Contributors

Frederick Luis Aldama is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His publications include: Postethnic Narrative Criticism. (University of Texas Press, 2003); “New Millennia Chicano/a Bodies in Edward J. Olmos' American Me” in Decolonial Voices Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi Quiñónez (Indiana University Press, 2002), as well as numerous other articles and book reviews.

Maria I. Duke dos Santos received her Ph.D. from the Louisiana State University in Spanish Literature. She is a professor and Coordinator of Graduate Spanish Education at Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas. Her publications include two editions: Sabine R. Ulibarri: Critical Essays (with Patricia de la Fuente). (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995) and Sabine R. Ulibarri: Fantasías y Fantasmas de Quito (Valladolid, Spain: Universitas Castellae) in addition to numerous articles and interviews.

Larry J. Estrada Larry J. Estrada, is Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Ethnic Studies as well as Director of American Cultural Studies at Western Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education at UCLA and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. His published work includes research on American Immigration Policy, Bilingual Education, Urban Educational Policy and the History of Mexican Education. Dr. Estrada is also the former mayor of Fort Collins, Colorado and has held several political and policy positions on a national and statewide basis.

Ann Fey is Professor of English at State University of New York, Rockland Community College, where she teaches the course Literature and Film. Her postgraduate studies in international film include Fulbright Seminars in Pakistan and in Morocco.

Maria Herrera-Sobek is Acting Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Policy and is a Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include The Bracero Experience: Elitelore versus Folklore (1979), The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis (1990), and Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song(1993). In addition she is the editor or co-editor of Beyond Stereotypes: The Critical Analyses of Chicana Literature (1985), Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in Chicana Literature (with Helena Maria Viramontes) (1988 and 1996), Gender and Print Culture: New Perspectives on International Ballad Studies (1991), Reconsructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest, (1993), Chicana (W)rites: On World and Film (with Helena Maria Viramontes) (1995), Saga de Mexico, (1991), Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture ( with David Maciel) (1998), Recovering the US. Hispanic Literary Heritage: Volume IV, (2000), Power in Acedeme: Race and Gender- Strangers in the Tower (2000), Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions: Culture and Society in Dialogue, (2000), Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Trends in Chicano Culture (with David Maciel and Isidro Ortiz) (2000), Santa Barraza: Artist from the Borderlands (2001).

Elizabeth Jacobs works at the Research Collection at Arizona State University for her doctoral thesis, Chicana/o Literature and the Politics of Identity. The thesis focuses on issues of identity associated with the Chicano Civil Rights Movement (el movimiento) and subsequent revisions in Chicana women’s writing of the post Movement decades.

Carl Gutiérrez Jones is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1990. He received his B. A. degree in English and American literature at Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the author of Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, and Injury (2001), Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Narrative and Legal Discourse (1995), as well articles on contemporary literature, film, and cultural theory.

Guisela Latorre is an Assistant Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 2002. Her publications include: "Re-Mapping the National Consciousness: Agustín Víctor Casasola and the Chicana/Chicano Artist,” in Geographies of Latinidad (Anthology) (Duke University Press, 2001). "Latina Feminism and Visual Discourse: Yreina Cervantez's La Ofrenda." Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 21:3 (Fall 1999).

Francisco Lomelí is Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Professor of Spanish in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and has written numerous articles and edited several books including Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (with Rudolfo A. Anaya) (University of New Mexico Press, 1991); a translation Barrio on the Edge (Tempe: Bilingual Review Press, 1997); and edited with Karin Ikas Die zeitgenössische Chicana-Literatur Eine interkulturelle Untersuchung. Heidelberg: 2000.

Maria Teresa Márquez is a Library Administrator and Library Science Professor at the Zimmerman Library at the University of New Mexico. She has co-edited two books: (with Tey Diana Rebolledo and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Las Mujeres Hablan: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicana Writers (Albuquerque: El Norte Publications, 1988); and New Mexico Hispanic Women’s Stories: La Diabla a Pie (with Tey Diana Rebolledo). (Houston, Arte Publico Press, 2001). She has written numerous articles and bibliographies.

Ellen McCracken is a Professor in Spanish and Portugese Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Her publications include: From Mademoiselle to Ms.: Decoding Women’s Magazines (St. Martin’s, 1993); New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity (University of Arizona Press, 1999); Fray Angélico Chávez: Poet, Priest, Artist (University of New Mexico Press, 2000); Her work also includes articles on US Latina writers such as Cisneros, Ponce, Alvarez, Mohr, Limón as well as Latin American writers.

Esra Sahtiyancı Öztarhan is an instructor at Ege University, American Culture and Literature Department. She received her B.A in International Relations Department and her M.A. in the Department of History at Bilkent University. She is currently writing her Ph.D.thesis at Ege University on contemporary women’s fiction. Among her scholarly interests are Popular Culture, Ethnic American Women Writers and Women’s Studies.