marcus.embry@unco.eduAssociate Professor: Latina/o Literature, Literature of the Americas, American and Latin American Literature.
Education:
PhD Literature Duke
University
Recent Publications:
Review of Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representation
of Latinidad. Nepantla: Views from South 3:1 (2002), 187-193.
"Chicana/o Literature and Voices of a New Chicana/o History." The New Centennial Review 1.1 (Spring, 2001): 313-331.
Co-edited with Alberto Moreiras, "The Cultural Practice of Latin Americanism II." dispositio/n 50: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 23.50 1998 (Published 2000).
Co-edited with Alberto Moreiras, "The Cultural Practice of Latin Americanism I." dispositio/n 49: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 23.49 1998 (Published 2000).
"Chicano Geography in Detective Fiction." Tema y Variaciones de Literatura No. 14 Espejos y Reflejos: literatura chicana. Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. Division de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Semestre I, 2000. Mexico. pp. 73-86.
"Visions of the Borderlands: Cinema and the Metaphor of Latinidad." dispositio/n 50: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 23.50 1998 (Published 2000): 59-76.
"The Shadow of Latinidad in US Literature." Discourse: Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 21.3 (Fall, 1999): 115-141.
"The Angel of History and Men with Guns." Discourse: Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 21.2 (Spring, 1999): 164-181.
"Literary Snakes and the Politics of Appropriation." El Mito de lo Umbilical: Los Latinos en America del Norte, Axel Ramirez and Patricia Casasa, eds. Mexico City: National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1997; pp. 89-100.
"Cholo Angels in Guadalajara: The Politics and Poetics of Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera," Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory 8:2, Issue 16 "Queer Acts" (1996), 87-110.
Recent Presentations:
"Here There Be Dragons: New Boundaries in Latina/o Literature." American Literature Association. May 22-25, 2003, Cambridge, MA.
"Chicano Pedagogy and Website Technology." American Literature Association. May 22-25, 2003, Cambridge, MA.
"The Other Side of a Genre: Recovering Chicano History in Detective Fiction." American Comparative Literature Association National Conference. April 4-6, 2003, San Marcos, CA.
"Global Extinction and Caribbean Bodies." 10th International Conference on Latino/a Cultures in the United States: Body Signs, The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production. June 28-30, 2002, Vienna, Austria.
"Disrupting Savagism and In Search of Snow." III Congreso internacional de literatura chicana. May 21-23, 2002, Malaga, Spain.
"Tradition and the Usable Artifacts of the Americas." American Comparative Literature Association 2001 National Conference. April 20-22, 2001, Boulder, CO.
"Dirty Atopics in Perez’s Geographies of Home." Iberia 2002 International Seminar Series V Encounter: Contra/Communidad. April 6-9, 2001, Duke University, Durham, NC.
"The Angel of History and Latina/o Literature in the Twenty-first Century." Invited lecture given to faculty and students at the University of California, Irvine, February 12, 2001.
"Race and Gender in Geographies of Home." International Paris Conference on African Americans – Diasporas africaines dans l’ancien et le nouveau monde: conscience et imaginaire, October 26-28, 2000, Paris, France.
"The Liminal Caribbean: Notes on Location." American Studies Association Annual Conference, October 12-15, 2000, Detroit, MI.
"Flaming Academics: Seeing Ourselves in Latina Texts." American Literature Association Annual Conference 2000, May 25-28, 2000, Long Beach, CA.
"Cuban Double Cross: Father’s Lies in Obejas and Garcia." Ninth International Conference on Latino Cultures in North America, May 11-13, 2000, San Marcos, CA.
"Chicano Geography in Detective Fiction" The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, February 9-12, 2000, Albuquerque, NM.
"Dangerous Books: Chicana Studies and De-globalization." Invited lecture given to faculty and students at Duke University, February 12, 1999, Durham, NC.
"Chicana Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century" Looking for Oñate’s Foot: 8th University of New Mexico Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, February 4-5, 1999, Albuquerque, NM.
"From Moctezuma Esparza to John Sayles: The Boderlands Hermeneutic in the 90s" Shifting Boundaries: Place and Space in the Romance Cultures of the Americas (Eighth International Conference on Latino Cultures in the US), May 26-29, 1998, Groningen, Holland. Also chaired panel titled "Beyond the homeland/borderlands dichotomy."
"The Shadow of Latinidad in US Literature" Constructing Latina/Latino Studies Conference, April 2-3, 1998, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
"Border Discourse: The Crisis in Transculturation" Transculturation and State Discourse in Latin America Conference, November 16, 1997, Durham, NC.
"Bi-Languaging Criticism and Literature: New Novels by Bruce Novoa and Viramontes" Chicano Cultural Critique: Trespassing Disciplinary Divides Conference, April 25, 1997, Boulder, CO.
"The Shadow of Latinidad in Uncle Tom’s Cabin" Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, April 10, 1997, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.