Paula M. L. Moya

Stanford University

C.V.

Education

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Ph.D. in English in 1998 
  • University of Houston, Houston, TX; B.A. in English in 1991. Graduated summa cum laude with University Honors and Honors in Major
  • Yale University, New Haven, CT

Teaching Positions

  • Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities
  • Professor, Department of English and, by courtesy, of the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, 2015
  • Associate Professor, Department of English and, by courtesy, of the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, 2002
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English and by courtesy, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, 1996

Administrative Positions

  • Director, Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, from 2016-2019
  • Director, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, from 2011-2015
  • Vice-Chair, Department of English, Stanford University, from 2005-2008
  • Director, Undergraduate Program, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, from 2002-2005
  • Chair, Major in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, from 2002-2005

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

  • Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, 2017-2022
  • Stanford Leadership Academy Fellow, 2017-2018
  • Beyond Bias Clayman Institute Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2016-2017
  • RICSRE Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2015-2016
  • Clayman Institute Fellow, Stanford University, 2012-2013
  • Stanford Fellow, 2003-2005
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 2003-2005
  • Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2000-2001
  • Brown Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2000-2001
  • CCSRE Junior Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 1999-2000
  • Outstanding Chicana/o Faculty Member, Stanford University, 1997-1998
  • Dissertation Completion Project Fellowship, Tomás Rivera Center, Summer 1995
  • Women’s Studies Program Fellowship, Cornell University, Summer 1995
  • Chicana/Latina Summer Research Institute Fellowship, UC-Davis, Summer 1995
  • Graduate School Minority Student Fellowship, Cornell University, 1994-1996
  • Gertrude Spencer Teaching Prize, Cornell University, 1993
  • Faulkenau Fellowship for University Service, Cornell University, 1993
  • J. Saunders Redding Fellowship, Cornell University, 1991-1993
  • Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship, University of Houston, 1991
  • Khristen Shepler Memorial Scholarship, University of Houston, 1990-1991
  • Honors Program Scholarship, University of Houston, 1989-1991
  • National Merit Scholarship, 1980

