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JOSÉ ARANDA

Aranda Ph.D, Brown University
Associate Professor of English

Office: Herring Hall 229
Phone: 713-348-2447
Email: aranda@rice.edu


 
 

Professor Aranda has written articles on early U.S. criticism, 19th-century Mexican American literature, and the future of Chicano/a studies. His first book, When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America (2003), is available from the University of Arizona Press. He has also begun work on his next book, tentatively titled The Places of Modernity in Mexican American Literature, 1848–1960. Nationally, he sits on the board of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. He is an active member of the MLA Chicana and Chicano Literature Division. He is a founding member of Chicano Leadership Rice, an organization made up of faculty and staff at Rice University interested in the advancement of Chicano and Latino issues on campus and throughout the city. He teaches courses in Chicano/a literature and 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature.