Calendar of Events and Deadlines
IPRH Events
Second Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture: “The Body in/as World History” (Antoinette Burton -- History/Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies) 
Date: September 27
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Opening Remarks: Lawrence B. Schook (Vice President for Research)
Moderator: Robert Warrior (American Indian Studies/English/History)
There will be a reception following the lecture.
About the Speaker:
Professor Burton is a historian of 19th and 20th century Britain and its empire, with a specialty in colonial India and an ongoing interest in Australasia and Africa. She has written on topics ranging from feminism and colonialism to the relationship of empire to the nation and the world. Women, gender, and sexuality have always been central to her research, much of which has been concerned with the role of Indian women in the imperial and postcolonial imagination. She has edited collections about politics, mobility, postcolonialism and empire and have frequently collaborated with Tony Ballantyne.
At Illinois Professor Burton teaches courses on modern British history and imperialism, gender and colonialism, autobiography and the archive, approaches and methods and world history. She is currently working on a comprehensive study ofempire on the ground in the 19th century. During the 2010-11 year, she was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Forthcoming publications include A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke University Press, spring 2012), Brown over Black: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (forthcoming, Three Essays Collective, India); and, with Tony Ballantyne, Empires and The Reach of the Global, 1875-1955 (forthcoming ,Harvard University Press, in simultaneous German translation; one in a six volume series on global history, edited by Akira Iriye and Emily Rosenberg).
IPRH Film Series – The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today
Date: October 6
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the documentary’s award-winning director, Jay Rosenstein (Journalism).
About the Director:
Jay Rosenstein is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary writer, producer, director, and editor whose documentaries have been broadcast nationally on PBS, including the series POV and Independent Lens, on the Independent Film Channel, and screened at film festivals worldwide including the Sundance Film Festival. His newest documentary, The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today, is the story of the Supreme Court case that started the separation of church and state in public schools. It has won a Peabody Award, two Regional Emmy Awards, and the Silver Gavel Award as the best non-fiction television program about law and legal issues in 2011 from the American Bar Association.
Jay is best known for his groundbreaking documentary In Whose Honor?, about the controversy over the use of Native American mascots in sports, which was broadcast on the PBS series POV in 1997, and continues to be one of the most-used educational films from New Day Films. Jay is also an associate professor in the College of Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
Jay Rosenstein won the 2011 IPRH Faculty Prize for Research in the Humanities for his work on this film. More information about this film and Professor Rosenstein’s other work can be found online at http://jayrosenstein.com/pages/lord.html.
Lecture:"What Happened to the First Emperor's Postmortem Spirit? Or Did He Have One? -- Rethinking the First Qin Emperor's Tomb and its Auxiliary Burial Pits" (Eugene Wang -- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University) 
Date: October 7
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH Building
Moderator: Gary Xu (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
About this Event:
Mysteries abound at the First Emperor’s (259-210 BCE) tomb. None of them is more mystifying than the curious fact that the deceased emperor appears to evince no interest in commanding his underground army. His terra-cotta soldiers face the east, while the bronze carriages, the emperor’s afterlife soul vehicle, head toward the west. Just as inexplicable is the fact that the terracotta soldiers are in life-size, while the carriages are in half-size. And what are the more recently excavated auxiliary pits at the periphery of the tomb all about—e.g. the pit with clay figures of bare upper-torsos, and the pit with stone armors without bodies? All the material evidence points to a peculiar third-century BCE conviction about the disposition of the afterlife “soul.” Did the First Emperor have a soul, and in what sense? What were the bronze soul-carriages doing there? How do those auxiliary pits serve the emperor in the afterlife world? Professor Wang’s lecture will unravel these mysteries.
About the Speaker:
A native of Jiangsu, China, Eugene Yuejin Wang studied at Fudan University in Shanghai (B.A. 1983; M.A. 1986), and subsequently at Harvard University (A.M. 1990; Ph.D. 1997). He was the Ittleson Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Visual Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1995-96) before joining the art history faculty at the University of Chicago in 1996. His teaching appointment at Harvard University began in 1997, and he became the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art in 2005.
He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and post-doctoral and research grants from the Getty Foundation.
His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005) has received the Academic Achievement Award in memory of the late Professor Nichijin Sakamoto, Rissho University, Japan. He is the art history associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (New York, 2004).