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes
Journal Articles
  • “Learning to Read Race: Multicultural Literature can Foster Racial Literacy and Empower Students,” co-authored with MarYam Hamedani, California English 22.4 (2017): 10-13. Issue selected by NCTE Affiliate Journal Award Program as model of “outstanding affiliate journal.”
  • “Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral?” Boston Review. 24 Feb 2014. Reprinted in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, 1 (2015).
  • “Who We Are and From Where We Speak,” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 1.2 (2012): 79-94.
  • Junot Díaz interview. “The Search for Decolonial Love, Parts I & II.” Boston Review. 26-27 Jun 2012. Named as one of 10 “Best of 2012.” Republished Salon.com. 2 July 2012. Web. 20 Aug 2013. Reprint in Junot Diaz and the Decolonial Imagination (Duke UP 2015).
  • “With Us or Without Us: The Development of a Latino Public Sphere,” Nepantla: Views from South, 4.2 (2003): 245-52.
  • “Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary,” co-authored with Ramón Saldívar, Modern Fiction Studies, 49.1 (2003): 1-18.
  • “Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26.2 (2001): 441-83. Reprinted in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, 2nd, eds. Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim, New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • “Why I Am Not Hispanic: An Argument with Jorge Gracia.” The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, 01.1 (2001): 100-05.
Chapters in Books
  • “‘Against the sorrowful and infinite solitude’: Environmental Consciousness and Streetwalker Theorizing in Helena María Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them.” In Latinx Literary Environmentalisms: Justice, Place, and the Decolonial, Sarah Jaquette Ray, David J. Vázquez, Sarah D. Wald and Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, forthcoming.
  • “‘Remaking Human Being’: Loving, Kaleidoscopic Consciousness in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them.” In Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, eds. Andrea J. Pitts, Mariana Ortega, and José M. Medina, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • “Afterword.” In Speaking Face to Face / Hablando Cara a Cara: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones, eds. Pedro DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan, New York, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming.
  • “Resisting the Interpretive Schema of the Novel Form: Rereading Sandra Cisneros’s the House on Mango Street.” In Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in 21StCentury Chicana/o Literary Criticism, William Orchard and Yolanda Padilla., 2016.
  • “Dismantling the Master’s House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz,” In Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination, eds. José David Saldívar, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and Monica Hanna, Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2015.
  • “Teaching the Fiction of Helena Maria Viramontes: A Snapshot.” In Latina/o Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching, ed. Frederick Luis Aldama, New York: Routledge, 2015.
  • “Racism is Not Intellectual: Interracial Friendship, Multicultural Literature and Decolonizing Epistemologies.” In Decolonizing Epistemologies, eds. Ada María Isasi-Díaz and Eduardo Mendieta, New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
  • “Educating for a Diverse Society in ‘Post-Race’ America.” In Education and the USA, ed. Laurenz Volkmann, Heidelberg: Winter Publishers, 2011.
  • “Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil is Gay: Response to Ernesto Martínez,” Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, eds. Michael R. Hames-García and Ernesto Martínez, Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011.
  • “Another Way to Be: Women of Color, Literature, and Myth.” In Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century.
  • “Doing Race: An Introduction,” co-authored with Hazel Rose Markus. In Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century.
  • “Postethnic America? A Multicultural Training Camp for Americanists and Future EFL Teachers,” co-authored with Barbara Buchenau, Carola Hecke, and J. Nicole Shelton. In Identity in Education, eds. Susan Sanchez-Casal and Amie Macdonald, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • “What’s Identity Got to do With It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom,” Identity Politics Reconsidered, eds. Linda Martín Alcoff, Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. Reprinted in Identity in Education, eds. Susan Sánchez-Casal and Amie Macdonald, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
  • “Introduction: Reclaiming Identity,” Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism, eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael Hames-García, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 1-26. Reprinted in Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice, 3.2 (2001): 32 pars. 30 May 2001 Retrieved from: http://eserver.org/clogic/3-1%262/moya.html
  • “Cultural Particularity vs. Universal Humanity: The Value of Being Asimilao,” Hispanics/Latinos in the US: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights, eds. Jorge Gracia and Pablo DeGreiff, New York: Routledge, 2000. 77-97.
  • “Postmodernism, ‘Realism,’ and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism,” Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, eds. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, New York: Routledge, 1997. 125-50, 379-84. Partially reprinted under the title “Chicana Identity,” The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader. 2nd ed. Eds. Gail M. Presbey, Karsten J. Struhl and Richard E. Olsen. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999. 576-580.
Ongoing Research Studies
  • IRB study: “Studies of Literature and Intergroup Relations.” Collaboration based in part on my research in The Social Imperative with Takuya Sawaoka (Psychology) and David McClure (English).
Online Forum, Blog Posts
  • “A Story in Two Parts, With An Ending Yet to Be Written,” On the Human: A Project of the National Humanities Center, May 2, 2011. An online community of humanists and scientists dedicated to improving our understanding of persons and the quasi-persons who surround us. Blog posted on May 2, 2011. Final reply posted August 8, 2011.
  • Blog at Arcade: Literature, the Humanities, and the World
    • “The Spin,” November 23, 2011. http://arcade.stanford.edu/spin
    • “But What Does it Mean?: The Challenge of Culturomics,” December 17, 2010. http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-does-it-mean-challenge-of-culturonomics
    • “Harry Reid’s Remarks About Race, or Much Ado About Nothing,” http://arcade.stanford.edu/harry-reids-remarks-about-race-or-much-ado-about-nothing
    • “Thinking About Race, Redux,” September 28, 2009. http://arcade.stanford.edu/thinking-about-race-redux
Reviews, Review Essays, Conference Proceedings

