Department of Language and Literature
Sam Fore Hall 201B
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
+1 361-593-2514
Education
- Ph.D. University of California San Diego June 2021 Literature
- M.A. University of California San Diego March 2018 Literature
- B.A. University of California San Diego June 2013 Literature - Honors: Highest Distinction
Research and Teaching Interests
- Contemporary Immigration Issues
- Anti-Racism
- Latinx Cultural Production
- Chicanx Cultural Production
- Intersectional Frameworks
- Climate Crisis and Environmental Racism
- British Poetics and Aesthetics
- American Poetics and Aesthetics
- Captive and Prison Narratives
- Post-Colonialism
Publications
- Cortes, L.A. (2021). The Open Graves of Latina/os: Representations of a Lationx Horror in Pinto Poetics, Border Gothic, and Homeless Encampments in Los Angeles. UC San Diego. ProQuest ID: Cortes_ucsd_ 0033D_20274. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5q301kz. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b07s8hw
- “Our Absence: The Missing Latinx Students in the Selective University.” Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom. (Accepted & Under Contract)
- "Engraved Feminine Images.” The New Americanist Journal. (Submitted)
- “The Betrayals of Passing.” Modernism and Literature. (Submitted)
- “Jimmy Santiago Baca. The Misfits.” The Journal of South Texas. (Accepted and Under Contract)
Presentations
National Refereed
- “I Must Not Speak: The Poetics of Living-Entombment,” at the XVII Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference: The Right to Write, Speak and Be in Times of Banning, Censorship and Persecution on April 26th - 27th, 2024 (Forthcoming)
- “as i am not free: Resisting Legal Erasure,” at the 38th annual conference for The Society for the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) on April 11th - 14th, 2024 (Forthcoming)
- “The Killing Fields in America’s Backyard,” at the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) Conference on Hemispheric Horizons: Publics, Power, and Place in the Americas on March 15th - 16th, 2024 (Forthcoming)
- “In the Flesh: Ritualized Mortification in American Prisons,” at the Southern Humanities Conference, on February 1st - 4th 2024 (Forthcoming)
- "Crossing Over: The Life and Death of the Narrative in Tattooed Soldier,” at the 37th annual conference for The Society for the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) on April 20th - 23rd, 2023
- “Fosas Comunes: Representations of Mass Graves in Tattooed Soldier,” at the 50th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture on February 23rd - 25th, 2023
- “Legal Living-Entombment,” at the 52nd Annual Conference of the College English Association on March 30th - April 1st, 2023
- “El Infierno: The Necropolitics of the U.S.-Mexico Border” at the 34th annual conference for The Society for the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) on April 8th - 10th, 2021 & the 17th annual Interdisciplinary conference for the Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on April 9th - 10th, 2021
State Refereed
- “Murderous Myths: Talking Dead in The River Flows North, Tattooed Soldier and the poetry of Judy Lucero,” at the Southern Humanities Conference on January 29th, 2023
Local Nonrefereed
- “Who May Live, And Who Must Die: the Poetics of Raulrsalinas,” Keynote Address at the 28th Sigma Delta Pi Student Symposium on November 14th, 2023
- “Getting Students to Read,” Keynote Address and Facilitator at the Center for Teaching Effectiveness on October 5th, 2023
- “Voices Beyond The Grave,” Keynote Address at the Center for Teaching Effectiveness on March 2nd, 2023
- “Entombed Voices,” Keynote Address at the 27th Sigma Delta Pi Student Symposium on November 17th, 2022
