Selfa A. Chew-Meléndez 4949 Guadalupe Dr. El Paso, TX 79904 915 373 6692 skype: selfa.chew
[email protected]
EDUCATION Philosophy Doctor
2010
University of Texas at El Paso Borderlands History Dissertation: The Removal of Japanese and Japanese Mexicans from the United States/Mexico Borderlands During World War II 2006 2004
Master of Arts
University of Texas at El Paso History 2004
Master of Fine Arts
University of Texas at El Paso Creative Writing Bachelor of Arts
1985
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales Communication Sciences 2011
Alternative Teaching Certification
University of Texas at El Paso All courses completed 2010
Certificate of College Teaching
University of Texas at El Paso Doctoral Student
(Generation 2013-2018)
University of Texas at El Paso Department of Education: Teaching Learning and Culture Program.
EXPERIENCE Interim Director African American Studies Program
2015-2016
University of Texas at El Paso Lecturer Visiting Assistant Professor
2007 to 2014 2015 – Present
University of Texas at El Paso Department of History History of the United States from 1865 History of the United States until 1865 Borderlands History Graduate Seminar History of Spain (Study Abroad course in Andalusia) History of Peru (Study Abroad course in Peru)
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Afro-Mexico: A History of Race and Gender o Cross-listed with African American Studies, Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies. Contemporary Mexican History Women in Latin America Asian Diaspora in Latin America Independent Reading (Fall 2015, Spring 2012) Independent Research (Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013)
Lecturer
December 2010 to Present
University of Texas at El Paso African American Studies Program African American Womanists Theories of African American Studies Introduction to African American History Black Women in History Black Feminists in the United States and Latin America Black Panther Party Independent Reading (Fall 2016) Race, Identity and Culture o Cross-listed with Anthropology, Sociology, and Communication Sciences.
Lecturer
Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
University of Texas at El Paso Latin American Studies Las Américas LABS 3300 Contemporary Latin American Issues LABS 5302
Lecturer
Fall 2013 – Fall 2014
New Mexico State University Department of History Afro-American History II, HIST 362, On-line course
Visiting Instructor
August 2008 to May 2009
University of Saint Lawrence Department of Global Studies: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture La Frontera: The Borderlands Warriors of the West: Buffalo Soldiers, Native Ame ricans and the Effects of Colonization. Lecturer
Fall 2006
University of Texas at El Paso Department of Languages and Linguistics : Spanish American Literature from Modernism Spanish as Second Language Coordinator
2002 to 2012
University of Texas at El Paso Department of Languages and Linguistics: Annual Contemporary Mexican Literature Conference Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contempor ánea/Journal of Contemporary Mexican Literature Lecturer
Spring 2004
El Paso Community College
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Foreign Language Department
Spanish as Second Language for Non Native Speakers
RESEARCH AREAS Historical studies of race, gender, sexuality and class in the context of diasporic processes.
PUBLICATIONS ACADEMIC
Uprooting Community: The Japanese Mexican Community During World War II . The University of Arizona Press. November, 2015. International Latino Book Award. Second Place in History Book, September 2016. Southwest Book Award, February 2017. “Ayotzinapa Manifesto: An Educati on for the Revolution” in Manifesto for New Social Movements: Equity, Access, & Empowerment , Cesar Rossatto, ed, Age Publishing Company, forthcoming. “Representations of Black Womanhood in Mexico,” accepted for publication in Latin American Popular
Culture.
“Tango in Times of War: Luis Tanahara Garc ía,” in Scattered Musics: Ethnic, Racial, Gender and Regional Reconfigurations through Music Performances , Martha I. Chew Sánchez and David Henderson, eds., in review. “Afro-Mestiza representations: La Mulata de Córdoba” in Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America. Marina Llorentes, Díaz de León, A. and Salvi, eds. M. Lexington Books, November, 2015. “Prólogo” in El Espectáculo de la Violencia en el Cine Mexicano , Guadalupe Pérez Anzaldo, Ediciones Eón, 2016. “Mexicanidades de la Diáspora Asiática: Considerations of Gender, Race and Class .” Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS. Vol. 14, Issue 1, Fall 2014. “Daniel Chacón,” Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature, s.v. Luz Elena Ramirez, ed. 2 nd . Edition. Facts on File: 2013. “Ben A. Saenz,” Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature, s.v. Luz Elena Ramirez, ed. 2 nd . Edition. Facts on File: 2013. “ Recovering Afro-Mestiza Identities in a Borderland C lassroom” in Intersections in the Latina and African Diasporas, ed. Marion Rohrleitner and Sarah Ryan. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, December, 2012. Review of Geiger, Andrea, Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928. H-Borderlands, H-Net Reviews. November, 2012. URL: https://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35695 “ Re-Imagining Collectivities: The Mexican Japanese During World War II ” , National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Proceedings, San Jose State University Scholarworks, 2008. Los Corridos en la Memoría del Migrante , translation. México. Ediciones Eón, 2008. “ Un Punto de Vista Diferente. Entrevista con Lourdes Vásquez.” Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe Vol. 28, No. 3 (September -December 2004-2007): 265-268 “ La Estación de la Vergüenza de Ricardo Chávez Castañeda.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea Vol. XIII, No.33 (April, 2007): 39-45. “Saúl Ibargoyen.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea Vol. IX, No. 22 (April, 2004):53-58. “Fuera de lugar: Desbordes Locales en El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea Vol. IX, No. 33 (September, 2003): 39-45. A Living history of Segundo Barrio / El Segundo Barrio: Una Historia Viviente, contributor. El Paso: A Translating Borders Public History Project, 2006. CREATIVE
Cinco Obras de Teatro. Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, November, 2015. Premio Voces al Sol. “ Germinal,” accepted for publication in Voices Breaking Boundaries , forthcoming. “ La Guerra de la Sal,” “ Los Reyes Salazar ,” accepted for publication in Teatro de la Frontera, Enrique Mijares Verdín, ed., UACJ, Cd. Juárez, Chih., forthcoming.