Invited lectures and Presentations

  • “Critical Dystopias: Cultivating Virtue in the Literature Classroom,” invited speaker at Cultivating Virtue in the University, University of Oxford, May 25, 2017.
  • “Not a Novel: Reading The House on Mango Street as a Prose Poem Cycle,” invited speaker at symposium on The Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros, Texas State University, April 29, 2017.
  • “Not a Novel: Reading The House on Mango Street as a Prose Poem Cycle,” invited speaker at Comparative Americas Colloquium, Oakland University, March 22, 2017.
  • “Storytelling for a Successful Academic Career,” workshop presentation at “Women of Color in the Academy—Staying Fit: Mind, Body, and Soul” conference, Stanford University, March 11, 2017.
  • “Decolonizing Our Minds” (with Hazel Markus), Beyond Bias Fellows Forum, Stanford University, February 15, 2017.
  • “Both Sides of the Border: What the Election Means for Latinos/as and Latin Americans,” participant on panel hosted by Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, November 28, 2016.
  • “Developing Racial Literacy in a Post-Obama World,” Lecture sponsored by Distinguished Career Institute, Stanford University, October 12, 2016.
  • “Developing Racial Literacy in a Post-Obama World,” Lecture hosted by the Latina/o Studies Working Group and Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University, September 20, 2016.
  • “Reading Race: Schemas, Racial Perception, and the Power of Literature,” Lecture organized by the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 12, 2016.
  • “Reading Race: Schemas, Racial Perception, and the Power of Literature,” Public lecture sponsored by the Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence, Italy, April 13, 2016.
  • “The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism,” Faculty Fellow Chautauqua, Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, March 10, 2016.
  • Lunch Talk on The Social Imperative hosted by the American Studies Program, University of Duisberg-Essen, May 21, 2015.
  • “Against the Sorrowful and Infinite Solitude: Interdependence and Narrative Webs in Decolonial Literature,” Ernst Fraenkel Lecture, JFK Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, May 19, 2015.
  • “Reading Race: From Ferguson, Missouri to Morrison’s A Mercy and Back Again,” Public Lecture sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Law, and Society, Sonoma State University, February 11, 2015.
  • “Reading Race: From Ferguson, Missouri to Morrison’s A Mercy and Back Again,” RICSRE Faculty Seminar Series, Stanford University, January 15, 2015.
  • “Racial Realisms, or When Do We Describe, and When Do We ‘Do Race’?” Genomics and the Philosophy of Race, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 12, 2014.
  • “From There to Here: Musings on Method, April 2014,” Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April 11, 2014.
  • “Literature, Morality, and the Ethical Relationship of Selves to Others,” Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral? 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University, February 6, 2014.
  • “‘Not One and the Same Thing’: The Dialogic Potential of Multicultural Literature,” The Latina Dialogues: A Conference on Latina Feminism and Other Feminisms, Vanderbilt Philosophy Department, Nashville, TN, November 15, 2013.
  • “Looking Back to Look Forward: Transformational Schemas in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,” Lecture sponsored by MITWS, Department of English, and Latino Studies, Cornell University, September 18, 2013.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity,” Public lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Ithaca College, September 17, 2013.
  • “Identities: What They Are and Why They Matter,” Amplitude II, Artist-Scholar panel held in conjunction with the Migrating Identities art exhibit, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, August 16, 2013.
  • “Looking Back to Look Forward: America’s Forgotten Racial History And the Challenges of Multicultural America,” New Horizons: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America, JFK Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, June 28, 2013.
  • “Vectors, Schemas, and Percepts in the Practice of Close Reading,” LASER Lecture Series, The Ohio State University, March 5, 2013.
  • “Bearing Witness to Ourselves: The Literary Legacy of Women of Color,” At the Intersections: Race, Gender, Power and Belonging, Public event sponsored by Clayman Institute, CCSRE, and Feminist Majority Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 12, 2012.
  • “Dismantling the Master’s House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Junot Diaz and Audre Lorde,” Post45 Conference, Stanford University, November 10, 2012.
  • “The Rhetoric of Contempt,” Language and Politics: The Discourse of Power, Public event sponsored by LitQuake, San Francisco, CA, October 9, 2012.
