I completed my PhD at The University of Texas, San Antonio in Latinx literatures, where my work concentrated on what I call “The Bordered Frontier,” or how the border and frontier in American mythology and imaginary are mutually-reinforcing. My dissertation is titled Border Places, Frontier Spaces: Deconstructing an Ideology of the Southwest. My writing and teaching continues to focus on the American Southwest, U.S border theory, third space feminist theory, and ecocriticism. For years, I contributed movie reviews to the borderlands journal LareDOS, and have published in The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Western American Literature, Chicana/Latina Studies (The Journal of MALCS); I’ve published scholarly book chapters and essays in various venues. I have a BA in Anthropology with a minor in Journalism from the UT Austin, an MA in English from Texas A & M International U, and a Ph.D. with a concentration in Latinx Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
My writing encompasses literature, ideas, and theories that help us understand how to make the world a better place (for all creatures, not just human) by acknowledging our deep-seated relationships to the landscapes we inhabit and which shape our identities. Integrating ourselves more fully into what I call “landscapes of memory” coheres human experience and compels us to act in tandem with our moral obligations toward the spaces and places we call home.
Caprock Canyon, TX Skube at Yakima Pride
2019Kona, HI Wildlife Friends,
ThailandPacific Crest Trail, WA Coi Coi in first Yakima Sun