E-mail this pageEnglish Faculty - Jose L. Torres-Padilla
Professor
Education
- Ph.D., University of Southern California (1994)
- M.A., University of Southern California
- M.F.A., Columbia University
- B.A., Vassar College
Teaching Areas
- American Literature; U.S. Latino/a and Ethnic Literatures
- Creative Writing
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Literary Theory
Research and Publications
- Books
- The Family Terrorist and Other Stories, Arte Publico Press, 2008.
- Writing Off The Hyphe: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
- Co-Edited with Carmen Haydee Rivera, U. of Washington Press, 2008.
- Essays
- "When Hybridity Doesn't Resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing." In Complicating Constructions:
- Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. David Goldstein-Shirley and Audrey Thacker, Editors.U. of Washington Press, 2007. 290-307.
- "Death to the Originary Narrative! or Insurgent Multiculturalism and Teaching Multiethnic Literature."
- MELUS,30.2 (Summer, 2005).
- "Confronting the 'Screaming Baboon': Notes on Race, Literature and Pedagogy." In Race and the College Classroom Rutgers University Press, 2002: 213-225.
- "When 'I' Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Writers."Centro: The Journal of
- the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. 14.2 Fall, 2002: 181-197.
Awards
- CCCC Scholars for the Dream Award
- Grant from Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project
Contact Jose Torres-Padilla
Office: Champlain Valley Hall 212
Phone: (518) 564-2413
E-mail: torresjl@plattsburgh.edu