  • “Dismantling the Master’s House: Junot Díaz’s Decolonial Literary Imagination,” The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 22, 2012
  • “Dismantling the Master’s House: The Decolonial Imaginary of Junot Díaz,” Junot Díaz Symposium, Stanford University, May 19, 2012.
  • “8 Conversations about Race,” Public lecture sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Faculty Staff Association, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, April 27, 2012.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity,” Public lecture sponsored by the Days Massolo Center, Hamilton College, November 10, 2011.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity,” Public lecture sponsored by the Department of English, Reed College, September 20, 2011.
  • “Race and Narrative in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Symposium sponsored by the Department of English, Reed College, September 19, 2011.
  • “The Global Impact of Latin American Literature: Influence on Latina/o Writers,” Symposium sponsored by Cultural Synchronization and Disjuncture Working Group, Stanford University, April 29, 2011.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity,” Public lecture sponsored by the Department of English, University of San Francisco, March 28, 2011.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Subjugated Histories, Decolonizing Practices, a Future of Minority Studies conference, College of William and Mary, February 26, 2011.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Center on Race & Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh, February 23, 2011.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Student Affairs Forum, Stanford University, November 16, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Casa Zapata, Residential Education, Stanford University, October 27, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Extraordinary Women, Conference Sponsored by Stanford’s Women’s Center, Stanford University, October 25, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar, School of Education, Stanford University, October 4, 2010. http://edpolicy.stanford.edu/pages/events/brownbag/brownbag_moya-markus.html
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, September 17, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Gottesman Library Book Talk, Teachers College, Columbia University, September 16, 2010. http://gottesman.pressible.org/govan/doing-race
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Group, Cornell University, September 15, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity” (with Hazel Markus), Democratizing Knowledge Project, Syracuse University, September 14, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations about Race,” Wednesday Evening Program at Esalen Institute (with Hazel Markus),Big Sur, CA, August 18, 2010.
  • “The House that Sandra Built,”The Future of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, June 25, 2010.
  • “Doing Race in the 21st Century: 8 Conversations,”Transformations: Theorizing Race and Class in the 21st Century, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Frieburg, Germany, June 18, 2010.
  • “The House that Sandra Built,”On Genre, a colloquium sponsored by the English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland, June 15, 2010
  • “Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century” (with Hazel Markus), CCSRE Faculty Seminar Series, Stanford University, February 21, 2010.
  • “Race as a Kind of Difference,” Exploring Race and Difference at Emory: Mapping Current Research and Charting Future Directions, Emory University, October 2, 2009.
  • “Doing Race in the Age of Obama,” Public lecture sponsored by the Departments of English and Philosophy, University of Miami at Ohio, September 15, 2009.
  • “Eight Conversations about Race and Ethnicity,” Race Discourses in the 21st Century, Panel debate sponsored by University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, June 18, 2009.
  • “The Time of the Possible Self in Helena Maria Viramontes’s ‘The Moths,’” public lecture sponsored by the program in American Studies, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, June 17, 2009.
  • “Doing Race in the Era of Obama,” E.B. DuBois Lecture Series, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 8, 2009.
  • “Educating for a Diverse Society in ‘Post-Race’ America,” Keynote lecture, Education and the USA, German Association of American Studies (GAAS), University of Jena, Jena, German, June 5, 2009.
  • “Stories That Survive: Exploring the Role of Myth in Literature,” Leading Matters, Los Angeles, January 24, 2009.
  • “Humanists Decolonizing Epistemology,” Decolonizing Epistemology: New Knowing in Latina/o Philosophy and Theology, Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium VIII, November 21, 2008.
  • “The Dialogic Potential of Multicultural Literature, Keynote Speaker and Invited Mentor for Postethnicity? – Identity Politics Reconsidered: North American Theories and Literary Practices In and Outside of German Multicultural Classrooms conference, University of Goettingen, Germany, July 17, 2007.