Gitanos: El Camino al Flamenco. Script Writer. University of Texas at El Paso. Documentary to be
released in May, 2014. “Using Journals in Blackboard Learn .” Inside Academic Technologies. University of Texas at El Paso. May, 2013. http://inside.at.utep.edu/?p=1324
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Andalucía: Fusión de Tres Culturas . Script writer. University of Texas at El Paso. Documentary released on April 18, 2013. “Conversación Anacrónica con Anne Sexton” in Mezcla , Art and Writing from the Tumblewords Project, El Paso, Texas: CreateSpace, October, 2013. “A Caroline” in Sangre Mia/Blood of Mine , Jennifer Rathburn, ed. New Mexico State University (Publicaciones de Arenas Blancas), 2013. Silent Herons . San Francisco, Berkeley Press, 2012. Richard Ramírez, mi hermano siamés . Tramoya. Cuaderno de Teatro, Universidad Veracruzana, Tercera Época 110 (Enero/Marzo 2012). A Caroline . Smithsonian Latino Center, 2010. http://latinovirtual.blogspot.com/2010/10/dia -de-losmuertos-literary-series-poem.html Mudas las Garzas . México. Ediciones Eón, 2007. Azogue en la Raiz. México. Ediciones Eón, 2006. “ Fiction,” translated by Toshiya Kamei, in The Stray Branch , No. 6 Vol. 3, (Fall/Winter 2010). “Chio Sam” in Literary El Paso , edited by Marcia Daudistel. Austin: Texas Christian University Press, 2009. “Expedientes del Odio” and “Richard Ramírez, mi hermano siamés,” in En la Frontera Norte: Cd. Juárez y el Teatro, edited by Enrique Minjares. Chihuahua, Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura/Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 2008. Memorias del Silencio/Footprints of the Borderland, 2008, ed. Minerva Laveaga, translated by Selfa Chew, Noli Chew, and Minerva Laveaga. El Paso, El Paso Community College, 2008. “Chio Sam,” translation by Toshiya Kamei. Gwynedd Valley Mercy College, The Griffin (Fall 2008). “Código Postal,” Upstreet (July, 2008). “Péndulo simple”. Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Universidad de Texas en El Paso, XIV-2008, Vol. 15. Various poems in An Anthology of Latin American Women Poets , introduction and translation by Toshiya Kamei. Lima, Perú, Editorial Zignos, 2008. CONFERENCE PAPERS “Singing Tango for Freedom: Luis Tanahara and World War II.” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, NACCS, Denver, April 4 – 6, 2016. “Oral History, memory and resistance.” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Renaissance. Long Beach, 2016. “Critical Pedagogy and War: The Ayotzin apa Rural Normal School” The American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference, Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, Texas. November 11 – 15, 2015. El Piporro: Masculinidad y el Bosquejo del Norte.” Second Internation al Conference on Mexican Norteña Music. University of St. Lawrence, Canton, NY. September 10 -12, 2015. “Japanese Mexican Women during WWII.” Women’s History Month Conference, April 2015. University of Texas at El Paso. “Ayotzinapa. Mexico and Indigenous Student Resistance to State Violence” Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. Toronto, York University, April 30 –May 3, 2015. “Dolor: Dramaturgia en Cd. Juárez”. MALCS Summer Institute, Norther New Mexico College, August 2, 2014. “The Romi and the Mythical Gipsy: A Public History Project,” Chew-Smithart, S., Enriquez, H. and Villa, R. Sun Conference, University of Texas at El Paso. March 5, 2014. “The Japanese Mexican Expulsion from the U.S./Mexico Borderlands.” By special invitation from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. (Un)Silencing the Past: Narratives of Trauma in Comparative Perspective. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, October 24-25, 2013. “Popularizing History.” Western History Association, The Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Arizona, October 9 – 13, 2013. “The Caravan for Peace: A Critical Approach to Borderlands Activism.” Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. University of Illinois at Chicago. May, 2013. “Making the College Curriculum Relevant to Latina/o Students: Case studies from UTEP.” Pérez, F. G. Enriquez, H., Chew-Smithart, S., Villa, R., & Gutierrez, B. May 2013. Workshop module presented to the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, New Orleans, LA “Museo Urbano: A Participative Educational Experience,” with Dr. Yolanda Leyva. Poster presented at the Circle Conference, University of Texas at El Paso, July 31-August 1, 2013. “Descolonizacion Territorial en Territorios Ajenos.” Poster presented at the Circle Conference, University of Texas at El Paso. July 31-August 2, 2013. “From Rarotonga to Angustias: Afro-Mestiza representations in the Mexican imaginary”. 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference. City University of New York, March 7-9, 2013.
