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EDUCATION

Ph.D. English, Rice University, Houston, TX.

M.A., English, Rice University, Houston, TX

M.A., Hispanic Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX

B.A., English and Political Science, Rice University, Houston, TX

RESEARCH TOPICS

Chicana/o/x literary criticism, Mexican American literature and culture, Chicana decolonial feminist theory, US-Mexico border literature, Latina/o/x literature, women of color feminism, materialist feminism, postcolonial theory, class analysis, affect theory, labor, working class literature, American literature, transnational literature, archival research, digital humanities, and public humanities

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Digital Program Manager, US Latino Digital Humanities Program at Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery)/Arte Público Press, University of Houston

Instructor, Center for Mexican American and Latino Studies (CMALS), University of Houston

Editorial Board, Reviews in Digital Humanities

PAST RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

CLIR-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Latin American Studies, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery)/Arte Público Press, University of Houston (Council on Library Information Resources; Digital Library Federation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)

Research Assistant to Dr. José F. Aranda, Jr., Departments of English and Spanish & Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Rice University

Docent, “The Black List Project,” HumanArt, Public Humanities project (collaboration between the Humanities Research Center and Rice Public Art), Rice University

Americas Studies Researcher, Digital Humanities project, Our Americas Archive Partnership, Geneva Henry and Dr. Caroline Levander, co-Principal Investigators, Rice University

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS

Rare Book School-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage

PI for Immersive Pedagogy: A Symposium on Humanities Teaching and Learning with 3D, Augmented and Virtual Reality, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

Chair’s Prize for Best Dissertation in the English Dept. for: Manos de Obra: Class, Race, Gender, and Colonial Affect-Culture in Mexican American Literature, Rice University

The Louis Owens Award for essay: “Vendidos: Affect-culture and the Coloniality of Selling Out in Luis Valdez’s ‘Los Vendidos’ (1967),” Western Literature Association

Provost’s Diversity Fellowship, Rice University

Conference Travel Grant, Américas Research Center, Rice University

Research and Teaching Grant, Américas Research Center, Rice University

COURSES TAUGHT

Instructor, Introduction to Mexican American Studies, University of Houston

Instructor, Mexican Immigration to the US, University of Houston

Co-instructor, Survey of Chicana/o Literature: Becoming Mexican in the United States, Rice University

Instructor, Global Literature: The New World (B)order, Rice University

Teaching Assistant, Victorian Fiction, Rice University

Teaching Assistant, Slavery in 20th Century American Fiction & Film, Rice University

Instructor, Introduction to Spanish Language and Culture, Rice University

EDITOR

Guest Editor. Special issue, Latinx Digital Humanities: Method, Theory, and Praxis, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures Special Issue, co-editor with Marissa K. López and Maira E. Álvarez. Forthcoming.

Guest Editor. Special issue, Documenting Transborder Latinidades: Archives, Libraries, and Digital Humanities, The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), vol. 6, no. 3, co-editor with Mario H. Ramírez, 2022, https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/issue/view/2669.

Guest Editor. Latinx Digital Humanities (Special bilingual edition), Reviews in Digital Humanities, vol.1, no. 12, https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v1-n12.

Co-editor. #DLFteach Toolkit Volume 2: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy. Co-editor with Alex Wermer-Colan, Emma Slayton, Mackenzie Brooks, Melanie Hubbard, Heidi Winkler, Jessica Linker, Neil Weijer, and Chris J. Young. 2022. https://dlfteach.pubpub.org/dlfteach-toolkit-2.

PUBLICATIONS: ESSAYS

“Postcustodial and Decolonial Archiving.” Advocating for Ourselves, 2022. https://chfellows.pubpub.org/pub/b35w5hkm.

“Chasing Miss Jimenez: Re-reading the Chicana Vendida through Colonial Affect-Culture.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 212-238, doi:10.1353/fro.2020.0036.

Co-author, with Jessica Linker, Emma Slayton, and Alex Wemer-Colan. “Immersive Pedagogy: Developing a Decolonial and Collaborative Framework for Teaching and Learning in 3D/VR/AR.” Special issue of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, May 2020, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/immersive-pedagogy-developing-a-decolonial-and-collaborative-framework-for-teaching-and-learning-in-3d-vr-ar/

“Sintiendo Vergüenza: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender, and Colonial Affect-Culture in Jorge Ainslie’s Los Repatriados (1935).” Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Anniversary Volume, Eds. Antonieta Castañeda and Clara Lomas, Arte Público Press, 2020.

