Cuauhtemoc Mexica

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Arizona State University, 2015-2018

Contact Information

Fields of Interest

20th Century Border Studies in Literature/Film/Arts Chicana/o Studies Film/Cinema Global and Transnational Studies Indigeneity and Nationalisms Latin American Latino/a Studies Postcolonial Spanish Studies of Violence

Biography

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 2015

Dissertation: "Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo Antonio Parra."

My research and scholarly production explores and examines borderland narratives from an interdisciplinary perspective intent on illuminating the reciprocity between literature, film, cultural studies, and history. Moreover, my research supports the critique, and reclamation of silenced historical, cultural, and social spaces.

Research

Selected Research

Cuauhtemoc Mexica. "Pariahs, Tricksters, and the Subversion of Modernity: The Decolonial Borderland Narratives of Cormac McCarthy and Eduardo Antonio Parra." Diss., 2015.
Adviser: Cynthia Steele

Courses Taught

Additional Courses

Course: C LIT 240: Writing In Comparative Literature F

Course Title: Narco Narratives in Literature and Film

Course Description
Trafficking in drugs, weapons, women and labor, and violence in the form of serial murder of women, drug shoot-outs and mutilations, has proliferated in the northern border region of Mexico over the past decade. A seminal connection this class will emphasize is the complicity between the narco-industry, corrupt governance, and how these phenomena are encouraged by the international growth of the drug and sex industry, along with weak police and judicial systems and generalized corruption in Mexico, as well as denials of responsibility in the U.S. This context foreshadows the issues that have augmented Mexico’s current crises with violence vis-à-vis the government and the cartels.

Affiliations

Home Department

Cinema & Media Studies

Professional Affiliations

Association for Borderlands Studies, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Latin American Studies Association, Modern Language Association