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“Andalusia: a Multidisciplinary Study Abroad Experience,” with Hector Enriquez. The International Sun Conference of Teaching and Learning. February 28- March 1, 2013. University of Texas at El Paso. “Tres Culturas: Documenting an Integral Learning Experience,” with Hector Enriquez, Frank Perez and Ramon Villa. Poster presented at the International Sun Conference of Teaching and Learning. University of Texas at El Paso, February 28- March 1, 2013. “Chicano/a Activism: Its Influence on the Literature and Arts.” Raza Unida Party Co nvention Commemoration. University of Texas at El Paso/Mayapán, August 31 - September 1 s t , 2012. “God is Good and Will Unite Us Again: The Internment of a Japanese Mexican Family During World War II.“ Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Conference, University of California, San Diego, August 9-11, 2012. “Intersections of the African and Latina Diaspora in a Borderlands Classroom: The Teaching of Afro Mexico History.” Mujeres Activas en las Letras y el Cambio Social , Summer Institute 2012, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 18 – 22, 2012. “The Cross-Roads of Diasporic Experiences and Temporal Narratives within Schooling Border Communities,” Circle Conference, June 22 -23, 2012, University of Texas at El Paso. “Class, Religion, and Gender: Japanese Mexican internment during World War II.” Latin American Studies Congress 2012, San Francisco, May 23 -26, 2012. “Congress and Contraception: Historical Development of State -Managed Birth Control.“ Women’s History Month Conference, University of Texas at El Paso, March 27 -29, 2012. “No sólo de escribir vive el libro: una mesa de editores,” with Saúl Ibargoyen, Rose Mary Salum, and Agustín Abreu. XVII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas at El Paso, March 1-3, 2012. “Mixed and Transnational Families in the Borderlands.” Western History Association Conference Workshop, Oakland Marriot City Center, October 13-16, 2011. “From the Halls of Academia to the Streets of Activism,” Mujeres Activas en las Letras y el Cambio Social Summer Institute, California State University, Los Angeles, August 3 -6, 2011. “Oral History as Alternative Narrative: The Japanese Mexican Expulsion from the United States/Mexico Borderlands,” Southwest Oral History Association, Los Angel es, March 31-April 1, 2011. “The Discourse of Resistance: In Defense of Japanese Mexican Men During World War II,” Latin American Studies Association Congress, Toronto, October 6 -11, 2010. “Community Stories from El Paso and Beyond .” El Paso Community College Literary Fiesta. September 17, 2010 “Women of the African Diaspora: Writers, Scholars, and Leaders in Conversation” Symposium , University of Texas at El Paso, April 14-15, 2010. “ Bordersenses: la escritura del México de afuera,” XIV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas at El Paso, March 5 -6, 2009. “Re-imagining Collectivities: The Mexican Japanese during WWII.” NACCS 38 th Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, March, 2008. “In our Voices: Preserving Community Stories . ” Creative Responders: Latino Art in Action Regional Arts Training Workshop, National Association for the Latino Arts and Culture, El Paso, Texas. March, 2008. “Repositioning Border Lines: Historical Inequalities in the Borderlands C lassroom.” Southwest Conference of Latin American Studies, El Paso, TX, February 2008 . “Students: Intellectual Activists in El Segundo Barrio .” NACCS 37 th Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, April, 2007. “The Permanent Foreigner: an Alien Citizen in the C lassroom.” Fourth International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancipation. UTEP/UACJ . El Paso, Texas, September, 2006. “Forced Immigration: Latin American Japanese in the United States.” Poster presented at the El Paso Museum of Art during the Envisioning Bracero History Conference . Smithsonian Institute and University of Texas. November, 2005. “Human Rights and Local Activism in Cd. Juárez’ Schools During the 1970’s .” Second International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancip ation. UTEP/UACJ. El Paso, TX, November 2004. “Minor Literatures and Bilingual Writing in the Border.” Associations of Writers Programs Conference. Chicago, Illinois. March, 2004. “Saúl Ibargoyen: Tres Aproximaciones a la Poesía.” VIII Contemporary Mexican Literature Conference, University of Texas at El Paso, March, 2003.