  • “Doing Race,” Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics Speaker Series, UCLA, April 26, 2007.
  • “Identity and Knowledge in the Literary Imagination: The Temporality of the Possible Self in Helena Maria Viramontes’s ‘The Moths,’” The Barbara and Carlisle Moore Speaker Series, University of Oregon, May 22, 2006.
  • “Mobilizing Identities in the Classroom,” symposium on Identity Politics Reconsidered, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, April 20, 2006.
  • “Identity and Knowledge in the Literary Imagination,” Symposium on Identity, Knowledge, and Social Justice sponsored by FMS at Syracuse University, Friday, March 31, 2006.
  • “Putting the ‘Lone Genius’ to Rest: Producing Collaborative Knowledge Through Humanities Research Networks,” Technology, Cognition, and Culture lecture series, Rice University, October 27, 2005.
  • “Who We Are and From Where We Speak,” Mapping the Decolonial Turn conference, UC Berkeley, April 23, 2005.
  • “Emotional Rationality: Interracial Friendship and Anti-Racist Moral Growth,” Women’s History Lecture Series, Sarah Lawrence College, April 14, 2005.
  • “Minor Characters in the Minoritarian Imagination,” Minority Identities/Minor Characters: Literature, Politics, Theory panel event, Binghamton University, October 15, 2004.
  • “What’s Identity Got to Do With It? Interrogating the Politics of Knowledge in the Multicultural Classroom,” The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Pedagogy, William Paterson University, April 2, 2004.
  • “What’s Identity Got to Do With It? Interrogating the Politics of Knowledge in the Multicultural Classroom,” Engaging the Culture of Power In and Out of the Classroom Practical Pedagogy Colloquium Series, University of Washington, March 4, 2004.
  • “Success is Counted Sweetest,” Banquet speech, Phi Kappa Phi induction, University of Houston, March 23, 2003.
  • “Multiculturalism Beyond Postmodernism,” Plenary speech, Beyond: New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching conference, Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), Brussels, Belgium, November 29, 2002.
  • “Globalizing Minority Studies,” Gender and Globalization conference, Stanford University, May 24, 2002.
  • “The Teacherly Text: Complete Literary in Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running, Rebellious Reading conference, University of California Santa Barbara, May 18, 2002.
  • “Globalizing Minority Studies: The Persistence of Identity in Contemporary Literary Theory,” Keynote speech, Migrations, Translations, and Identity-Formations in an Age of Transnationality conference, Rice University, February 23, 2002.
  • “Latina/o Identity,” The Color of Hegemony: Latinos/as in the U.S. & North Carolina conference, Duke University, February 9, 2002.
  • “Reading as a Realist,” Dialogical Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism working group, Duke University, February 8, 2002.
  • “Reading as a Realist,” and “The Teacherly Text: Complete Literacy in Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running,” Realism and Its Discontents, Graduate Summer School of Literature and Literary Theory, Karlskrona, Sweden, June 12 & 14, 2001.
  • “Familia: Myths and Realities,” Chicana Plenary speech, 28th Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Tucson, Arizona, April 6, 2001.
  • “What is Identity and Why is it Important?” Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics? Progressive Politics, Minority Identities colloquium, Hamilton College, November 16, 2000.
  • “Chicana Literary Criticism,” public lecture sponsored by the departments of English and Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, April 22, 1999.
  • “Realist Proposals for Multicultural Education,” Writers at the Border conference, Rutgers University, April 16, 1999.
  • “The Latina/oization of Chicano Studies,” The Routes of Culture: Chicana/o Arts in an Age of Displacements, Institute on Culture and Migration, University of California at Santa Barbara, November 7, 1998.
  • “Cultural Particularity vs. Universal Humanity: The Value of Being asimilao,” Ethnic Identity, Culture and Group Rights: The Case of Hispanics/Latinos interdisciplinary symposia, University at Buffalo, October 3, 1998.
  • “Breaking Silences/Speaking Out,” Black and Latino Action Coalition conference, Syracuse University, February 15, 1998.
  • “A Symphony of Anger: Notes Toward a Transformation of Feminist Politics,” keynote speech, Narrating Our Own Stories: Women Claim Their Voice(s) conference, SUNY Oneonta, April 21, 1995.
  • “The Identity Crisis in the ‘Hispanic American/Latino’ Studies Program at Cornell University,” Joint Ethnic Studies Colloquium Series, Cornell University, February 20, 1995.
  • “The Case for US Latina/o Literature,” public lecture sponsored by the Latino Educational Coalition, Ithaca College, April 14, 1994.

