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Digitizing Project Now Available
We are proud to bring you the Capirotada Digitizing Project. You can begin by perusing the Capirotada Index which lists titles and authors. Each issue is shown on an individual page on this site. I have included an image of the first page of the issue...
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Ruiz Successfully Defends Dissertation
The Latino Caucus would like to congratulate Iris Ruiz who successfully defended her dissertation this year. Ruiz has accepted an offer at the University of California, Merced, the newest of the UC system. Starting this fall, she...
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Leon Successfully Defends Dissertation
The Latino Caucus would like to congratulate Kendall Leon who successfully defended her dissertation this year. Leon will be joining the faculty of Rhetoric & Composition at Purdue University this Fall. The project abstract follows: Building a Chicana Rhetoric for Rhetoric...
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agnès films Invites You to Join our Community of Female Filmmakers
Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar victory this year (she is the first woman to ever receive an Academy Award for directing) may have some people thinking that women filmmakers have finally found equality in the industry. However, this is regretfully far...
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College Mentors for Kids Student Project
This project was completed by three of my English 106 students: Lauren Murrell, Rachael Trevino and Darshana Umakanth. The group assignment asked the students to find a person or organizationg doing heroic work in the community and to research their...
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In the ‘Majority’—Representing at UA New Directions Conference
At the 9 a.m. Friday session, I presented my paper “Recursive Border Negotiation: Paideia, Conscientização and FYC” at the 2010 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference (http://english.arizona.edu/index_site.php?id=678) at the University of Arizona. My presentation addressed the use of “teaching as play”...
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Finding Identity in Fresno: Contributing to Chicana Literature
About the Author Erin Alvarez will start the M.F.A. program in fiction at California State University in the fall of 2010. She was born and raised in Fresno, but lived in Santa Cruz, Watsonville, San Diego, and Oxnard ...
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Selections of Poetry by Raquel Lara
About the Author My name is Raquel Lara. Born and raised to Paula and Rosario Lara on the Southeast side of Fresno California. I have lived all my life in the barrio. I am proud Mexican American. Sinaloa are where my...
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