His thirty or so articles published in The Art Bulletin, Art History, Critical Inquiry, Res: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, Public Culture, and elsewhere, cover a wide range of subjects, including ancient bronze mirrors, Buddhist murals and sculptures, reliquaries, scroll paintings, calligraphy, woodblock prints, architecture, photography, and films. He has also translated Roland Barthes’ Fragments d’un discours amoureux into Chinese, and wrote the screenplay for a short film, Stony Touch, selected for screening in the 9th Hawaii International Film Festival.
Lecture: "Performing Neighborhoods: Creating Acts of Citizenship" (Teddy Cruz -- Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego) 
Date: October 13
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Moderator: Kevin Hamilton (Art & Design/New Media)
About this Event:
While in the last years, the global city became the primary site of economic consumption and display, local neighborhoods in the margins of such centers of economic power remained sites of cultural production. These are peripheral communities and neighborhoods where new economies are emerging and new social, cultural and environmental configurations are taking place as catalysts to produce a new collective imagination, alternative urban policies and more inclusive housing paradigms.
About the Speaker:
Teddy Cruz was born in Guatemala City. He obtained a Master in Design Studies at Harvard University in 1997 and established his research-based architecture practice in San Diego, California in 2000. He has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. In 1991, he received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and in 2005 he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize. His work has been profiled in important publications including The New York Times, Domus, and Harvard Design Magazine. In 2008, he represented the U.S. in the Venice Architecture Biennial and this year his work will be included in Small Scale, Big Change exhibition at MoMA. He is currently a professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego, where he co-founded CUE/Center for Urban Ecologies.
IPRH Collaborative Research Project -- Queer Performance Series
Lecture/Performance: "How to Wear a Beard: Reflections on a Life in the Sideshow, the Circus, and the Academy" (Jennifer Miller -- Playwright, Performer, and Director/Founder of Circus Amok) 
Date: October 25
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium
About the Event:
Two award-winning, experimental performance artists, Jennifer Miller and Carmelita Tropicana, will visit the University of Illinois campus during the next few weeks as part of a series on Queer Performance, sponsored by a variety of campus units. Combining wacky humor and extravagant spectacle, both performers are widely acclaimed for their roles in expanding the possibilities for using performance to explore the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and social justice. Miller is a renowned playwright, performance artist, and circus director, who has provided free political queer circus in New York City’s five boroughs for 20 years. Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana), a Cuban-born performance artist, playwright and actor, uses humor to tell unwritten histories from the point of view of woman, man, child and assorted animals. Their visits offer a rare opportunity for the Champaign-Urbana community to have a chance to engage these New York‐based performance artists in person.
Miller and Tropicana will each offer a free public lecture/performance, followed by discussion with the audience. Jennifer Miller will present “How to Wear a Beard: Reflections on a Life in the Sideshow, the Circus, and the Academy” on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Carmelita Tropicana’s presentation, “Ole/Ghost and Performance Art Manifesto,” will take place on Friday, November 4, 2011.
Co-sponsors of the Queer Performance Series include: Women’s Resources Center, LGBT Resource Center, La Casa Cultural Latina, Student Cultural Programming Fee Funds; the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts; the Collaborative Research Initiative of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; and the Departments of: Art & Design; Dance; Gender & Women’s Studies; English; Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Please contact event organizers Jennifer Monson (Professor, Department of Dance, jmonson@illinois.edu, 217-333-1010), Siobhan Somerville (Associate Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies, sbs@illinois.edu, 217-333-2990), and Rachel Storm (Program Coordinator, Women’s Resources Center, rstrom2@illinois.edu, 217-333-3137) for additional information about this event.
About the Speaker:
Jennifer Miller is a playwright, performer and the director and founder of Circus Amok, New York’s only one ring, no-animal queerly situated political circus spectacular. Shehas been working with alternative circus forms, theater, and dance, and for over twenty years. She is the recipient of the 2008 Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Her work with Circus Amok was awarded a "Bessie" (a New York Dance and Performance Award) in 1995 and an OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of a French documentary film, “Un Cirque a New York” 2002 and Brazilian documentary, “Juggling Politics” 2004. She has performed with Cathy Weis, Jeff Weis, Jenny Monson, John Jasperse,Johanna Boyce, Doug Elkins,and They Won’t Shut-up, among others.She had a seven year stint at Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore.She toured her solo shows Morphadyke and Free Toasters Everyday here and abroad. She is the author of Cracked Ice or The Jewels of the Forbidden Skates and The Golden Racket. She is an associate professor of performance at Pratt Institute.