Co-authored with Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel. “Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage: A Case Study on US Latina/o Archives and Digital Humanities.” Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, 2019.

“Post-custodial Archives and Minority Collections.” Editor’s Choice, Digital Humanities Now. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Blog, https://recoveryprojectappblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/post-custodial-archives-and-minority-collections/

“Who Are Latinas/os? An Inauguration Day Reflection.”Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2018, pp. 199-205.

“Incubator: Decolonizing the Digital Humanities.” Editor’s Choice, Digital Humanities Now. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Blog, https://recoveryprojectappblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/incubator-decolonizing-the-digital-humanities/

 “Nooses, Loopholes, and Questions of Legitimacy in Early Mexican American Literature.” Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. IX. Ed. Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara and Blanca López de Mariscal, Arte Público Press, 2015.

“Bordering on Revolution: Collective Memory and the Plan de San Diego in George Washington Gómez.” New Frontiers in Latin American Borderlands, Ed. Leslie Cecil, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

“Global Linking Through Archival Digitization: The Our Americas Archive Partnership and Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas (1876).” Microform & Imaging Review, vol. 40, 2012, pp. 25-29.

Co-authored. “Digitization practices for translations: Lessons learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project.” D-Lib Magazine, Sept. 2011, http://dlib.org/dlib/september11/rivero/09rivero.html 

PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS

Project review of Chicana/o Activism in the Southern Plains Through Time and Space by Joel Zapata for Reviews in Digital Humanities, vol.1, no. 2, 2020, https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/chicana-activism-in-the-southern-plains

Book review of Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. Eds. John Lennon and Magnus Nilsson for The Journal of Working-Class Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2018. https://workingclassstudiesjournal.com/

Book review of Cuando México se (re)apropia de Texas: Ensayos / When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays by Carmen Boullosa for Western American Literature. Vol. 51, no. 3, 2016.

PUBLICATIONS: INTERVIEW

“Interview with Michael Nava.” Literal Magazine, no. 37, http://literalmagazine.com/interview-with-michael-nava/

PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Barbacoa” Encyclopedia of Latino Folklore. Ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek, Greenwood Press, 2012.

“La vieja Inés y los listones” Encyclopedia of Latino Folklore. Ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek, Greenwood Press, 2012.

“Mariachi.” Encyclopedia of Latino Folklore. Ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek, Greenwood Press, 2012.

“Wedding traditions.” Encyclopedia of Latino Folklore. Ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek, Greenwood Press, 2012.

PUBLICATIONS: DIGITAL TRANSLATIONS (SAMPLE)

For access to all my Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) translations (90+ translations available, 2008-2011), please visit the Translations Collections of the OAAP digital archive: http://oaap.rice.edu

Nacente, Francisco. “Savage America” excerpt from Moral History of Women. Barcelona (Espana), Francisco Nacente, 1889, from Instituto Mora. http://oaap.rice.edu/view_item.php?id=1411&view=list.

B. M. L. Mesilla’s millions and their mysteries. Acapulco (Guerrero, Mexico), 1855, from Instituto Mora, http://oaap.rice.edu/view_item.php?id=1385&view=list

Guijarro, Miguel Ed. Spanish, Portuguese, and American women: As they are in their home, in the fields, in the cities, in church, during festivities, in the workshop, and in salons: descriptions and pictures of the Character, Customs, Typical Dress, Manners, Religion, Beauty, Defects, Preoccupations, and Qualities of Women from each of the Provinces of Spain, Portugal, and the Spanish Americas. Madrid: Miguel Guijarro, 1876, from Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Americas collection, 1811-1920, MS 518, http://hdl.handle.net/1911/20705.

Marti, Jose. Letter from Jose Marti to the Council Presidents on the Board of Advisors for Key West, March 18, 1893. 1893, from Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Americas collection, 1811-1920, MS 518, http://hdl.handle.net/1911/20701.

Zamora, Manuel. “Letter from the Mayor of Goliad, dictated by the Government’s Supreme Secretary of State, to the Political Headquarters, Department of Bexar, Goliad, Bexar, July 27, 1833.” 1833, from Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Americas collection, 1811-1920, MS 518, http://hdl.handle.net/1911/27583.

INVITED TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES

Discussion: Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye. Art at Noon series, Contemporary Art Museum Houston.

