Office: Keezell 221
Phone: 540-568-6134
Email: faganae@jmu.edu
Office Hours: MWF 11:15am-12:15pm
Courses: Spring 2013
GEng 260: Survey of African American Literature (with Mary Thompson and Joe Carson)
Eng 360: Introduction to Ethnic American Literature. Latina/o Voices
Eng 608: Textuality. The Unfinished American Novel
Specialization:
20th Century U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Latina/o Literature, Contemporary
American Literature, Book History and Textual Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
B.A., Saint Xavier University
Publications:
“Negotiating Language: Latino/a Glossaries, Translations, and Codeswitching.”
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature (under contract,
estimated publication 2012).
"'Damaged Pieces’: Embracing Border Textuality in Revisions
of Ana
Castillo’s Sapagonia." Forthcoming in MELUS.
“Looking Into a Speaking Mirror: Politics, Interpretation, and the English Translation of
One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Journal of the Midwest Modern
Language Association 41.1 (2008): 46-55.
Recent Presentations:
“‘La vida es el honor y el recuerdo’: Oscar Zeta Acosta and
Paratextual Survival.”
LERMA: Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur
le Monde
Anglophone International Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and
Publishing. March
23-24, 2012, Aix-en-Provence, France.
“‘The Gloss Indeed Destroys the Text’ : Exploring the Role of the
Glossary in
Latina/o Texts.” Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, December
27-30, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.
“The Rhetoric of Italics: Textual Representations of Spanish in the
Works of Julia
Alvarez and Junot Díaz.” Northeast Modern Language
Association
Annual Conference, February 26-March 1, 2009, Boston, MA.
Research:
“Writing in the Margins: Marginalia in The House on Mango Street” (article in progress)
“La vida es el honor y el recuerdo: Oscar Zeta Acosta and Paratextual Survival” (article
in progress)
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