San Diego State University

Director, Professor, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences (MALAS)

Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences

San Diego State University

Thesis Title: The Politics of Solitude: Alienation in the Literatures of the Americas

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web-based info:

http://textmex.blogspot.com
http://malas.sdsu.edu/textmex
http://twitter.com/eyegiene
http://mextasy.blogspot.com
http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu

Bio:

William Anthony Nericcio directs a cultural studies graduate program known as MALAS (the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences) at San Diego State University--the program, known as the "MA in Curiosity" is an interdisciplinary studies program open to undergraduates with degrees in all majors (http://malas.sdsu.edu). Additionally, he serves as a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and a member of the faculties in the department of Chicana/o Studies (CCS) and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS).

Nericcio dabbles in and publishes in various fields including 20th and 21st century American Literature, Latin American Studies, Chicana/Chicano Studies, Film Theory, Cultural Studies, and semiotics (digital, cyber, & old school analogue)--though whispers suggest he is best known as a Chicano devotee of continental deconstruction. He has published articles on Orson Welles' proto-Chicano masterpiece Touch of Evil, on the polticial vacillations of Octavio Paz, Pee-wee Herman's unfortunate encounter with sexual policing, Frida Kahlo's ghostly collaboration with Gilbert Hernandez, and more.

Some of his works include his 1998 illustrated exposé on Speedy Gonzales, “Autopsy of a Rat: Odd, Sundry Parables of Freddy Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing about Our First World Visual Emporium,” a revised and expanded essay on Rita Hayworth, electrolysis, and the existential in Violence and the Body, and an the article on Undocument Worker Violence,The Marquis de Sade and California Law Enforcement for BAD SUBJECTS.

Nericcio's primary ongoing critical work is an illustrated history of Mexican and Latina/o stereotypes, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" In America. As a passage from the book puts it, "the substance of the Tex[t]-Mex project is the wily retinue of animated, conjured, fabricated, costumed 'monsters' that pass for 'Mexicans' in the popular imagination of the United States-monsters like the posed corpses from the US/Mexico military skirmishes that find their way onto postcards (the email of their day), like the 'half-breed' in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil that drives its Falstaffian anti-hero, the film's director, to murder and more; like Speedy Gonzales, child of the imagination of Warner Bros.' genius animators and monstrous acme of the American stereotype industry."

Nericcio is presently putting the finishing touches on EYEGIENE for UT Press (http://eyegiene.blogspot.com). He received his English BA from the University of Texas in 1984, working there with Ramon Saldivar, Richard Simon, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Elizabeth Cullingford. In 1989 he completed his PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.  His first posting was at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, followed by his present gig at San Diego State University.

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