“Demystifying Digital Scholarship.” University of Michigan Libraries. Virtual.

“Doing Work that Matters: Latinx Archives, Digital Humanities, and Community Work” with Carolina Villarroel, Ohio State University.

“Introduction to Data and Digital Humanities.” Honors College Mellon Scholars program, University of Houston.

“Career Paths in US Latino Studies, Archives, and Digital Humanities.” Intro to Civic Leadership, Rice University. Virtual.

“Chicanx Studies and Digital Humanities.” Chicanx Literature Survey, Rice University. Virtual.

“Doing Work that Matters: Community Archiving in the Digital Age.” Community Archiving Speaker & Workshop series, History Department, Northeastern University. Virtual.

“US Latino Digital Humanities Best Practices: Building an Anti-Racist Praxis in the Archive” with Linda García Merchant. The Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth Conversations: Antiracism and the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Virtual.

“Digital Humanities: What, How and Why?” Keynote address for the Houston Community College 3rd Annual Digital Humanities and English Colloquium.

“Teaching Film History Online with Digital Tools.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by Eric Hoyt, director of of the Media History Digital Library. Virtual. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Linda García Merchant, and Carolina Villarroel, USLDH, https://youtu.be/X1xRxuPfVgk.

“(Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed: Using Chicana Feminist Theory in the Digital Humanities.” Center for Mexican American Studies Speaker Series, University of Texas at Arlington. Virtual.

“US-Latinx Archival Methodology.” University of Illinois Chicago, Virtual. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Linda García Merchant, and Carolina Villarroel, USLDH, https://youtu.be/3bQOJjXvuZQ.

“Who Tells Your Story?: Archives, DH, and Narrative-Creation.” Introduction to Historical Methods of Research, Prairie View A&M University.

Panel: “Data Science and Digital Humanities Across Various Disciplines.” 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program for the Office of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards, University of Houston.

“Collective Memory and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage.” Ecofeminism and Global Justice, The New School, New York, NY. *Canceled due to COVID-19.

“Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and US Latino Digital Humanities.” Topics in American Literature, University of Texas-Arlington.

“US Latinx Digital Humanities: Telling Latinx Stories in the Digital Age.” Hispanic Heritage Month speaker series, Sam Houston State University, The Woodlands, TX.

“CLIR Opportunities: Balancing Academic and Alt-Ac Career Paths for Doctoral Students.” CHAT Professional Development Workshops, Temple Libraries and Digital Scholarship Center, Temple University. Philadelphia, PA.

“#usLdh: Latinos en los Estados Unidos en la era de las humanidades digitales” webinar with Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Dr. Carolina Villarroel.  Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders, the Society of American Archivists’ Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Section (LACCHA).

“(Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed: Decolonial Theory and US Latinx Digital Humanities.” Digital Scholarship in the Americas, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas-Austin. [Video]

“Enacting the Mission.” Closing Plenary panel, DLF Forum, Digital Library Federation, Las Vegas, NV. [Video]

“Maintaining a Digital Presence.” All School Day: Getting the Job you Want, University of North Texas, Department of Information Science, Houston, TX.

“Elaborating a (Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed in US Latinx Digital Humanities.” Digital Dialogues, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland. [Video]

“Feminist Research and Digital Humanities.” WGSS 6301: Feminist Theory and Methodologies, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

“Recovering Oppressed Voices: Feminist Archival Research and Digital Humanities.” WGSS 4530: Issues in Feminist Research: Into the Archives. University of Houston, Houston, TX.

“Decolonizing the Digital Humanities.” US Latina/o Digital Humanities. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

“Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage and US Latina/o Digital Humanities.” Poetas Unidos: A Celebration of Bilingual Poetry. Houston Poetry Fest. Talento Bilingüe Houston, Houston, TX.

