Associate Professor of Borderlands Lit
As part of a writing project tentatively titled “The Search for Utopia in the (Post) Modern World” I travelled to Thailand to spend a week volunteering at the Elephant Sanctuary. This is part of my project on utopian spaces…still very much in process. WF Thailand https://www.wfft.org/
My interview with Doug Gordon, host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s BETA, aired Saturday, April 7th. The interview, titled “Breaking Bad Never Had Trouble Hooking Viewers” is just over 16 minutes long and was produced by Adam Friedrich. It’s based on my essay titled “Negro y Azul: The Narcocorrido Goes Gothic,” which was published in 2016 in … Continue reading NPR Interview (Beta)
A while back, I had the opportunity to visit with Texas author Larry McMurtry and his writing partner Diana Ossana at his home in Archer City, Texas. McMurtry’s work has been hugely instrumental to my own writing…what an awesome couple of days! I wrote the short article “Larry McMurtry and the Search for an Old … Continue reading Two days with Larry McMurtry
Cordelia Barrera 