Publications by Theresa Delgadillo
Current Projects
Latina Oral Histories of Milwaukee
This project documents the unique history and experiences of Latinas in Milwaukee, illuminating Latina realities in the Midwest, through the collection and publication of Latina life stories.
Books
A critical reading of spiritual re-imagination in fiction and documentary film. This work examines both dominating and subversive forms of religious discourse, practice and collectivity, questioning each as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race and nation.
Print and Online Articles and Book Chapters
"The Ideal Immigrant." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Volume 36, Number 1 (Spring 2011): 37-67.
"The Criticality of Latino/a Fiction in the Twenty-First Century ." In American Literary History 2011 23: 600-624. Ed. Theresa Delgadillo.
"Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora." In A Companion to African American Literature. Ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 376-392.
"Singing 'Angelitos Negros': African Diaspora Meets Mestizaje in the Americas."
American Quarterly 58.2 (2006): 407-430.
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"Exiles, Migrants, Settlers, and Natives: Literary Representations of Chicano/as and Mexicans in the Midwest."
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Midwest Miscellany XXX (2002): 27-45. [republication]
"‘Angelitos Negros’ and Transnational Racial Identifications." in Rebellious Reading: The Dynamics of Chicana/o Cultural Literacy.
Ed. Carl Gutiérrez-Jones. Santa Barbara, CA: Center for Chicano Studies, 2004. 129-143.
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"Film and the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience: Representations of Religion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience.
Ed. Carl Gutiérrez-Jones. Santa Barbara, CA: Center for Chicano Studies, 2004. 129-143.
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"La aparición de la literatura chicana feminina." Revista de la Universidad de México.
Nueva Época.3 (2004): 65-71.
"Face of an Angel." in Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature.
Ed. Alvina E. Quintana. New York: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2003. 37-50.
"Race, Sex, and Spirit: Chicana Negotiations of Catholicism." in Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism?
Ed. Sally Barr Ebest and Ron Ebest. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2003. 242-250.
"Exiles, Migrants, Settlers, and Natives: Literary Representations of Chicano/as and Mexicans in the Midwest."
JSRI Occasional Paper No. 64. East Lansing, MI: The Julian
Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, 1999. 1-11.
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"Forms of Chicana Feminist Resistance: Hybrid Spirituality in Ana Castillo's So Far from God."
Modern Fiction Studies 44.4 (1998): 888-916.
"Norman Mailer's Mexican: Enabler of the White Man's Quest in The Naked and the Dead."
Latino Studies Journal 8.2 (1997): 15-34.
"Gender at Work in Laguna Coyote Tales." Studies in American Indian
Literatures 7.1 (1995): 3-24.