Rafael
Pérez-Torres,
Professor
Ph.D.
Stanford Univ., 1989. Chicano Cultural Studies and Literature;
Contemporary American Literature; Postmodern Theory and Culture.
Interests: Professor Pérez-Torres specializes in
studying the intersection of contemporary U.S. culture with social
configurations of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. He is
particularly interested in the intersection between contemporary
multicultural production and theories of postcoloniality and postmodernity.
Publications: He is the author of Movements in Chicano
Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (Cambridge University Press,
1995), Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (University
of Minnesota Press, 2006), and co-author of To Alcatraz, Death
Row and Back: Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw (University of Texas
Press, 2005). He also co-edited The Chicano Studies Reader: An
Anthology of Aztlán 1970-2000 with Chon Noriega, Eric Avila,
MaryKaren Davilos, and Chela Sandoval (Chicano Studies Research
Center Publications, 2001).
Other publications include "Chicano Ethnicity, Cultural
Hybridity, the Mestizo Voice" (American Literature 70.1),
"Refiguring Aztlán" (Aztlán: A Journal
of Chicano Studies 22.2), "Between Presence and Absence:
Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness" (A Casebook on Beloved
edited by William Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay.. Oxford University
Press, 1999), and "Nomads and Migrants - Negotiating a Multicultural
Postmodernism" (Cultural Critique, 26).
Additional Information: He has served on the editorial
boards of such journals as America Literary History, American
Literature, Aztlán, and Contemporary Literature and regularly
teaches courses on Chicano/a literature and culture, postmodernism
and multiculturalism, and the novel and its theories.
Before arriving at UCLA, he held positions at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Pennsylvania, and UC Santa
Barbara. For more information, see his homepage: www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/perezt/default.htm
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