I’ve spent the morning giving my talk –which I’m going to post here as soon as I figure out how to put it up– and attending sessions at NACCS. My first response to my first experience attending this conference is WOW — there are a lot of Chicanos and Chicanas here. Everyone is friendly and…
Month: March 2011
Abstracted
[In celebration of my dissertation being accepted today by my university’s library, I’m put up its abstract. Don’t worry, I’m probably not going to post the whole thing.] Title: ”Splitting Aztlán: American Resistance and Chicana Visions of a Radical Utopia” My dissertation researches American resistance movements, focusing on nineteenth-century Transcendentalism and the Chicano/a movements of the…
Getting Ready For NACCS
I’m giving a paper for the National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies conference. This will be my first time attending. The conference is being held in Pasadena this year. Even though I could probably rent a car and drive there and back each day, I decided to pay to stay at the hotel. Part of…
Having just finished my dissertation…
God, I can’t tell you how weird it is to write that. It’s been this guilty millstone around my neck for so long, anytime I’d start to enjoy or work on something I’d think “but shouldn’t I be writing my dissertation?” And now it’s over. “Splitting Aztlán: American Resistance and Chicana Visions of a Radical…