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  Maria Cotera
Associate Professor, and Director of Latina/o Studies (LS)

U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Latina/o Studies
Department of Women's Studies


Ph.D., Stanford, 2001


Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
3666 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.615.8867
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email: mcotera@umich.edu

Fields of Study: U.S./Third-World feminist theory; women of color intellectual geneologies; Latina feminism; comparative ethnic studies.
Secondary Fields of Study: American modernism, history of anthropology.

Department of Women's Studies Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/women/faculty/facbio.asp?ID=12

Publications:

Native Speakers: Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González and the Poetics of Culture (University of Texas Press, 2008).

“The Story of Her People: Ella Cara Deloria’s Decolonizing Methodology” in Out on Their Own Frontier: Women Historians and the Revisioning of the American West, Ed. Shirley Leckie and Nancy Parezo (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Editor and Introduction, Life Along the Border: A Landmark Tejana Thesis by  Jovita González (Corpus Christi: Texas A&M Press, 2007)

"Re/covering our History: Caballero and the Gendered Politics of Form," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicana/o Studies 32.2 (Fall 2007)

"'All My Relatives Are Noble:' Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily," in American Indian Quarterly,  Special Issue, Empowerment through Literature (Fall 2004)

"Jovita González and the Legacy of Borderlands Feminism," in Latina Legacies, ed. Vicki Ruíz (Oxford University Press, 2004)

"Engendering a 'Dialectics of Our America:' Jovita Gonzalez's Pluralist Dialogue as Feminist Testimonio," in Las Obreras: The Politics of Work and Family, ed. Vicki L. Ruiz (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center,2000)

"Refiguring the American Congo: Jovita González, John Gregory Bourke and the Battle Over Ethnohistorical Representations of the Borderlands," in Recovering a Mexican-American West, (Western American Literature 35.1, Special Issue, Spring 2000)

“Deconstructing the Corrido Hero: Caballero and its Gendered Critique of Nationalist Discourse” Mexican American Perspectives. Winter 1995.

Caballero by Jovita González and Eve Raleigh, Editor (with José Limón) (Texas A&M Press, 1995).





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