Conference Papers and Presentations

  • “Realignments of Ethnic Literatures with the English Major Today,” Panel sponsored by the MLA at MELUS 2017 Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 27, 2017.
  • “The Penetrable Body: Precarity in the Work of Manuel Muñoz,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, November 13, 2015.
  • “Resisting the Perceptual Schema of the Novel Form: Rereading Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street,” 129th MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 11, 2014.
  • “Dismantling the Master’s House: The Decolonial Imaginary of Junot Díaz,” Decolonizing Future Intellectual Legacies and Activist Practices, CESA Conference, September 20, 2013.
  • “The Social Imperative,” Recent Trends in North American Studies: A Research Colloquium, University of Duisburg-Essen, June 25, 2013.
  • “Vectors, Schemas, and Percepts in the Practice of Close Reading,” Interdisciplinary Critical Theory Working Group, Stanford University, April 4, 2013.
  • “Dismantling the Master’s House: Junot Díaz’s Decolonial Literary Imagination,” Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures Conference, John Jay College, March 8, 2013.
  • “Vectors, Schemas, and Percepts in the Practice of Close Reading,” Clayman Institute Fellows Forum, Stanford University, January 17, 2013.
  • “Vectors, Schemas, and Percepts in the Practice of Close Reading,” 128th MLA Annual Convention, Boston, MA, January 5, 2013.
  • “Why Latina/o? Why Academy?” The Color of the Economic Crisis, Latcrit XV Symposium, Denver Colorado, October 9, 2010.
  • Author-critic discussion with author Helena Maria Viramontes, English Department, Stanford University, May 27, 2010.
  • “8 Conversations About Race and Ethnicity,” public lecture (with Hazel Markus) sponsored by theCenter for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Stanford University, May 26, 2010.
  • “The House that Sandra Built,”Chicano Narrative Now: Chicana/o Literary Discourses in an Age of Transnationalism seminar, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), New Orleans, LA, April 4, 2010.
  • “The Time of the Possible Self in Helena Maria Viramontes’s ‘The Moths,’” Race and Narrative Theory, Center for the Study of the Novel (CSN), Stanford University, April 11, 2008.
  • “Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil is Gay,” 35th Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Austin, Texas, March 22, 2008.
  • “Theory from the Periphery: Minority Struggles for Social Justice,” 33rd Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Guadalajara, Mexico, June 30, 2006.
  • “The ‘I’ that is ‘We’ and the ‘We’ that is ‘I’: The Necessity of Intellectual Collaboration in Identity-Based Scholarship,” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Oakland, California, June 17, 2006.
  • “What’s Identity Got to Do With It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom,” Conceptualizing the Realist Classroom, a conference sponsored by The Future of Minority Studies project (FMS), Ithaca, New York, June 26, 2004.
  • “‘Am I That Name?’ Minority Identity and the Construct of the ‘American,’” 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Boston, Massachusetts, November 9, 2003.
  • “‘Racism is not intellectual’: The Epistemic Significance of Interracial Friendship,” Reading Identity: Literature, Pedagogy, and Social Thought, a conference in the Future of Minority Studies project, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 11, 2003.
  • “Emotion and Rationalism,” Redefining Identity Politics—Internationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism, a conference in the Future of Minority Studies project, University of Michigan, October 18, 2003.
  • Panel Organizer, Chair, and Respondent, “Future of Minority Studies: Redefining Identity Politics,” Modern Languages Association (MLA) conference,” New Orleans, Louisiana, December 28, 2001.
  • Panel Chair, “Who Are Our Own People?” Future of Minority Studies: Redefining Identity Politics conference, Cornell University, November 17, 2001.
  • “Response to Juan Flores’s ‘Reclaiming Left Baggage,’” The Future of Minority Studies: Redefining Identity Politics project, Binghamton University, SUNY, September 8, 2001.
  • “The Three R’s of Complete Literacy in Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running,” 28th Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Tucson, Arizona, April 6, 2001.
  • “Reading for Interdependence in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) conference, Phoenix, Arizona, May 27, 2000.
  • “Embodied Knowledge in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus,” 27th Annual Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Portland, Oregon, March 25, 2000.
  • “The Epistemic Significance of Minority Perspectives,” 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), University of Oregon at Eugene, October 7, 1999.
  • “Staging Motherhood/Producing Familia in Cherríe Moraga’s Waiting in the Wings,” 26th Annual Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), San Antonio, Texas, May 1, 1999.
  • “Realist Proposals for Multicultural Education,” American Studies Association conference, Seattle, Washington, November 20, 1998.
  • “The Influence of Postmodernist Theory on Chicana Feminism,” Latina/o Studies Colloquium, Stanford University, May 11, 1998.
  • “Strategic Essentialism: A ‘strategy for our times’? or Richard Rodriguez and the Question of Representation,” Faculty Seminar on Feminist Studies, Stanford University, April 9, 1998.
  • “Strategic Essentialism: A ‘strategy for our times’?” Hispanics: Cultural Locations conference, University of San Francisco, October 12, 1997.
  • “Realist Reconstructions of Chicana/ Identity: Toward an Anti-Essentialist Justification of Identity Politics,” 24th Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Sacramento, California, April 17, 1997.
  • “Postmodernism, ‘Realism,’ and the Politics of Identity,” RISCRE Faculty Seminar Series, Stanford University, March 13, 1997.
  • “‘Strategic Essentialism’ and The Paradox of Representation in the Work of Richard Rodríguez,” 23rd Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 1996.
  • “Politics of the Chicana Subject,” El Frente: U. S. Latinas Under Attack and Fighting Back conference, Cornell University, October 14, 1995.
  • “Figuring the ‘Other Woman’: The Cultural Politics of Infidelity in the Work of Sandra Cisneros,” 22nd Annual Conference of the National Association of Chicano Studies (NACS), Spokane, Washington, March 31, 1995.
  • “People, listen to what your jotería is telling you: Queer Epistemology in the Work of Cherríe Moraga,” Constructing Queer Cultures conference, Cornell University, February 12, 1995.
  • “The End of Nostalgia: The Feminist Critique of Black Cultural Nationalism in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby,” At Loose Ends conference, Cornell University, April 29, 1994.
  • “Language and Liberation in Rosario Castellanos’ Oficio de Tinieblas o ‘¿Quién preparó a los zapatistas?’” Entralogos conference, Cornell University, February 19, 1994.
  • “Memory, Desire, and Self-Integration in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 25, 1993.
  • “Identity Formation of Hispanics in Santa Fe: The Myth of Spanish New Mexico,” Entralogos conference, Cornell University, February 22, 1992.

