MICHAEL CUCHER Department of English 319 E. San Miguel St. The Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO 80903 14 E. Cache La Poudre St. 310-940-8154 Colorado Springs, CO 80903 michael.cucher@coloradocollege.edu 719-389-6498 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,, 2012-2014 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, 2010-2011 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, 2003-2008 Instructor, English Department, Beijing Normal University, 2001-2002 HONORS: English Department MacKellar Summer Award (USC), 2011 Professionalization Initiative Grant (USC), 2009-2010 Travel Grant (USC), 2009 Feuchtwanger Merit Fellowship (USC), 2008-2009
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, 2007. Book Reviews: Review of Scott Comar, Border Junkies. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 38.1(2013): 267-270. Review of Brett Neilson, Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle and Other Tales of Counterglobalization. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 35.3-4 (2004): 540-545. Online Publications: Guest Column A Zapatista Encuentro in Downtown Los Angeles. La Bloga, June 15, 2012. <http://labloga.blogspot.com/2012/06/guest-column-zapatista-encuentro-in.html> A Buzzflash Reader Contribution: John McCain s Weapons of Self-Destruction. Buzzflash, November 3, 2008. <www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/5959-mike-cucherjohn-mccains-weapons-of-selfdestruction> 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 2014. 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 2014. 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.
Cucher 3 Teaching Latina/o Literature: Course Design, Pedagogy, Best Practices. Annual Conference for the American Literature Association. Boston, Massachusetts. May 2013. Tierra y Libertad from the Borderlands to the Lacondón. Annual Conference for the American Literature Association. San Francisco, California. May 2012. 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 2011. 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 2010. 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 2008. Détournement: Vandalizing the Visual and the Cultural Production of Resistance. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Meeting. California State University,Long Beach. April 2008.. 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 2007. 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 2007. Reflections on a Transgenre Quagmire: Academia and Activism on the Venice Boardwalk. Association of English Graduate Students Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Southern California. April 2006.. 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 2001. 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
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, 2012-2013 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, 1910-1920, USC, December 2009 LANGUAGES: English (native speaker) Spanish (conversational, intermediate) Mandarin (conversational, beginner)
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) 471-4557 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) 232-6313 ngh24@austin.utexas.edu Regula Meyer Evitt Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College Colorado College (719) 389-6706 rmevitt@coloradocollege.edu John Carlos Rowe Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity USC (213) 821-5594 johnrowe@email.usc.edu David Lloyd Distinguished Professor of English University of California, Riverside (530) 752-2257 dclloyd@ucr.edu