistatabularasa.org/numero_diez/02szurmuk.pdf]

• 2009: “Cultural Studies and the Field of ‘Spanish’ in the US Academy” (with Mónica Szurmuk) in A Contracorriente [http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/spring_09/docs/Irwin_and_Sz...

• 2008: “The American Renaissance and the Mexican Renacimiento: The Long Critical Disconnect in the Americas” in Centennial Review [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_centennial_review/v008/8.1.irwin.html]

• 2005: “The Legend of Lola Casanova: On the Borders of Border Studies” in Aztlán [http://aztlanjournal.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=pa...

• 2004: “’Las Inseparables’ y la prehistoria del lesbianismo mexicano” in Debate Feminista [http://www.debatefeminista.com/PDF/Articulos/lasins928.pdf]

• 2004: “¿Qué Hacen los Nuevos Americanistas? Collaborative Strategies for a Postnationalist American Studies” in Comparative American Studies

• 2003: “Ramona and Postnationalist American Studies: On ‘Our America’ and the Mexican Borderlands” in American Quarterly [http://www.jstor.org/stable/30041996]

• 2001: “Toward a Border Gnosis of the Borderlands: Joaquín Murrieta and Nineteenth-Century US-Mexico Border Culture” in Nepantla [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nep/v002/2.3irwin.html]

• 2002: “El centenario de los 41” in Revista de Crítica Cultural (Chile)

Selected Book Chapters:

• 2012: “Centenary of Mexican Homophobia: The Mexican Revolution and the Famous 41” in Charles Faulhaber, ed. 1810-1910-2010: Mexico’s Unfinished Revolutions (Bancroft Library/University of California Press)

• 2010: “Homoerotismo y nación latinoamericana: unos patrones del México decimonónico” in Ana Peluffo and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Eds., Entre hombres: masculinidades del siglo XIX en América Latina (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana)

• 2009: “Memín Pinguín: Líos Gordos con los Gringos” in Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Poblete, Eds., Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics (Palgrave Macmillan) [http://us.macmillan.com/redrawingthenation/H%C3%A9ctorFern%C3%A1ndezLHoeste]

• 2009: “Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona: A Transnational Reading of the Old West” in Reginald Dyck, Cheli Reutter, Eds., Crisscrossing the Borders of Western Literary Studies (Palgrave Macmillan) [http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230619548]

• 2007: “Memín Pinguín, Rumba and Racism: Afro Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film” in Hemisphere and Nation: American Literary and Cultural Geographies, Caroline Levander, Robert Levine, Eds., Rutgers University Press [http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/hemispheric_american_studies.html]

Current Projects:

• Book project on the reception and impact of Mexican Golden Age Cinema in international markets, with Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Toluca
• Book project on sports and nationalism in Latin America, with Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, George Tech University and Juan Poblete, UC Santa Cruz
• Collaborative community based digital storytelling project, Powerful Stories on sexually heterodox agricultural workers of California's Central Valley
  • in collaboration with California Rural Legal Assistance
  • funding from Cal Humanities, California Stories Fellowship
  • funding from UC California Studies Consortium, Community and Teaching Grant
  • fundign from UC-MEXUS, Small Grant