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GUEST SPEAKER “La destrucción del barrio Duranguito: Un proyecto neoliberal fronterizo”[ Re]Imaginando la Ciudad Desde El Borde, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, Centro Cultural de las Fronteras. February 22, 2017. “The Japanese Mexicans During WWII”. Chicano Research Center, UCLA, April 4, 2016. “The Displacement of Japanese Mexicans during WWII,” South Texas College's Veterans Day Lecture Series , Mexican American Studies Program, McAllen, November 10, 2016. “Japanese Mexicans in the US/Mexico Borderlands.” City of El Paso Environmental Service Department, November 14, 2016. “A Bionational Collaboration: Japanese Mexican Internment during WWII.” History Research Symposium, California State University, Northridge, April 26, 2016. “Andalucía: Fusión de Tres Culturas. Interdisciplinary Studies.” Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna. Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, March 17, 2016. “Cinco Obras de Teatro.“ Feria del Libro. October 22, 2015. Las Misiones, Cd. Juárez “La Tules: por una historia sin perdón ni permiso.” VI Semana Conmemorativa de la Lucha Internacional por los Derechos de la Mujer. Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, March 13, 2015. “Crisis in Mexico: Before & After Ayotzinapa” December 2, 2013. UTEP. “Escritoras de la frontera en contra de la violencia social y feminicida.” Teatro Gracia Pasquel, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, November 20, 2014. “Historia y teatro fronterizo.” 1er Foro de Diálogo Cultural Transfronterizo, Cd. Juárez- El Paso. Agosto 30, Septiembre 1, 2014. Telón de Arena. “Los académicos y la verdad de Ayotzinapa.” Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, November 20, 2014. “Narratives from the Borderlands.” University of Missouri, Columbus. September 19, 2014. “Historizando la violencia: Expedientes del Odio,” Magdalena3: Reinvenciones. Colegio de Chihuahua. April 3, 2014. Cd. Juárez, Chih. “El espacio literario en la experiencia femenina fronteriza.” V Semana Conmemorativa de la Lucha Internacional por los Derechos de las Mujeres, March 5, 2014. Universidad Autonóma de Cd. Juárez, Cd. Juárez, Chih. “Andalusia: a Multidisciplinary Study Abroad Experience,” with Hector Enrííquez and Ramón Villa. Inspiration & Perspiration: The Creative Process at UTEP” Lecture Series, the Centennial Museum. May 11, 2013. University of Texas at El Paso. “The African Roots of Fronterizo Music,” For A World of Border Music Series. June 15, 2013. Museo Urbano/Mayapan. El Paso, Texas, "Entre la muerte y el exilio: la inmigración femenina en "Night Stalker." IV Semana Conmemorativa de la Lucha Internacional de los Derechos de las Mujeres, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, March 5-9, 2013. “De Esperanza y rabajo: The History of Labor in El Paso.” Centro de Trabajadores Agrícolas/Museo Urbano. February 20, 2013. "Enlazando Costas: Tejan@s in Nueva York". La Casa Azul Bookstore, New York. March 8, 2013. “La Escritura Chicana .” Encuentro de Escritoras Fronterizas. Seminario Permanente de Estudios Fronterizos, Academia de Creación Literaria, Difusión Cultural y Ciesas Pacífico -Sur. Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, September 18, 2012. “Japanese Mexicans in the United States: Striving for Excellence in Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion” National Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Rio Grande Project Bureau of Reclamation. May 7, 2012. “Visión y Construcción del Hecho Literario Femenino-Masculino,” teleconference presented at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, December 2, 2008. “Spanglish en la literatura fronteriza.” Saint Lawrence University, Department of Modern Languages, April 23, 2008. PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS Teaching Online Academy . Summer 2016. UTEP Academic Technologies. Climate Change and Food Insecurity Pier Institute. Yale University. New Heaven, Connecticut, July 6 -10, 2015. Teaching History and Geography for the 21st Century through Digital Maps, University of Texas at El Paso, June 28, 2014. Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at El Paso, March 1 -2, 2012. Scholarly Writing Workshop , Mujeres Activas en las Letras y el Cambio Social Summer Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 18 -21, 2012. Race, Ethnicity and Migration Seminar . University of Utrecht, Nederland. Trans Atlantic Graduate Exchange Program. 2008.
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Diasporic Counterpoint: Africans, Asians and the Americas Symposium. Northwestern University, April 2007.
Race, Ethnicity and Migration Seminar. University of Coimbra, Portugal. Trans Atl antic Graduate Exchange Program. 2006.
Latino Image Representation and Interpretation Institute . Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. 2004. PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS ABOUT MY WORK
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Las fronteras simbólicas de “Richard Ramírez, mi hermano siamés de Selfa Chew.” Krystel Sóforo. Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, Seminario Internacional de Teatro Sin Fronteras, Octubre 11, 2016. Bachmann, Theresa. “ Perseguidos, reprimidos y confinados: la memoria de los japoneses en México a partir de Mudas las Garzas de Selfa Chew. Colloque international: Voyages, exils et migrations dans la littérature latino-américaine : 15 ans d'écritures migrantes en version esp agnole. Université Bordeaux Montaigne. July 2-6, 2016 Gonzalez, Fredy. “Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Western Historical Quaterly, (2016) whw135 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/whq/whw135 Garcia, Jerry. “Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96(3):583-585. Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Editor’s Picks. Choice, Review On Line February 2016 53:53-2745; doi:10.5860/CHOICE.194840. http://www.cro3.org/content/53/06/53-2745.extract Igartuburu, Elena. (Re)Moving Happiness: Alternative Futurities and Decolonized Emotions in Chinese Latina and Caribbean Poetics. “Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. Toronto,York University, April 30 – May 3, 2015. Mijares Verdín, Enrique. “ Pecados y virtudes en Expedientes del odio de Selfa Chew.” In Los siete pecados capitales en el teatro. Coord. Jesus G. 2015. Editorial Academia del Hispanismo. Madrid, 2015, pp. 309-320. Mijares Verdín, Enrique. “ Pecados y virtudes en Expedientes del odio de Selfa Chew.” Congreso Internacional. XVII Jornadas Internacionales de Theatralia. Madrid. Sociedad Cervantina. Editorial Academia del Hispanismo. Abril 22-24, 2015. Báez Ayala, Susana. Expedientes del odio de Selfa Chew, fractales discursivos de la violencia en la frontera. V Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso. Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y en Ciencias Sociales (CEPHCIS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Abril 22-24, 2015. Sáenz, Inés.” Mudas las garzas , de Selfa Chew, por una política de la justa memoria.” XL Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Colegio de M éxico, Mexico City. June 9-12, 2014. Rodríguez, Roxana. Alegoría de la frontera México-Estados Unidos. Análisis comparativo de dos literaturas colindantes , México: Ediciones Eón-UTEP, 2013. Sáenz, Inés. “Recordar en tercera persona. Mudas las garzas de Selfa Chew y la política de la justa memoria." Trascender La Violencia: Críticas y Propuestas Interdisciplinarias para Construir La Paz . Dora Elvira García, coordinadora. México: Editorial Porrúa, 2014. pp. 199-218. Sáenz, Inés. “Remembering in the Third Person. Mudas las Garzas by Selfa Chew and the Policy of a Just Memory.” XI Meeting of the Group of Six Universities of the Pacific Rim, Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. 2014. Chen Sham, Jorge. Poetas de origen chino y de ascendencia mexicana, Selfa Chew y Oscar Wong. II Simposio Internacional de Estudios sobre China desde Latinoamérica. Universidad de Costa Rica. November 20-21, 2014. Galicia Velasco, Rocío Judith. “Night Stalker: Dramaturgia a contracorriente.” MNT34 , Perspectivas Críticas y Teoría Teatral. México, D. F.: CONACULTA, INBA. November, 2013. Mijares Verdín, Enrique. “La violencia en la dramaturgia femenina de la frontera norte de México .” Latin American Theatre Review, Volume 46, Number 1, Fall 2012, pp. 29-36 Baez, Susana. "Mi hermano Siamés, Night Stalker, de Selfa Chew, polifonía de la hipertextualidad teatral.” Coloquio Universitario de Estudios Teatrales, Chihuahua, Chih., October 22, 2012. Báez Ayala, Susana. "Tres miradas feministas contra la violencia en la dramaturgia de Ciudad Juárez: Selfa Chew, Perla de la Rosa y Guadalupe de la Mora.” El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Cd. Juárez, Chih. September 22, 2012. Galicia Velasco, Rocío Judith. “Duele la Sangre: Dramaturgias Femeninas Contemporáneas.” Tramoya. Cuaderno de Teatro , Universidad Veracruzana, Tercera Época 110, (Enero/Marzo, 2012):36-41 Rodríguez Ortiz, Roxana. “Perspicaz Mirada del Espacio Ideológico en la Poética de Selfa Chew” in Ensayos sobre Identidad, Migración y Cultura Transfronteriza . México, D. F.: Secretaria de Educación de Morelia/Editorial Eón/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, 2011. Chew Sánchez, Martha I. “Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Mestizaje through the Chinese Presence in Mexico” in Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative R acialization, eds. Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. F erguson, Duke University Press, 2011. Solís Delgado, Carmen S. “Posmodernidad e historicidad en Mudas las garzas de Selfa Chew” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. 58 th Annual Conference, April 6-9, 2011 Galicia Velasco, Rocío Judith.“Dolor de sangre: dramaturgias femeninas en torno a la violencia contemporánea”, Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas at El Paso , Marzo 3-6, 2011.
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Rathburn, Jennifer. “Denuncia Poética contra el Feminicidio en el Estado de Chihuahua: un Análisis desde el simulacro”. Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y del Caribe de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Chen Sham, Jorge. “La indagación multicultural y el álbum de familia en Azogue en la raíz de Selfa Chew.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana. Contemporánea (No. 44, 2010). Rodríguez Ortiz, Roxana. “Perspicaz Mirada del Espacio Ideológico en la Poética de Selfa Chew.” Primeras Jornadas Internacionales sobre Migraci ón y Cultura Chicana, Universidad Michoacana and Arizona State University, Morelia, Michoacan, March 12, 2009. Pérez Anzaldo, Guadalupe. "Imágenes memorables en Mudas las garzas de Selfa Chew. Trayectorias de la presencia japonesa en México". Destiempos. Número 23, 2009. Orizaga, Daniel. “Una lectura de Mudas las Garzas.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (No. 34, 2007). Pérez Anzaldo, Guadalupe. “Los Testimonios de la Memoria en Mudas las Garzas , de Selfa Chew.” XIII Contemporary Mexican Literature Conference , University of Texas at El Paso, March, 2008. Mondragón, Sergio, “ Mudas las Garzas , de Selfa Chew.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana. Contemporánea (No. 35, 2007). Wong, Oscar. “Sobre Selfa Chew.” Alforja, Revista de Poesía (Otoño 2007). Wong, Oscar. “La Mirada Sensible y Delicada del “Otro.” Gaceta Literaria Virtual, (Junio, 2007). http://gacetaliteraria.blogia.com/2007/083102 -ano-i-n-9.php Wong, Oscar. “La Mirada Sensible y Delicada del “Otro.” Letras en Rebeldía (Junio, 2008) http://letrasenrebeldia.wordpress.com/resena -y-critica-literaria/ Orizaga, Daniel. “Una Breve Memoria: la Persecución de los Japoneses en México,” Al Margen, Periodismo de Investigación, Medios y Literatura (June, 2007). Gil, Eve. “Entrevista a Selfa Chew.” Revista Siempre! (February, 2008). Gil, Eve. “El Idioma Secreto,” La Trenza de Sor Juana (December, 2007) http://la-trenza-de-sorjuana.blogspot.com/2007/09/el-idioma-secreto.html Ogaz, Osvaldo. “El Discurso de la Subalternidad en una Poética Fronteriza”, paper presented at the XI Contemporary Mexican Literature Conference , El Paso, TX, March, 2006.