Lecture: “’History Detectives’ and Humanities Directives” (Gwendolyn Wright -- Architecture, Columbia University; and co-host of the PBS series “History Detectives”) 
Date: November 2
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
About the Lecture:
Humanists emphasize the multiplicities of history, both different experiences of events in the past and the inevitable incompleteness of the sources we read in the present. We rely on factual evidence, using it to delve into varied interpretations. Given these predilections, most scholars have, with good reason, looked down on television's presentations of history with oversimplified narratives. Fortunately, humanistic scholarship has infiltrated the airwaves, at least on PBS. "History Detectives" is a program that shows how historians work: pursuing a variety of possible sources, discussing problems with colleagues in a range of fields, evaluating evidence that's often contradictory, challenging our own initial speculations and often refusing to give unequivocal answers. Surprisingly perhaps, having just finished our ninth season, it's become quite popular with a highly diverse audience. This lecture will explain the principles and format of the show, emphasizing connections with new directions in humanistic scholarship.
About the Speaker:
Gwendolyn Wright is Professor of Architecture in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, with joint appointments in the departments of art history and history. She received tenure in 1986, becoming the first tenured woman in the School. From 1988 to 1992, she was the director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. Professor Wright received her M.Arch .and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
Wright has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Ford Foundation and other institutions. In 1985 she was elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians which honors literary quality in America history writing.
Wright is the author or editor of six major books. Her most recent, USA (2008), is part of Reaktion Books’ international series, Modern Architectures in History, that presents the distinctive narratives of 25 different nations. Wright is also the author of The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (1991), Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1981 --- now in its 17th printing), and Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913 (1980). She is the editor of The Formation of National Collections of Art and Archaeology (1995) and The History of History in American Schools of Architecture, 1865-1965 (1990). Her scholarly articles have appeared in books and journals around the world. She focuses principally on the interconnections between architecture, urbanism and political culture in the late-19th and 20th centuries. Her special interests are the history and future of American housing; popular and professional “urban imaginaries”; and trans-nationalism, especially colonial and post-colonial design.
Since 2001 Wright has also been one of four hosts for the PBS television series, “History Detectives.” The program explains the processes, ambiguities and pleasures of historical research to a general audience --- including how to evaluate conflicting evidence and contrasting interpretations. Now the third most widely-viewed show on PBS, “History Detectives” has a contract for two more seasons.
A biography is available in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
IPRH Collaborative Research Project -- Queer Performance Series
Lecture/Performance: "Ole/Ghost and Performance Art Manifesto" (Carmelita Tropicana-- Playwright/Actor)
Date: November 4
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium
About the Event:
Two award-winning, experimental performance artists, Jennifer Miller and Carmelita Tropicana, will visit the University of Illinois campus during the next few weeks as part of a series on Queer Performance, sponsored by a variety of campus units. Combining wacky humor and extravagant spectacle, both performers are widely acclaimed for their roles in expanding the possibilities for using performance to explore the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and social justice. Miller is a renowned playwright, performance artist, and circus director, who has provided free political queer circus in New York City’s five boroughs for 20 years. Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana), a Cuban-born performance artist, playwright and actor, uses humor to tell unwritten histories from the point of view of woman, man, child and assorted animals. Their visits offer a rare opportunity for the Champaign-Urbana community to have a chance to engage these New York‐based performance artists in person.
Miller and Tropicana will each offer a free public lecture/performance, followed by discussion with the audience. Jennifer Miller will present “How to Wear a Beard: Reflections on a Life in the Sideshow, the Circus, and the Academy” on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Carmelita Tropicana’s presentation, “Ole/Ghost and Performance Art Manifesto,” will take place on Friday, November 4, 2011.
