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Laura Padilla

Assistant Professor

I research U.S. Southwestern literature, with a focus on works by Mexican Americans in New Mexico. My work examines the ways in which 20th century New Mexico Hispanos engaged with the images produced of them by Modernist writers in Taos and Santa Fe. I work from Critical Regionalist perspective, while I also draw on postmodern and postcolonial theory. I teach classes on Chicano Movement Literature, NativeAmerican Literature, and Borderlands Theory.

CV

Regular Classes

Introduction to Mexican-American Literature
The Mexican Land Grant in Western American Literature

Education

    B.A. Reed College, 1996
    M.A. Penn State, 1999
    Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 2006

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