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"Bibliografía." Nueva Revista De Filología Hispánica 52, no. 2 (2004): 587-679. 52-3123. Chew, Selfa - "Juan Rulfo y la metáfora de desborde". - RLMC, 2003, núm. 20, 1. GRANTS “Oral Histories: an African American Studies Program Project.” On-Campus Student Employment Program. Awarded $5,168.00 to fund the employment of an Undergraduate Research Assistant. 2016-2017. “Police Use of Force Panel.” Humanities Texas Mini -grant Award. For the “Race, Authority and Violence in 21 s t Century America” series of lectures at UTEP. $1,500. Co-PI: Dr. Aurelia Lorena Murga. College of Liberal Arts Grant (University of Tex as at El Paso), Dodson Scholarship. Project: Funding Black Student Union to attend the Southwestern Black Union Leadership Conference at Texas A & M University, in January, 2016 City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department. Project: Contempora ry Mexican Literature Conference. Obtained each year since 2004 until 2012, ranging from $2,000 – $4,000.00. Humanities Texas. “The Mexican Revolution and Beyond: An Outdoor Exhibit.” Museo Urbano/University of Texas at El Paso. $2,500.00.
AWARDS International Latino Book Award. Second Place in History Book, September 2016. UTEP Research and Sponsored Projects Award for Texas Humanities Grant supporting the series of lectures “Race, Violence, and Authority in Century 21 s t America.” Co-PI: Dr. Aurelia Lorena Murga. Voces al Sol Playwright Award. Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, June 2015. Liberal Arts Outstanding Lecturer, University of Texas at El Paso, April 2015
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Muestra Nacional de Teatro, Durango, November 2013. “Night Stalker: Mi hermano siamés.” Muestra Estatal de Teatro. Chihuahua City, August 2013. “Night Stalker: Mi hermano siam és.” Sun Conference Teaching Portfolio Award, 2011. Trans-Atlantic Graduate Exchange Program: Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies Scholarship in Europe, 2008, University of Utrech. Trans-Atlantic Graduate Exchange Program: Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies Scholarship in Europe, 2006, University of Coimbra Cotton Memorial Scholarship, 2007. Academic Excellence Award, 2005 to 2010. Richard E Dunlap Fund Scholarship, 2004-2005. Graduate Student Marshal, Commencement Ceremony, 2006. Smithsonian Institute. Latino Image Representation and Interpretation Institute Fellowship, 2004. Hispanic Scholarships Fund , 2003. Pasadena Art Center, School of Design Scholarship, 1998. Artistic Excellence Award, 1998. Pasadena City College. Lee Moyne Mark Photography Award, 1998. Pasadena City College. Academic Excellence, 1995. Pasadena City College. Annual Film Festival Special Award for Excellence, 1993. Pasadena City College. Academic Excellence, 1992. Long Beach Community College .
EXTENDED PAPERS, THESES AND DISSERTATIONS COMMITTEES : DISSERTATIONS (PhD): “The Significance of the Afro-Frontier in American History. Blackdom, Barratry, and Bawdy Houses” by Timothy Nelson.” Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso. Board Member, Fall 2015. “La Pena Negra: Women Recall the Bracero Program, 1942-1964” by Mayra Avila Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso. Board Member, i n process. “Dress Reform in the late 19th and early 20th century” by Andrea Severson. Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso. Board Member, in process. “Representación social de la violencia en la dramaturgia del norte ”, Ana Laura Ramírez Vázquez, Universidad de Sonora, Estudios Literarios, ongoing. EXTENDED RESEARCH PAPERS (MA): “Women Farm Workers: The Bracero Program, Immigration and Economy” by Rosa E. Gómez, Department of History, Director, May 2015. “The Chicano/a Movement at the University of Texas at El Paso in 1971” by Angelina Martinez, Department of History, Board Member, May 2015. “Too Little, Too Late: Local Efforts in El Paso During the Great Depression” by Greg Cannon, Department of History, Director, May 2015. Best Extended Paper in the Department of History. Published in Password, the Journal of the El Paso Historical Association. “La Teología Activista Pro-Derechos Civiles De Cleofas Calleros: Microcosmos De Solidaridad México-Americana Desde El Paso, Texas, A Comienzos Del Siglo XX” by Ricardo Montes de Oca. Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso, Director. May 2014. “The Strike at Farah: A Struggle for Mexican and Mexican-Americans to Improve Labor Conditions” by Juan Carlos Varela. Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso. Director, December 2013. “The El Paso Student Walk-Outs” by Doriana Torres. Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso. Director, December 2013. THESES: “Artists Identity and Struggles in El Paso” by Claudia Ley. Department of Sociology. University of Texas at El Paso. Committee Member, Spring 2016. “Before the Railroads Came: Racialization in El Paso, Texas” by Wenn Pratt. Department of Sociology. University of Texas at El Paso. Committee Member, ongoing. “Mexican and Mexican American relations in El Paso” by Angela Silva. Department of Sociology. University of Texas at El Paso. Committee Member, Spring 2016. “Contemporary Social Movements in Cd. Juárez” by Laura Sariñana. Department of Communication. University of Texas at El Paso. Committee Member, May 2013. “Una novela filosófica” by Alfredo Gutiérrez. Interdisciplinary Studies . University of Texas at El Paso. Board Member, December 2012. “Estrategias de afrontamiento contra la violencia de género para el logro del éxito escolar en mujeres de la zona poniente de Ciudad Juárez: educandos del ICHEA en el contexto social 2010 - 2014” by Selene Luna, Department of Sociology, Universidad Aut ónoma de Cd. Juárez. Committee member, ongoing.
