María Christina Pons: Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies
contact information: 7355 Bunche, (310) 206-3568, mcpons@ucla.edu
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Areas of Interest
Prof. Pons' teaching and research interests focus on the intersections of Latin American Literature and culture, and Chicano Studies, and the new research of class, gender, and race in the cultural symbolic production. Her research agenda has focused primarily on alternative discourses to the hegemonic social order, including research on the contemporary historical novel in Latin America, as well as counterhegemonic narratives within the context of Southern Cone military dictatorships. Currently she is developing a comparative study analyzing the notion of chaos in different manifestations of contemporary Latin American and Chicana/o literary production.
Education
[Ph.D., Latin American Literature, University of Southern California, 1995.]
[M.A., Latin American Literature, University of Alberta, Canada, 1990.]
[Dissertation: Memorias del olvido. La novela historica latinoamericana de fines del siglo XX.]
Awards
[ The Marta Feuchtwanger Merit Award for her dissertation. University of Southern California, 1993-94.]
[The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. UCLA (1995-1997).]
Recent Publications
Más allá de las fronteras del lenguaje. Un análisis crítico de Respiración artificial. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998.
Memorias del olvido. Del Paso, García Márquez, Saer y la novela histórica de fines del siglo XX. México, Siglo XXI, 1996.
In preparation, as editor and author: Neoliberalismo y literatura, which deals with the relationship between neoliberalism, as the prevailing hegemonic mode of production and ideology, and its effects on the end of XXth century literary production in selected Latin American Countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela).
Articles/ Chapters
"The Cannibalism of History: The Historical Representation of an Absent Other in El entenado by Juan José Saer." Article prepared for the collective volume edited by R. Young, et al. Latin American Postmodernism, Studies in Postmodernism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 155-174.
"Noticias del Imperio: entre una imaginación delirante y los desvarios de la historia." Hispamérica 69 (1994): 97-108.
"Compromiso político y ficción en 'Segunda Vez' y 'Apocalipsis de Solentiname' de Julio Cortázar". Revista Mexicana de Sociología (UNAM) 4 (1992): 183-203.
"Caos: génesis o apocalipsis. Una lectura de Los Rituales del caos de Carlos Monsiváis". Article to be published in the collective volume Memorias de las IV Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. 1995.
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Courses
Chicano Studies 10A,"
Introduction to Chicano Life and Culture." ( Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2004 )
Chicano Studies 19,"
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars Chicano 19, seminar 1: Gender and Sexuality in Mesomerica." ( Spring 2004 )
Chicano Studies 89,"
Honors Seminars Chicano 89, seminar 1: Honors Seminar for Chicano 10A, Lecture 1." ( Fall 2004 )
Chicano Studies 99,"
Student Research Program." ( Summer 2006 )
Chicano Studies 101,"
Theoretical Concepts in Chicana and Chicano Studies." ( Spring 2003 )
Chicano Studies 111,"
Chicana/Chicano and Latina/Latino Intellectual Traditions." ( Fall 1999, Spring 2002, Winter 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007 )
Chicano Studies 141,"
Chicana and Latin American Women's Narrative." ( Spring 2002, Fall 2005 )
Chicano Studies 142,"
Mesoamerican Literature." (
Winter 2000, Winter 2001, Winter 2002, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Winter 2005, Spring 2006, Winter 2008 )
Chicano Studies 163,"
Bilingual Advantage: Spanish Language Topics on Chicana/Chicano and Latin American Cultures." ( Winter 2004, Winter 2005 )
Chicano Studies 169,"
Representations
of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas." ( Fall 1999, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Winter 2006, Fall 2007 )
Chicano Studies 197A,"
Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies: The bilingual Advantage: Spanish Language: Topics on Chicana/o and Latin American Cultures." ( Spring 2000 )
Chicano Studies 197C,"
Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano 197C: Spanish Language, Communication, and the Media." ( Winter 1999 )
Chicano Studies 197D,"
Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano 197D: Indigenous Figure and Image in Latin American Discourse." ( Fall 1998 )
Chicano Studies 197E,"
Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano 197E: Latin American Background for Chicana/o Culture." ( Fall 1998 )
Chicano Studies 199-18,"
Independent Studies." ( Fall 2001 )
Chicano Studies 199-23,"
Independent Studies." ( Fall 2001 )
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