 Associate Professor of English
Office: Hellems 116 Telephone: 303-735-6990 E-mail: John-Michael.Rivera@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Creative non-fiction, cross-genre studies, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American ethnic literature; poetry; cultural studies; studies of the avant garde
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2000
M.A., University of Houston, 1996
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1992
Publications
Books
The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture. New York Univ. Press, 2006
Ed., co-translator, and critical introduction, Lorenzo de Zavala, Journey to the United States of America. Arte Público Press, 2006. Selections reprinted in The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 324-55
Ed. and critical introduction, Miguel Antonio Otero, The Real Billy the Kid with New Light on The Lincoln County War. Arte Público Press, 1998
Essays
“Recovering the West.” Healing the West. Ed. Patricia Limerick. Arizona Univ. Press, forthcoming
"The Archive as Specter." In "The Specter of the Archive," special issue of English Language Notes, ed. John-Michael Rivera, 43.1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 1-5
“‘A Complete Though Blood Stained Victory’: Lorenzo De Zavala and the Transnational Paradoxes of Colonialism.” American Literary History 18 (2006): 427-445“'La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra': Landscapes, Mexicans, and the Browning of America.” Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies 30 (2005): 123-49
“Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question.” Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies. Ed. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Duke Univ. Press, 2004, 251-70
Critical Introduction, Emma Tenayuca’s “The Mexican Question in the Southwest.” Recovered and published for the first time. Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States. Ed. Nicolas Kanellos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002: 156-63
Critical Introduction, Miguel Antonio Otero, "The Real Billy the Kid with New Light on The Lincoln County War." Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States. Ed. Nicolas Kanellos. Oxford Univ. Press, 2002, 120-23
"Miguel Antonio Otero, Billy the Kid's Body and the Fight for New Mexican Manhood." Western American Literature 35 (2000): 47-57
Biographical essays on Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Bartholomew de Las Casas in the Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale Publishing, 1995
Creative Work Published in
Palabra
sienwerden
Eclectic Magazine
Selected honors and awards
Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies for The Emergence of Mexican America, Western Literature Association, 2007
Kayden Book Prize (honorable mention) for The Emergence of Mexican America, CU Boulder, 2007
Summerlee Foundation Research Grant in Texas History, 2004-2005
Junior Faculty Development Award, CU Boulder, 2003
IMPART (Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching) Award, CU Boulder, 2002
Research Grant, the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, 2000-2001
Directorships
Director, El Laboratorio: Thinking En Publico, a center for the Latino literary arts presented by the Lab at Belmar
Current projects
amatl, an encyclopaedia in part (Creative)
Clock Works (Creative)