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LIBERAL ARTS HONOR’S PROGRAM PAPER “Afro-Mexico: A Study of Influence on Dance and Culture” by Johnson Angeles, Pamela D., University of Texas at El Paso, Committee Member, December 2014.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: University: RACE, AUTHORITY AND VIOLENCE IN 21 ST CENTURY AMERICA COMMITTEE. Committee chair. University of Texas at El Paso. 2015 -2016. YOUNG DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST AT UTEP. Faculty advisor, 2016-2017. BLACK HISTORY MONTH. Organizing series of lectures and performances. February, 2016. BLACK UNION STUDENT ASSOCIATION (UTEP). Student Association Advisor. 2015/2016. ORANGE AND BLUE DAY. African American Studies Program. Undergraduate learning Center. February 2016. LIBERAL ARTS HONORS PROGRAM LIAISON. 2015/2016. INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL FESTIVAL. Coordinator of lectures at Blumberg Auditorium, and setting of two Dia de Los Muertos altar with students, November 2015, and November 2016. MECHA (UTEP). Student Association Advisor. 2013-2015. MINERS IN ACTION (UTEP). Student Association Advisor. Fall, 2013. ARISE (UTEP). Mentor, Fall, 2016. UTEP CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, Department of History and African American Studies Program table, April, 2015. AYOTZINAPA CARAVAN AT UTEP. Panel of relatives of the Normal Rural School Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa Guerrero. University of Texas at El Paso. March 17, 2015. Moderator and lecturer. UTEP CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, designing photographic exhibit of the history of the Plaza with Dr. Maceo C. Dailey and Dr. Max Grossman, April, 2015. JUDGE: Graduate Student Research Expo, University of Texas at El Paso. Borderlands History Panel. Hilton Garden Hotel, El Paso, Texas, November 14, 2014. LECTURER FOR CAMPS (COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM). History 1302. University of Texas at El Paso. Summer 2009. SON JAROCHO: AN AFRO-MEXICAN MUSICAL EXPERIENCE. Event Director. University of Texas at El Paso. October 11, 2012. WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA. Event Coordinator. University of Texas at El Paso, September 15, 2012. FORUM AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE . Project Director. La Mujer Obrera, El Paso, Texas. February 26, 2011. EL PASO HISTORY DAY. Regional Qualifying Contest for Texas History Day (Middle schools and High schools level). Judge. University of Texas at El Paso, 2011, 2012 and 2016. INTRODUCTION TO SPEAKER SONIA SANCHEZ (American poet and internationally acclaimed writer). African American History Month. University of Texas at El Paso, February 25, 2008. LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULUM COMMITTEE. Representing the African American Studies Program. Fall 2012. OUTREACH CAMPAIGN. Visiting area high schools to promote enrollment in the University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Languages and Linguistics. October, 2002. Community: PEFORMANCE: TRES VOCES EN EL CAMINO at Feria del Libro, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, October 5, 2016, with Dr. Ysla Campbell, and Dr. Carmen Amato. AYOTZINAPA CARAVAN AT MAYAPAN. Panel of relatives of the Normal Rural School Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa Guerrero. La Mujer Obrera. March 17, 2015. Member of Organizing Committee and translator. BORDERSENSES LITERARY REVIEW. Spanish Language and Art Editor, translator. June 2004December 2015. ADVISOR: Wise Latina International Summit. El Paso, Texas, June 13-14, 2014. CARAVAN FOR THE PEACE: JAVIER SICILIA. Press and Organization Board Member, El Paso, Texas. June 11, 2011. Scholarly: EDITORIAL BOARD REVIEWER. Bulletin of Latin American Research: Journal of the Society for Latin American Studies
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The Rocky Mountain Review & E-Review. (The peer-reviewed journal of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association). Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez Press. Conectados , Communication Manual , Spanish language textbook by Patti J. Marinelli and Karin Fajardo. Kindle Edition, Cengage. Reviewer. SAINT LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY SUMMER SEMINARY IN THE BORDERLANDS. Advisor and guest speaker. Global Studies Department. 2011 -2012. BRACERO HISTORY ARCHIVE A University of Texas at El Paso/Smithsonian Institute Proj ect. Interviewer. November, 2005. JOURNALISM
El Diario. Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua. 2011. Opinion Section. Juárez Dialoga, Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua. July, 2011. Opinion Section. ORGANIZATIONS Member of The Working Committee of the Critical Ethnic Studies As sociation 2013/2014. NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) American Educational Research Association Western History Association. Latin American Studies Association. Mujeres Activas en las Letras y el Cambio Social . Poetry Society of America Phi Alpha Theta. 2009 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. Encuentro de Poetas en Cd. Juárez . Member of the Organization Committee, 2004. Certamen Internacional de Poesía/Premio Continentes, Judge. 2004. Creative Writing MFA Program Board, UTEP. Graduate Student Board Membe, 2003. Creative Writing Students Association, UTEP. President, 2003.
