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1 MICHAEL CUCHER Department of English 319 E. San Miguel St. The Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO E. Cache La Poudre St Colorado Springs, CO Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION: University of Southern California, Ph.D. in English, 2011 Dissertation: Riding with Zapata through las entrañas del monstruo: Representations of Emiliano Zapata from Cold War Hollywood, Chicana/o Literature and Culture, and the EZLN Rebellion Advisors: John Carlos Rowe (chair), David Lloyd, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Teresa McKenna Areas of Specialization: Chicana/o literature and art, twentieth-century U.S. literature and film, Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, University of Southern California, M.A. in English, 2006 University of Southern California, B.A. in American Literature, 2001 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Colorado College, Present Visiting Lecturer, Center for Mexican American Studies,, Faculty Lecturer, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Spring 2012 Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Fall 2011 Writing Consultant, The Writing Program, University of Southern California, Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Southern California, Spring 2010 Instructor, SummerTIME, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University of Southern California, Summer 2009 Assistant Lecturer, The Writing Program, University of Southern California, Instructor, English Department, Beijing Normal University, HONORS: English Department MacKellar Summer Award (USC), 2011 Professionalization Initiative Grant (USC), Travel Grant (USC), 2009 Feuchtwanger Merit Fellowship (USC),

2 Cucher 2 Award for Excellence in Teaching in Recognition of Exceptional Instructional Skills by The Center for Excellence in Teaching (USC), Spring 2005 PUBLICATIONS: Book Chapter: Azucena s Photographic Memory: Picturing Fictional Autobioethnography in Norma Elia Cantú s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. Word Images: A Norma Cantú Critical Reader. Ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs forthcoming. Assistant Editor: Peter D. O Neill and David Lloyd, eds. The Black and Green Atlantic. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, Book Reviews: Review of Scott Comar, Border Junkies. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 38.1(2013): Review of Brett Neilson, Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle and Other Tales of Counterglobalization. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (2004): Online Publications: Guest Column A Zapatista Encuentro in Downtown Los Angeles. La Bloga, June 15, < A Buzzflash Reader Contribution: John McCain s Weapons of Self-Destruction. Buzzflash, November 3, < PRESENTATIONS: Picturing Chicana Feminism in Norma Elia Cantú s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. The Latina/o Literary Landscape: A Symposium Supported by the American Literature Association. San Antonio, Texas. March Useable Legacies, Concrete Utopias: Emiliano Zapata in Chicana/o Murals. Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution: Mexican Legacies of Global Change - Conference. University of Texas at Austin. February The Walls Belong to Those Who Work Them: Re-viewing Emiliano Zapata in the Chicana/o Murals of Southern California. Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference. University of Illinois-Chicago. September 2013.

3 Cucher 3 Teaching Latina/o Literature: Course Design, Pedagogy, Best Practices. Annual Conference for the American Literature Association. Boston, Massachusetts. May Tierra y Libertad from the Borderlands to the Lacondón. Annual Conference for the American Literature Association. San Francisco, California. May Riding with Zapata in Aztlán: Re-thinking the relationship between Emiliano Zapata and Chicano cultural nationalism. Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide Conference. University of California, Riverside. March Tierra y Libertad in the U.S.A.: Cultural nationalist representations of Emiliano Zapata from the Chicano Movement. Annual Conference for the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. Tepoztlán, Morelos. July We make our tortillas out of corn, not patience : the production of revolution and counterrevolution in Elia Kazan and John Steinbeck s Viva Zapata! Subaltern-Popular Multi- Campus Research Group, Dissertation Workshop. University of California, Santa Barbara. September Détournement: Vandalizing the Visual and the Cultural Production of Resistance. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Meeting. California State University,Long Beach. April Development as Counter-Insurgency in John Womack Jr. s Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature. University Of California, Irvine. April On the passage of détournement through a rather brief period in the society of the spectacle. Association of English Graduate Students Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Southern California. March Reflections on a Transgenre Quagmire: Academia and Activism on the Venice Boardwalk. Association of English Graduate Students Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Southern California. April From Robert Johnson to Nirvana: Popular Music in the United States and the Relationship between History and Culture. English Language Speaker Series, Beijing Medical University. October TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Undergraduate Courses: Mexican American Literature and Culture, English and Mexican American Studies, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in American Literature and Film, English and Mexican

4 Cucher 4 American Studies, Latina/o Visual Cultures, Mexican American Studies, Honors Tutorial Course, Mexican American Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Literature, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC The Monster and the Detective in Literature and Film, Department of English, USC Writing and Critical Reasoning, Writing Program, USC Introduction to Chicana/o Literature and Culture, English Department, Colorado College U.S. Literatures of Resistance, Collusion, and Struggle, English Department, Colorado College Race, Perversity, and Freedom in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, English Department, Colorado College English Conversation, Beijing Normal University SERVICE: Co-organizer for the international conference, Illustrating Anarchy and Revolution: Mexican Legacies Of Global Change,, February 5-7, 2014 Faculty Sponsor, Denius Music Industry Internship,, Spring 2014 Chair, Panel, Voice, Agency, and Writing, Annual Conference for the American Literature Association. Boston, Massachusetts. May 2013 Faculty Supervisor, Honors Thesis, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Participant, Mellon Grant Intellectual Exchange, Colorado College and the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, October 2011 Co-organizer for the symposium, Black and Brown: African Americans & the Mexican Revolution, , USC, December 2009 LANGUAGES: English (native speaker) Spanish (conversational, intermediate) Mandarin (conversational, beginner)

5 Cucher 5 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Modern Language Association American Literature Association American Comparative Literature Association REFERENCES: Domino Renee Perez Director, Center for Mexican American Studies Associate Professor, Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies (512) drperez@austin.utexas.edu Nicole Guidotti-Hernández Associate Director, Center for Mexican American Studies Associate Professor, Department of American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies (512) ngh24@austin.utexas.edu Regula Meyer Evitt Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College Colorado College (719) rmevitt@coloradocollege.edu John Carlos Rowe Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity USC (213) johnrowe@ .usc.edu David Lloyd Distinguished Professor of English University of California, Riverside (530) dclloyd@ucr.edu

EDELINA M. BURCIAGA 3151 Social Science Plaza Irvine, CA

EDELINA M. BURCIAGA 3151 Social Science Plaza Irvine, CA 92697-5000 eburciag@uci.edu EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, Irvine, CA Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology. Expected graduation