Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social

Way overdue here is congratulations to veteran Malcsista Rusty Barcelo, newly appointed Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota. Her office oversees Disability Services, Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action, the GLBT Programs Office, the Multicultural Center, and the Office for University Women.

After five years at the University of Washington, Rusty is returning to familiar territory. From 1996 to 2001, she served as Minnesota’s associate vice president for multicultural and academic affairs; two of those years, she also chaired the Chicano studies department on the Twin Cities campus. A grants program for collaborative multicultural projects was established in 2002 and named in her honor.

Here’s a link to more details.

Sixth National Conference, National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC) presents:
Arts! Culture! Leadership! Accíon!
October 11-15, El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

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Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco, Divagaciones bajo la Luna/Musing under the Moon: Voces e Imágenes de Lesbianas Dominicanas/Voices and Images of Dominican Lesbians (República Dominicana: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), 2006.

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Submission deadline: October 22, 2006
Call for Papers is now open!  Go here for submission info
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Dr. Linda Heidenreich, received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Washington State University, Pullman in Spring, 2006. Linda is cranking out publications as well: she has an essay in the forthcoming 6:1 fall issue of Chicana/Latina Studies, titled “Learning from the Death of Gwen Araujo?: Transphobic Racial Subordination and Queer Latina Survival in the Twenty-first Century.” She also has a book in the works titled History and Forgetfulness in an American County for the Chicana Matters Series (UT Press).

Members will receive the fall issue of Chicana/Latina Studies soon. If you haven’t paid up your membership, go here now to download and mail in the membership form. Membership fees are sliding scale, and in the words of Dra. Sandra Torres, the “best deal around in professional associations!”

Finally, kudos to Dr. Rocio Delgado, Assistant Professor of Education at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX who has finished her UT Austin dissertation (title?). She is beginning her second year at Trinity University.

Trinity is also fortunate to have recent hires Rosana Blanco-Cano (Ph.D. Tulane University) and Debra Ochoa (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin), joining the Department of Modern Languages. Rosana researches Spanish-American literature and culture, and Debra works on twentieth century Spanish Peninsular Literature/Film and Spanish Women Writers.

Best wishes to all these MALCSistas!

Submitted by Antonia Castaneda

Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies, Art & Director of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer. Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Starting July 1, 2007
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DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES
Anticipated Permanent Full-Time Position (Tenure-Track), Fall 2007-08
Assistant Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies (Social Sciences)
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Newly tenured Associate Professor Dionne Espinoza writes of her recent tenure decision at Cal State L.A. in the department of Chicano Studies. She is also Director of the Center for the Study of Genders & Sexualities at CSULA. She is also awaiting publication of her new book, co-edited with Lorena Oropeza, titled Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte, in the Hispanic Civil Rights Series of Arte Publico Press (forthcoming Nov 2006). Congrats Dionne!!

Across town at the University of LaVerne, Claudia Huiza is very excited about an upcoming artshow by Martin Durazo.  She writes that “Martin’s work is extremely relevant to the era we live in and offers a piercing commentary on human nature, our tendency to turn to harmful living in pursuit of an alternative spirituality, and explores themes such as perceptive manipulation and perceived control through organizational systems.”  The show runs from Sept 12 thru Oct 20 at Harris Art Gallery at the Univ of LaVerne.  You can also see Martin’s work at his website.