BOOK PRESENTATIONS
Uprooting Community: The Japanese Mexican Community During World War II . The University of Arizona Press. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, October 13, 2016.
Uprooting Community: The Japanese Mexican Community During World War II . The University of Arizona Press. University of Texas at El Paso, Blumber g Auditorium, November, 2015.
Uprooting Community: The Japanese Mexican Community During World War II . The University of Arizona Press. Mayapan, La Mujer Obrera, December, 2015.
Marco Pétriz: Dramaturgo del Teatro . Durango, México: Difusión Cultural, UJED : CONACULTA, 2008. Presented at Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, March 5, 2014.
Sueño de palabras en la estepa. Experiencias lectoras contra la violencia en Ciudad Juárez (2001 2010) by Susana Báez Ayala, Ana Laura Ramírez Vázquez, Ivonne Ramírez Ramírez, Colectivo Palabras de Arena, Colección Diversidad sin Violencia , Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Ediciones Eón. COLEF, Mexico City, Septiembre 2012. Persistencia de la memoria y En la Frontera Norte , by Enrique Mijares, editor. Universidad
Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, October 2011. Estación Tempe, by Carmen Amato. University of Texas at El Paso, April, 2011. La Pequeña Estambul, by Javier García Galiano. Cafebrería. Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, November, 2009. Rio Vertebra/Vertebral River, by Juan Armando Rojas Joo, Percolator, El Paso, Texas. November, 2009. Ceremonial del Viento , by Juan Armando Rojas Joo, at I nstituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura, Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, June, 2006. La Frontera: Un Cuerpo , by Gabriela Aguirre. Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura. Cd. Juárez, Chih., June, 2004. Gestación de la Luz , by Carmen Amato. Instituto Nacional de Be llas Artes. Cd. Juárez, Chih., July. 2007.
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READINGS
Feria del Libro , Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, Las Misiones, December, 2015. Encuentro Internacional de Escritores. Literatura en el Bravo. “Narrativa Contemporánea Mexicana.” Centro Cultural Paso Del Norte, September 2009.
Mudas las Garzas, commented by Agustín García, Daniel Orizaga Doguim and Luisa Elberg.
Sponsored by Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez and Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura, Centro Cultural Universitario, May, 2008 . Mudas las Garzas, commented by Luis Arturo Ramos, Fernando García Núñez and Daniel Orizaga Doguim. Consulado General de México en El Paso, Texas. November, 2007. Mudas las Garzas, commented by Sergio Mondragón, Oscar Wong and Saúl Ibargoyen. Casa del Poeta Ramón López Velarde, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Art es, México, D. F. July, 2007. Women Without Borders, poetry reading. Consulado General de México, El Paso, Texas. March, 2007. Re-Imagining the Borders . Border Book Festival. Reading and lecture, 2006. XI Encuentro de Mujeres Poetas en el País de las Nubes , event that holds a series of readings, workshops and conferences by poets from different parts of the world in the state of Oaxaca and Mexico City, including the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Convent of Santo Domingo in Oaxaca. Selected by the board to represent the United States, 2003. VISUAL ART
Entrecruces: Feminicide in Cd. Juárez, exhibit of four ceramic pieces and poetry reading. Collective exhibit. Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez , March, 2007.
Corridos in the Migrant Memory, photographs by Selfa A. Chew. Albuquerque. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
“El Diablo En Una Botella Norteña : Music And The Construction Of Mexican Masculinity,” photographs by Selfa A. Chew -Smithart. Journal Third Text . I70 (2004). Untitled Watercolor on the cover of Feministas Unidas (Spring 2005). Rio Grande Review . Illustrator, (Volume 23, Spring 2004). Memorias del Silencio / Footprints of the Borderland. (2007). Illustrated by Selfa Chew, edited by Minerva Laveaga. El Paso. El Paso Community College, 2007. POETRY WORKSHOPS Cuerpos poéticos. Wise Latina Summit. El Paso Central Library, June 14, 2014. Creative Writing Workshops. Migrant Education Program. Grades 6 th -8 th . Canutillo School District. 2004. Creative Writing Workshop for Juvenile Interns. Escuela de Mejoramiento para Menores, Cd. Juárez. May, 2003, May, 2004, and May 2006. PLAY:
Richard Ramírez, mi Hermano Siamés. Directed by Perla De La Rosa, Centro Cultural Paso del Norte, Cd Juárez, Chihuahua, August 20 – August 31, 2012 and June 2013. Selected to participate in the State Theatrical Festival, Chihuahua, August, 2013; and selected to participate in the National Theatrical Festival , Durango, November, 2013.
REFERENCES
Yolanda Leyva, Ph.D. Department of History Chair, University of Texas at El Paso. John D. Márquez, Ph.D. Department of African American Studies and Latin American Studies, Northwestern University. Eve Stoddard, Ph.D. Department of Global Studies, University of Saint Lawrence .
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