Hector Torres Papers 1978-2010

Portillo, Lourdes

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Cisneros, Sandra

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Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 and raised in Chicago. Cisneros is the daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. She was educated in the Midwest before moving to the Southwest in 1984. Cisneros graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has lived in San Antonio for most of the last twenty years. She has worked as a teacher to high school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and most recently, as a visiting writer at a nu...

Quiñonez, Naomi Helena

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University of New Mexico. Dept. of English.

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The Writers at Work collection consists of video recordings of lectures by American fiction writers. The following is a list of the authors who spoke and the topics they discussed: Waters, Frank (1902-1995). Waters is known for his novels and nonfiction works pertaining to Native Americans and the American Southwest. His lecture concerned the differences between writing "fact and fancy," or non-fiction and fiction. Hughes, Dorothy B. (1904-1993). Hughes, a po...

Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda, 1942-....

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Erlinda Gonzales-Berry joined the Oregon State University faculty in 1997 as chair of the Ethnic Studies Department, a position she held until her retirement in December 2007. Gonzales-Berry specialized in teaching Latino literature and culture; published extensively on Chicano and Nuevomexicano literature and culture; and conducted research on immigration from Mexico to the United States. She organized several conferences and symposia on Chicano studies in Oregon. Prior to her appointment at OS...

Martínez, Demetria 1960-

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Writer. Born in Albuquerque, N.M. Educated at Princeton University where Demetria Martínez took courses in religious social ethics. Her writings contain a mix of personal and political themes, focusing heavily on the Sanctuary Movement to aid Salvadoran refugees and on interpersonal relationships. From the description of Papers, 1988-[ongoing]. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 36677837 Demetria Martínez was born in Albuquerque, NM on ...

Cervantes, Alma E.

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Rodriguez, Richard

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Anzaldúa, Gloria

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Hinojosa, Rolando

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Mora, Pat

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Castillo, Ana

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Biographical Sketch Ana Castillo (June 15, 1953-) is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and esaayist. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has one son, Marcel Ramón Herrera, born in Evanston, Illinois, on September 21, 1983. In 1993, Castillo married George R. Esenwein, an associate professor of history at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Long considered one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chi...

Soto, Gary.

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Torres, Hector Avalos, 1955-2010

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Top section of funeral prayer card for Hector Torres. (Box 1, Folder 2) Hector A. Torres was born in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1955 and lived with his grandparents in a small ranch town in Chihuahua. At age ten he was adopted and moved to El Paso, Texas. He earned all his degrees, including a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Torres was on faculty at the University of New Mexico, Department of English fr...

Islas, Arturo, 1938-1991

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Professor in the English Department, Stanford University, teaching American and Chicano literatures. From the description of An excerpt from MIGRANT SOULS : Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs' joint meeting keepsake, 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510779 Mexican-American writer. From the description of Arturo Islas papers, 1956-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552937 Biographical Note Arturo...