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María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Visiting Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Director, Latino Studies, Spring 2007

Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature, Ph.D.
Yale University, English Literature, B.A.

Selected Works

The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development . (Duke University Press, 2003)

"In the Shadow of NAFTA: Y tu mamá también Revisits the National Allegory of Mexican Sovereignty," American Quarterly . 57.3: 751-778.

"Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being: The Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo and Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes’s George Washington Gómez," Radical History Review. 89 (Winter): 135-161.

"On the Road With Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac: Melancholia and Colonial Geographies of Race in the Americas," New Formations . 47 (Summer): 87-108.

Fellowships/Honors

Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship's Outstanding Research Award for Mentoring, Brown University, 2002

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant and Ford Foundation, Crossing Borders Initiative, Grant as a group participant in the "Cultures of the Americas, Narratives of Globalization" Research Group at University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, January-June, 1998

University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1993-1995

Affiliations

Latin American Studies Association, American Studies Association, and Modern Language Association