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One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

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Robert McKee Irwin

Chancellor's Fellow
Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., New York University

Email: rmirwin@ucdavis.edu
Office: 603 Sproul Hall
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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 (Minnesota, 2003)

Co-edited anthologies: The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 (Palgrave, 2003); Hispanisms and Homosexualities (Duke, 1998)

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
 Mexican Masculinities
 Famous 41
 Hispanisms and Homosexualities
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