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Position Title
Professor
- Spanish
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:
Mexican Masculinities [http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/mexican-masculinities] |
Bandits, Captives, Heroines and Saints [http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/bandits-captives-heroines-and-saints] |
Hispanisms and Homosexualities http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=2323&viewby=... |
The Famous 41 |
Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos [http://www.sigloxxieditores.com.mx/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPat... |
Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies |
Los cuarenta y uno [http://www.literatura.unam.mx//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id... |
El cine mexicano se impone [http://www.literatura.unam.mx//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id... |
Selected Journal Articles:
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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]
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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]
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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...
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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]
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2005: “The Legend of Lola Casanova: On the Borders of Border Studies” in Aztlán [http://aztlanjournal.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=pa...
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2004: “’Las Inseparables’ y la prehistoria del lesbianismo mexicano” in Debate Feminista [http://www.debatefeminista.com/PDF/Articulos/lasins928.pdf]
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2004: “¿Qué Hacen los Nuevos Americanistas? Collaborative Strategies for a Postnationalist American Studies” in Comparative American Studies
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2003: “Ramona and Postnationalist American Studies: On ‘Our America’ and the Mexican Borderlands” in American Quarterly [http://www.jstor.org/stable/30041996]
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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]
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2002: “El centenario de los 41” in Revista de Crítica Cultural (Chile)
Selected Book Chapters:
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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)
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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)
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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]
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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]
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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