Faculty
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Robert McKee Irwin
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Research Areas
Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies, with emphasis on the
19th and early 20th centuries, questions of gender and sexuality, and the
cultural production of the US-Mexican borderlands
Current Projects
- New book, Bandits, Captives, Heroines and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwestern Borderlands, due out in spring of 2007 (University of Minnesota Press, Cultural Studies of the Americas series
- Forthcoming book, Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a key word reference with definitions by key figures in Latin American Cultural Studies (Jesús Martín Barbero, Debra Castillo, Román de la Campa, George Yúdice, Ileana Rodríguez, among many others). Coedited with Mínica Szurmuk.
- Research on Mexico's cultural industries including film and comics
Recent Publications
Book: Mexican
Masculinities (
Co-edited anthologies: The
Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in
Selected articles:
- "Culture and Society: Latin America Since 1900" in Blackwell Companion to Latin American History (Thomas Holloway, ed.)
- "Memín Pinguín, Rumba and Racism: Afro Mexicans in Classic Comics and Film" in Hemisphere and Nation: American Literary and Cultural Geographies (Caroline Levander and Robert Levine, eds.)
- "Lo que comparte el positivismo con el modernismo mexicano: el hermafrodismo, la bestialidad y la necrofilia" in Signos Literarios
- "The Legend of Lola Casanova: On the Borders of Border Studies" in Aztlán
- "Las Inseparables y la prehistoria del lesbianismo mexicano" in Debate Feminista
- "Ramona and Postnationalist American Studies" in American Quarterly
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Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints
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Mexican Masculinities
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Famous 41
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Hispanisms and Homosexualities
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