Interests and Information
Latina/o literature(s), culture(s), and theory
Late-eighteenth to late-twentieth century "american" (U.S.) literature
Construction of ethnicity in literature of
the U.S.
Transcultural studies of Anglo, Latina/o, African American, Native
American, and Asian American literatures and historical experiences
Visual studies, typology, and the construction of identity
Narrative, photography, and film
Gender, performance, and queer studies
(Hire Date:
1999)
Director of Latina/o Studies at UNC
Ph. D., Harvard University, June 1997
(English and American Literature)
M.A., Harvard University, 1988
(English and American Literature)
B.A., Brown University, 1986
Summa Cum Laude
(Double concentration in American literature and Hispanic Studies)
deguzman@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4031
Associate Professor. Tenured 2005. University Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Spring 2005.
Director of Latina/o Studies, UNC - Chapel Hill, April 2004 onwards
Book manuscripts:
Buenas Noches, "American" Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (in process)
Articles/Essays:
Essay on the Latina/o Atlantic for the book Contested Contours: Essays on Latina/o Autobiography, edited by Inmaculada Lara Bonilla and Silvio Torres-Saillant (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Essay entitled "Hemingway in the Dirt: A Continuation of Hemingway in the Dirt: Spanish Earth and the Ingestion of Authenticity" for a volume of new scholarship on Hemingway, ed. Carl Eby (Kent State University Press), Fall 2008 - Spring 2009.
Article entitled "The Photographic Thought of Latina/o Literature and Cultural Critique," selected from among "Elective Affinities" University of Pennsylvania conference proceedings, to be published in the international journal Word & Image (Summer 2008).
Essay entitled "Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas's 'Wrecks'" for New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literature, ed. Richard Pérez and Lyn DiIorio Sandin (Palgrave, 2007).
Article entitled "Night Becomes 'Latina': Mariana Romo-Carmona's Living at Night and the Tactics of Abjection," in Centro: Journal at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY, Spring 2007.
Essay entitled "Attributing the Substance of Collaboration as Michael Field," in Michael Field and Their World, ed. Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson (High Wycombe, UK: The Rivendale Press, 2007).
Article entitled "La histórica noche de deseo: recuperando una comunidad "queer" en El día de la luna de Graciela Limón," in Revista Iberoamericana, special issue edited by Frances Aparicio and Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Fall 2005.
Article entitled "The Already Browned Skin of 'American' Modernism: Rane Arroyo's Pale Ramón," in Midwestern Miscellany, a biannual journal from The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (Michigan State University), ed. Bill Barillas, Fall 2004. To be republished in Interior Borderlands, ed. Bill Barillas (University of Illinois Press, 2008).
Article entitled "Cosmetizing the American Dream in South Side Chicago: Ana Castillo's 'La Miss Rose,'" in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Fall 2003.
Essay entitled "X-ing the Flag," in Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, ed. Charles H. Rowell, managing ed. Ginger Thornton. For special issue (Winter 2001) devoted to "Southern Writers on the Confederate Flag," Johns Hopkins University Press.
Essay entitled "Trafficking in the Figure of the Latino," in the anthology Trickster Lives, ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Georgia Press, January 2001.
Essay entitled "Terrorism as Terrorific Mimesis in Floyd Salas's State of Emergency (1996)" in the anthology Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, ed. Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Purdue University Press, Spring 1999.
Essay entitled "Consolidating Anglo-American Imperial Identity around the Spanish-American War (1898)" in the anthology Race and the Invention of Modern American Nationalism, ed. Reynolds J. Scott-Childress (Department of History, University of Maryland), Garland Press, 1999.
Essay co-written with Professor Debbie López entitled "Algebra of Twisted Figures: Transvaluation in Martin Eden," in Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer, ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman from UTSA, San Antonio and Sara S. Hodson, Huntington Library, 1999.
Essay entitled "Volatilizing Partnership Ltd: Partnership Unlimited," co-authored with Jill Casid in The CEPA Journal, September 2000, ed. Grant Kester. Published by CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Photo-essay co-written and produced with Jill Casid entitled "Soul of Mannequin Under Capitalism," in IRIS: A Journal About Women, No. 40 Spring 2000, pp. 25-27, the feminist journal of The University of Virginia.
Photo-essay co-written and produced with Jill Casid (SPIR: Conceptual Photography) entitled "Light Reflections in/on/against Claude Monet's La Japonaise," accepted by Eileen Boris for publication by IRIS, the feminist journal of The University of Virginia. One of SPIR's images, Tango of the Dolls in the Deep #14, was chosen for the magazine cover, Spring 1999.
Photo-essay co-written and produced with Jill Casid entitled "The André-Casid- Encarnación-McClanan-Sánchez Family; or, An Outdoor Conversation Piece, Public Landing, Winthrop, MA, Spring 1997 Art Journal special issue edited by Grant Kester on "the relevance and implications of 18th-century European aesthetic philosophy for contemporary debates in culture and the arts."
Book reviews:
Book review of Junot Díaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for The Oscholars, Vol. V., No. 1, Issue no. 44: February/March 2008 (electronic journal on research and cultural production about Oscar Wilde). Website for that review: http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Forty-four/Critic/critic.htm#mdg.
Book review of Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies, ed. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn (Duke University Press, 2004) in Mississippi Quarterly 59: 3–4, pp. 652–56, Spring 2008.
Book review of Alicia Arrizon's Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999) in Hispanofila (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Chapel Hill, 2001).
Book review of Emma Perez's The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999) in Hispanofila (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Chapel Hill, 2001).
Book and/or journal covers by María DeGuzmán, Camera Query:
For poet Glenn Sheldon's book Bird Scarer (Cervena Barva Press, 2008); Bernadette Calafell's Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (Peter Lang Publishing, 2008); Michael Field and Their World, ed. Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson (Rivendale Press, 2007); Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives, ed. Lowell Gallagher, Frederick S. Roden, and Patricia Juliana Smith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); and Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing (2004).
Author photos by María DeGuzmán, Camera Query:
For Cecile Pineda for the back cover of her re-issued novel Frieze (San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2007).
If you would like a photo-based cover image for your book or an author photo of yourself, please contact me at mdeguzman@earthlink.net.
Informational Links:
UNC-CH Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers' Series
Latina/o Minor in the English Department
If you wish to read more about SPIR (Jill Casid & María DeGuzmán), take a look at the following review, for example: http://indyweek.com/durham/20002-09-25/ae2.html