Co-sponsors of the Queer Performance Series include: Women’s Resources Center, LGBT Resource Center, La Casa Cultural Latina, Student Cultural Programming Fee Funds; the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts; the Collaborative Research Initiative of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; and the Departments of: Art & Design; Dance; Gender & Women’s Studies; English; Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Please contact event organizers Jennifer Monson (Professor, Department of Dance, jmonson@illinois.edu, 217-333-1010), Siobhan Somerville (Associate Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies, sbs@illinois.edu, 217-333-2990), and Rachel Storm (Program Coordinator, Women’s Resources Center, rstrom2@illinois.edu, 217-333-3137) for additional information about this event.
About the Speaker:
Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana) is a performance artist, playwright and actor. Troyano burst on New York’s downtown performing arts scene in the eighties with her alter ego, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and the irresistible archetypal Latin macho, Pingalito Betancourt. This was followed by performances as Hernando Cortez’s horse and La Cucaracha Martina, based on Tropicana’s childhood fairytales in Cuba. In Tropicana’s work, humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history. Her performances, plays and videos have been presented at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona, the Berlin International Film Festival, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Dance Theater Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum’s Kirk Douglas Theater, Performance Space 122 and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tropicana has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. In 1999, she received an Obie for sustained excellence in performance. She is the author of I, Carmelita Tropicana.
Lecture: “Game-Changer: Technology in Sports" (Rayvon Fouché -- History, UI)
Date: November 5
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Avenue, Chicago
Co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Chicago Humanities Festival
For program details and ticket information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website (www.chfestival.org).
About the Lecture:
How many football games have been decided through instant replay? How many world records were smashed when swimmers started wearing full-body suits? How much faster is tennis today than in the glory days of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe? We don’t always see them, but technological developments are everywhere in sports, and they continually change the games we love. Professor Fouché discusses his research on technology and athletics, and technology’s influence on the past, present, and future of sports.
About the Speaker:
Rayvon Fouché is an Associate Professor of History at UI. As a cultural historian of technological invention and innovation, Professor Fouché explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological design.
About the Chicago Humanities Festival:
The Chicago Humanities Festival's mission is to create opportunities for people of all ages to support, enjoy, and explore the humanities. We fulfill this mission through our annual festivals, the fall Chicago Humanities Festival and the spring Stages, Sights & Sounds, and by presenting programs throughout the year that encourage the study and enjoyment of the humanities.
The Chicago Humanities Festival is devoted to making the humanities a vital and vibrant ingredient of daily life. We believe that access to cultural, artistic and educational opportunities is a necessary element for a healthy and robust civic environment. Tickets for most fall Festival programs are $5 in advance, $10 at the door, and many programs are free of charge to students and teachers (with ID).
The Chicago Humanities Festival began in 1989 as a dream shared by a determined group of Chicago’s cultural leaders eager to extend the riches of the humanities to all who might benefit – that is, everyone.
Under the aegis of the Illinois Humanities Council and its then chairman, Richard J. Franke, the notion of a humanities day was proposed and then expanded into a festival. The first Chicago Humanities Festival, a one-day affair, was held on November 11, 1990 at the Art Institute of Chicago and Orchestra Hall, before an audience of 3,500 people. Eight thoughtful and accessible programs centered on the theme Expressions of Freedom, including a memorable keynote address by playwright Arthur Miller, and inaugurated one of Chicago's most culturally rich annual events. Founding co-sponsor institutions included the Art Institute, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera Chicago, and the University of Chicago.
Since that first year, some of the world's most exciting thinkers, artists, and performers have come to Chicago each fall for a festival that celebrates ideas in the context of civic life. Each festival brings together novelists, scholars, musicians, archaeologists, historians, artists, performers, playwrights, theologians, poets, architects, policy makers, and others – both established and emerging talents – to offer performances, screenings, exhibits, and discussions on a theme of universal interest, such as Love and Marriage, Crime and Punishment, Work and Play, Peace and War, and Thinking Big. Presented in partnership with some of Chicago’s premier cultural institutions, and produced in some of Chicago’s most remarkable public and performance spaces, the festival has become an annual highlight for thousands of people from Chicago and beyond.