“Class, Race, Gender, and Repatriation in Jorge Ainslie’s Los Repatriados.” ENGL 471: Studies in Chicana/o Literature, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Latino/as Navigating Graduate School.” A Day of Mentorship sponsored by the Society of Latino Alumni at Rice (SOLAR), Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Folk spirituality and the Marxist Critique of Religion in Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him.”  ENGL 371: Survey of Chicana/o Literature, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Translation and the Digital Humanities: How translation of historical documents provides new topics in research.” ENGL 471/SPAN 496: Studies in Chicana/o Literature: The Latino/a Novel in the Spanish Language Press of the U.S, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Introduction to Using Affect in Chicana/o Literature: Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him.” ENGL 371: Survey of Chicana/o Literature, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“The Great Gatsby, the American Jeremiad, and American Dream Rhetoric.” ENGL 260: Introduction to American Literature, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Making History More Accessible: Using the OAAP Digital Archive in the AP History Classroom.” Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Teaching Language through Historical Documents: Using Digital Archives in the AP Spanish Language Classroom.” Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“An Introduction to the Digital Humanities: Using Historical Resources in the AP History Classroom.” Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Using Archival Resources in the Spanish Classroom.” Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX.

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

Manos de Obra: Class, Race, Gender, and Colonial Affect-Culture in Mexican American Literature.

Co-editor, with Dr. José Aranda and Elena Valdez. Jorge Ainslie’s Los Pochos (1934) and Los Repatriados (1935). Taller Americano de Traducción Rice University. Translation book series.

Co-translator, Un matrimonio como hay muchos: Novela contemporánea (1848). Project Director: Dr. Kirsten Silva-Gruez.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Roundtable: Interrogating the Archive through Latina Feminism.” DH Unbound. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, and Linda García Merchant.

“Interrogating the Archive and Digital Humanities through Latina Feminism.” NYCDH Week. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, and Linda García Merchant.

“Roundtable: A Latina Feminist Praxis: Multiethnic Archives and Digital Humanities.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States (MELUS), New Orleans, LA. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Carolina Villarroel, and Linda García Merchant.

“Encuentro as Praxis: Nurturing the Community-to-Higher-Ed Pipeline.” Digital Library Federation DLF Forum 2021, Virtual. Co-presenter with Linda García Merchant.

“The Decolonial Walkthrough (workshop).” Digital Pedagogy Institute, Virtual. Co-presenter with Chris J. Young.

“Designing  the DLF Teach Toolkit on Immersive Pedagogy.” Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2021 conference, Virtual. Co-presenter with Alex Wermer-Colan, Heidi Winkler, Emma Slayton, Jasmine Clark, Neil Weijer, and Jessica Linker.

“#DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 2: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy.” Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Virtual. Co-presenter with Heidi Winkler and Alex Wermer-Colan.

“US Latino DH: Recovering the Past, Creating the Future.” Digital Library Federation DLF Forum 2020, Virtual. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Linda García Merchant, and Carolina Villarroel, USLDH. https://youtu.be/AEKpm6XjCSA.

“US Latino Digital Humanities Workshop: Creating Interactive Digital Timelines for the Classroom.” Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Ed (TACHE), Virtual. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel.

“Testimony and Trauma in the Latina/o Archive: Women Denouncing Discrimination in the Alonso S. Perales Collection.” XV Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX.

Digital Showcase: “US Latinx Digital Humanities.” DH Forum, University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS.

Panel: “Knowledge and Memory in Chicana/o and Latinx Digital Humanities.” Digital Frontiers. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Isis Campos.

“Avanzamos! El Taller Chicana/o/x.” National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco, Houston Community College, Houston, TX. Co-presenter with José Aranda and Elena Valdez.

“Contesting the Historical record with Digital Tools: A Workshop for Chicanx Studies.” National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco, Houston Community College, Houston, TX. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel.

“Digital Humanities 101: An Introduction to Ethnic Digital Humanities.” National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco, Houston Community College, Houston, TX. Co-presenter with Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Carolina Villarroel.

Using Third World Feminism in Digital Humanities.” TC Digital Humanities sponsored roundtable on Digital Hispanisms. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Chicago, IL.

“(Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed: Approaching US Latina/o Digital Humanities through Decolonialism and Affect.” Digital Humanities Conference (DH2018). The Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO),  El Colegio de México,  La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), La Red de Humanidades Digitales. Mexico City, DF, Mexico.

“(Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed: Decolonial Digital Ethnic Archives.” TransCulture. The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). Las Vegas, NV.

“Local Histories, Personal Archives, and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage.” Personal Digital Archiving Conference. University of Houston Libraries, Houston, TX.

“Elaborating and Advancing #SouthwesternDH: An Interactive Organizing Panel.” Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities. Utah State University. Logan, UT.

“‘The flesh of women’s lives’: Using Affect to Decolonize Feminism.” Owning Up to Our Feminist Thinking: A Workshop in Theory and Practice. Myth and Storytelling West of the Mississippi. Western Literature Association, Minneapolis, MN.