Grants

  • DIIF Grant for “Learning to Read Race,” $16,000. June 2017.
  • Collaborative Teaching Project, $4,000. September 2016.
  • Provost’s Fund Grant for CCSRE Project “RaceWorks,” $288,000. July 2016.
  • ArtsCatalyst Grant, $1,500. January 2014.
  • VPUE Curriculum Development Grant, $7,500. March 2013.

Professional Activities

  • Co-organizer (with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Hannah Walser, and J.D. Porter) of CCSRE/Stanford Literary Lab conference “Mining for Ethnicity,” Stanford University, May 19, 2017.
  • Editorial Board member, American Literature, 2014-2017
  • Editorial Board Member, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2014-2019.
  • Editorial Board Member, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2013-present.
  • Elected Delegate, Twentieth Century American Literature Discussion Group, Modern Languages Association, 2011-2016.
  • Series Co-Editor, Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University Press, 2011-present.
  • Faculty Coordinator, “Interdisciplinary Working Group in Critical Theory,” a faculty-graduate student workshop sponsored jointly by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, 2012-2014; 2015-2016
  • External Reviewer, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental College, March 31-Apr 1, 2014.
  • Faculty Affiliate, Post45 Research Collective, 2014-present. http://post45.research.yale.edu/about/
  • Participant, Faculty Voice and Influence Program, Clayman Institute, Stanford, 2013-2014.
  • Participant, Stanford Literary Lab, 2011-present.
  • Participant, “TransAmerican Studies Working Group,” Faculty-Student Working Group, Stanford Humanities Center, 2008-2012.
  • Participant, “Culture and Mind,” Faculty Working Group, Stanford University, Stanford University, Spring 2010-2012.
  • Participant, “Theorizing the Cultural and Inter-Personal Aspects of Inequality,” Interdisciplinary Bay Area Faculty Working Group, Fall 2010-2012.
  • Founding Member and Coordinating Team Member, The Future of Minority Studies, 2000-2010.       The FMS Research Project is a consortium of scholars and academic institutions with a primary interest in minority identity, education, and social transformation. Since its founding in 2000, the FMS project has evolved to become a mobile “think tank” facilitating focused and productive discussions across disciplines about the democratizing role of minority identity and participation in a multicultural society. http://www.fmsproject.cornell.edu/index.html.
  • Instructor, “Theory From the Periphery: Minority Struggles for Social Justice,” a Mellon-funded interdisciplinary two-week summer seminar for junior faculty and advanced graduate students sponsored by The Future of Minority Studies Research Project, July 24-August 5, 2006.
  • Reviewer for Signs, Aztlán, MELUS, Nepantla, Latino Studies, Hypatia, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Columbia University Press, University of California Press, Duke University Press.
  • Faculty Coordinator, “Feminist Theory Workshop,” a Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Graduate Workshop, Stanford University, 2002-03, 2007-08.
  • Faculty Coordinator, “Americanity/Coloniality/Modernity,” a faculty-graduate student workshop sponsored by the Research Institute of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2006-2007.
  • Faculty Coordinator, “How Do Identities Matter?,” a faculty-graduate student workshop sponsored jointly by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Research Institute of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2003-2006.
  • Co-organizer, Realism in the World, an FMS conference at Stanford University, May 19, 2005.