IPRH State of the Arts Digital Humanities Lecture
" Merchants of Light, Depredators and Pioneers: I'll take my digital humanities with Bacon!" (John Unsworth--Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Brandeis University)
Date: March 2, 2012
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: IPRH (Humanities Lecture Hall) / 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana
About the Event:
John Unsworth will deliver a lecture with three parts: The first part has to do with a 2008 report on digital humanities centers, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources and written by Diane Zorich, an information management consultant for cultural heritage organizations. Her report divides digital humanities centers into two types—center‐focused and resource‐focused. It also presents a critique of the focus on individual projects that could be seen as implying an opposition between libraries and researchers. The second part of this talk tries to provide a very different way of looking at the relationship between librarians and researchers, by going back to a text that is sometimes considered to have first imagined the modern research university—The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon. The third part of the talk concerns the emergence of big data in the humanities in the last few years, and considers the implications of this emergence for scholarship in the humanities, for librarianship, and for the university of the 21st century.
About the Speaker:
In February of 2012, John Unsworth begins an appointment as the Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University. He moves to this post from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has been Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 2003 to 2012. In addition to being a Professor in GSLIS, at Illinois he also held appointments in the department of English and on the Library faculty; also, from 2008 to 2011, he served as Director of the Illinois Informatics Institute, a campus-wide organization that serves to coordinate and encourage informatics-related education and research. During the ten years before coming to Illinois, from 1993-2003, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and a faculty member in the English Department, at the University of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center. He chaired the national commission that produced Our Cultural Commonwealth, the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Science, on behalf of the American Council of Learned Societies, and he has supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities. He has also published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as co-directing one of nine national partnerships in the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, and securing grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. In 1990, at NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.
IPRH “Borders” Theme Lecture
“Virtual Divides: Biometrics, Borders and Bodies” (Javier Durán--Associate Professor of Spanish and Border Studies, University of Arizona)
Date: March 6, 2012
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Levis Faculty Center (Third Floor) / 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
Reception following lecture -- Levis Reading Room, 9:00-10:30 p.m.
About the Event:
This lecture will analyze the reconfiguration of state power into new immaterial forms such as virtual and biometric borders, and the impact of this reconfiguration in the cultural representation of migrant subjects and transborder communities. It attempts to elucidate what happens when security mutates from an abstract notion to a series of practices that become part of the nation-state’s dominant discourse. Drawing from what Muller (2008) calls the ‘dispositif of security,’ the first part discusses some interconnections between the biometric state, the culture of securitization and the growing perception that borders are becoming quasi-permanent states of exception. The second part establishes connecting lines between visual securitization images and other recent representations of the biometric border in popular film and narrative using a detailed discussion of the film Sleep Dealer (2008) as a primary example of these interconnections.
About the Speaker:
Javier D. Durán, Associate Professor of Spanish and Border Studies, is a specialist in cultural and literary studies along the U.S.-Mexico border. He is a native of the Arizona-Sonora desert region. Dr. Durán received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, an M.A. in Latin American Studies, and a B.S. in Plant Sciences also from the U of Arizona.
Dr. Durán currently directs Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, a new, interdisciplinary research center in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (confluencenter.arizona.edu). His areas of teaching and research include U.S.-Mexican border studies, Latin American women writers, Mexican literature and culture, and Chicana/Chicano-Latina/Latino narrative. He has received several research grants from state and federal agencies to conduct research and implement institutional programs during his career. He is the author of the book José Revueltas. Una poética de la disidencia, published by the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, five co-edited books on Cultural Studies, and numerous articles on literary and cultural themes. He has been editorial collaborator and reviewer for journals such as PMLA, Chasqui, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, South Eastern Latin Americanist, and La Palabra y el Hombre.
Dr. Durán has taught at Michigan State University, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico, as well as Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. He holds memberships in the Modern Language Association, National Chicano Studies Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and he has also been an advisor to the Brazilian Association of American Studies. He is one of the founding members of the MLA Discussion Group on Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies and he is past President of the Association for Borderland Studies, the leading international organization in the study of border issues. Dr. Durán is currently working on two book length manuscripts dealing with border literature and culture. The first is entitled Border Voices: Memory and Self-Representation in Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Border Writing, and the second Borders, Aliens and Migrants: Citizenship, Human Rights, and the Bionetwork States. He is also investigating and teaching the connections between globalization, transnational identities and the Mexican and Latin American diasporas.