“Devalued Bodies and Colonial Castes: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender, and Colonial Affect-Culture in Jorge Ainslie’s Los Repatriados.” Hispanic Language, Writings, and Culture in the New Political Arena. University of Houston. Houston, TX.

“Sólo un ‘miraje’: Negotiating Affect-Culture, Social Class, and Lived Class Experience in Jorge Ainslie’s Los Repartiados.” Writing/Righting History. Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, Houston, TX.

“Reproduction and Colonial-Affect Culture in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don (1885).” Crossing Borders/Cruzando Fronteras. Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH). Houston, TX.

“Vendidas: The Gendered and Colonial Dynamics of Selling Out in Luis Valdez’s ‘Los Vendidos’ (1967).” Borders and Frontiers in American Literature, American Literature Association Symposium. San Antonio, TX.

“Vendidos: Affect-culture and the Coloniality of Selling Out in Luis Valdez’s ‘Los Vendidos’ (1967).” Visual Culture in the Urban West, Western Literature Association. Reno, NV.

“Vendidos: Intersections of Affect, Class, and Coloniality in Luis Valdez’s ‘Los Vendidos’ (1967).” VI Jornada de Fronteras/Borderline: Cultura e Historia, Espacio, Liminalidad y Nación. Tecnológico de Monterrey. Monterrey, NL, Mexico.

“An American Dream Foreclosed: Immigration and Jeremiad Rhetoric in The Great Gatsby and The Adventures of Don Chipote.” Borders and Encounters, Humanities Graduate Student Association Interdisciplinary Conference. Rice University. Houston, TX.

“The Failure of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby and The Adventures of Don Chipote” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY.

“Mapping Chicano Identity through Affect in Tómas Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra.” Rice English Symposium. Houston, TX.

“Melancholia and the Affective Construction of Identity in Tómas Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra.” Western Literature Association Conference. Berkeley, CA.

“Loopholes and Nooses: Military Presence and Legitimacy on the Border.” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference. Houston, TX.

“The Chicano Caliban: Anzalúa’s postcolonial discourse in Borderlands/La Frontera.” El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on Anzaldúan Thought and Art and Performance. University of Texas at San Antonio.

“Bordering on Revolution: Collective Memory and the Plan de San Diego in George Washington Gómez.” Latin American Borderlands, Stephen F. Austin State University. Nacogdoches, TX.

“Global linking through archival digitization: The Our Americas Archive Partnership and Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas (1876).” UT Graduate Symposium: Merging Textualities, Emerging Paradigms in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin.

“Revolution on the Border: George Washington Gómez and the Republic of the Southwest.” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference. Houston, TX.

“Bordering on Freedom: Translation and Identity in Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía.” Hispanic Literatures: Transnational and Transatlantic Writings, University of Houston.

“El más triste recuerdo de Acapulco: Reinterpretación, globalización y consumo masivo de la memoria a través del bolero mexicano ‘Amor eterno’.” Encounters: Languages and Literatures in Contact. University of Texas at Austin.

DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL (SAMPLE)

For access to all my OAAP Educational Modules (originals and translations), please visit the Connexions (CNX) website: https://legacy.cnx.org/content/expanded_browse_authors?letter=G&author=lorena19

 “Biography of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano.” CNX. https://legacy.cnx.org/content/m38171/latest/ 

“Introduction to a ten pesos Mexican banknote.” CNX.  https://legacy.cnx.org/content/m38621/latest/

“Introduction to Cabeza de Vaca and his Account.” CNX. http://legacy.cnx.org/content/m34644/latest/

“Maps from the Mexican American War” CNX. https://legacy.cnx.org/content/m38574/latest/

“Using archival documents in the Spanish classroom.” CNX. https://legacy.cnx.org/content/m38485/latest/

“Plagiarism in Historical Texts.” CNX.  https://legacy.cnx.org/content/m34768/latest/

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

(variously, 2012-present)

  • The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
  • Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultural Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH)
  • Bibliographical Society of America (BSA)
  • Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Houston (CMAS)
  • Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery)
  • Society of American Archivists (SAA)
  • Society of Southwestern Archivists (SSA)
  • Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE)
  • Western Literature Association (WLA)

LANGUAGES

  • English (native fluency)
  • Spanish (native fluency)
  • Portuguese (working reading knowledge)
  • French (working reading knowledge)