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David Vázquez, Mentor
English

Margarita Wickham , McNair Scholar

David Vázquez joined the UO English faculty in 2003 and received a new faculty award during his first year. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is interested in the dialectical relationships between autobiographical forms of narration and social movements and notes that his research focuses on the Latino/a cultural nationalist movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In addition to revising his dissertation for publication, Prof. Vázquez has several works forthcoming: “I Can't Be Me Without My People: Julia Alvarez and the Postmodern Personal Narrative,” forthcoming in Latino Studies, “An Epistemology of Ignorance: Hierarchy, Exclusion, and the Failure of Multiculturalism in the Modern Library Top 100” in Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas, Evans-Braziel and Young, eds., Mercer University Press.