Departmental Service

  • Director of Graduate Studies, English, 2017-2019
  • Chair, Stanford Graduate Admissions, 2015-2017
  • Director, English with an Interdisciplinary Emphasis, 2011-2017
  • Co-Director, Graduate Student Placement, 2013-2014
  • Reappointment Committee for Saikat Majumdar, 2009-2010
  • Chair, Creative Planning Committee, 2005-2008
  • Early American Literature Search Committee, 2007-2008
  • Graduate Studies Committee, 2006-present
  • Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2003-present; 1998-1999
  • Committee on Selecting Jones Lecturers, Creative Writing Program, 1996-present
  • Co-Chair, Search Committee for English-language literature outside of Britain and the U.S., 2006-2007
  • African-American Literature Search Committee, 2003-2005
  • Co-Chair, Graduate Admissions, 2003-2005
  • American Literature Search Committee, 2000-2002
  • Chair, Lora Romero Memorial Lecture Committee, 1999-2001
  • Junior Search Committee, 1999-2000
  • Alden Dissertation Prize Selection Committee, 1998-1999
  • Writing and Critical Thinking Committee, 1997-1999
  • Bocock/Guerard Fiction Prize Selection Committee, 1998-1999
  • Co-chair, English Department Lecture Committee, 1997-1998

University Service

  • Stanford Faculty Senate Committee on Committees, 2017-2018
  • Faculty Senate, 2003-2005, 2013-2015, 2016-2018
  • Faculty Representative to BOSP Advisory Council, 2016-present
  • Bing Overseas Studies Program Executive Committee, 2014-present
  • Stanford University Press Board, 2014-2017
  • EDGE-SBE Mentor and Affiliated Faculty, 2016-2017
  • Chair, Review Committee for BOSP Oxford Center, 2016
  • Stanford Faculty Senate Steering Committee, 2013-2014
  • Graduate Faculty Fellowship Advisory Committee (GFFAC), 2007-present
  • Stanford Faculty Club Board of Directors, 2011-present
  • CCSRE Chairs and Directors Group, 2010-2013
  • Chair, Faculty Committee for the Chicano and Latino Community Scholar Prize for Academic Excellence, 2011-2013
  • Introductory Seminars Faculty Advisory Board, 2011-2013
  • Stanford Humanities Center (SHC) Advisory Board, 2005-2012
  • Discussion Leader, 12@12, A Series of Interdisciplinary Lunch Discussions Among Graduate Students and Faculty, 2010-2011
  • Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policies (C-USP), 2009-2010
  • Committee-in-Charge, Program in Modern Thought and Literature (MTL), 2005-2007, 2009-2010
  • New Strategies Advisory Group, 2006-2007
  • Committee on Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid (CUAFA), 2002-2005
  • Executive Committee, Research Institute in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (RICSRE), 2000-=2007
  • Resource Faculty for Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (formerly Feminist Studies), 1996-present
  • Program in Writing and Rhetoric Lecturer Selection Committee, 2001-2002
  • Galarza Prize Selection Committee, 1997-1998; 2001
  • Chicana/o Studies Curriculum Committee, 1996-2000
  • Rhetoric Search Committee, 1998-1999
  • Faculty Sponsor, Chicana/o Colloquia, Chicana/o Latina/o Graduate Student Association, 1996-1998
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Stanford Center for Chicana/o Studies, 1996-1998
  • Lopez/Rosaldo Prize Selection Committee, 1997; 2003

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Cornell)

  • Graduate Student Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Finance Committee, 1995
  • At-large Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, 1994-1995
  • Graduate Student Representative, University Assembly, 1994-1995
  • University Assembly Liaison, Board on University Health, 1994-1995
  • Coordinator, Student Ad Hoc Coalition on the U.S. Latina/o Studies, Fall 1994
  • President, U.S. Latina/o Graduate Student Coalition, 1993-1994
  • Co-Coordinator, U.S. Latina/o Studies Colloquia, 1993-1994
  • Graduate Student Representative, English Department Faculty Search Committee for a Specialist in U.S. Latina/o Literature, 1993

Professional Associations

  • Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS)
  • American Studies Association (ASA)
  • Modern Languages Association (MLA)
  • National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)