MALCS Archive

(MALCS) Women Active in Letters and Social Change

L.A.: Another tenured Chicana, and some art…

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Newly tenured Associate Professor Dionne Espinoza writes of her recent tenure decision at Cal State L.A. in the department of Chicano Studies. She is also Director of the Center for the Study of Genders & Sexualities at CSULA. She is also awaiting publication of her new book, co-edited with Lorena Oropeza, titled Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte, in the Hispanic Civil Rights Series of Arte Publico Press (forthcoming Nov 2006). Congrats Dionne!!

Across town at the University of LaVerne, Claudia Huiza is very excited about an upcoming artshow by Martin Durazo.  She writes that “Martin’s work is extremely relevant to the era we live in and offers a piercing commentary on human nature, our tendency to turn to harmful living in pursuit of an alternative spirituality, and explores themes such as perceptive manipulation and perceived control through organizational systems.”  The show runs from Sept 12 thru Oct 20 at Harris Art Gallery at the Univ of LaVerne.  You can also see Martin’s work at his website.

JOBS: Linguistics, Liberal Studies, CompSci/MathEngr – California

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JOB: Chicano/a Studies Department, Cal State Northridge, Assistant Professor rank, Effective Fall 2007

JOB: National Hispanic University, San Jose, CA – Chair of Liberal Studies

JOB: National Hispanic University, San Jose, CA -Chair of Computer Science/ Mathematics and Science Department [Read more…] about JOBS: Linguistics, Liberal Studies, CompSci/MathEngr – California

Congratulations! Amazing women…

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Congratulations to MALCS chair Adriana Ayala on the recent completion of her dissertation in history at UT Austin! Adriana’s diss was titled “Negotiating Race Relations Through Activism: Women Activists and Women’s Organizations in San Antonio, Texas During the 1920s.” She is currently the chair of liberal studies at the National Hispanic University in San Jose, California. Congrats, Dra. Ayala!

Congrats también to Anna Sandoval at Las Hijas de JuanCalifornia State University, Long Beach, and ex-oficio chair Josie Mendez-Negrete at UT San Antonio. Both MALCSistas recently gained tenure, and can take a big sigh of relief….for about five seconds, probably. Anna is associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at CSULB, and Josie is Associate Professor of Bilingual – Bicultural Studies at UTSA. Josie is also pleased to announce the re-release of her novel Las Hijas de Juan by Duke University Press as part of the Latina America Otherwise series (edited by Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Walter Mignolo, and Irene Silverblatt). The new edition is beautifully produced, in a manner suited to this painfully beautiful memoir, which Norma L. Cardenas describes as a “childhood story of courage and resistance to patriarchy too frightening to be imagined and too hurtful to be forgotten.”