Michelle Habell-Pallan

Assistant Professor, Chicano Studies
Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, 1997

Publications

Books

Latina/o Popular Culture. Co-edited with Mary Romero. New York: New York University Press (In press: expected publication date June 2002).

Chicana and Latino Performance, Popular Culture, and Cultural Practices in the New Transnational Imaginary.

In-progress. Urban Muses/Urban Music: Transnational Youth Culture in Los Angeles and Mexico City

Dissertation

"'Cutting the Label Out': Performing Identity, Cultural Politics, and Transnational Subjects in Chicana/o and Latina/o Cultural Production." University of California, Santa Cruz. 1997.

Articles in Journals

"El Vez is 'Taking Care of Business': The Inter/National Appeal of Chicana/o Popular Music." Cultural Studies (vol. 13, no. 2, 1999): 195-210.

"Family and Sexuality in Recent Chicano Performance: Luis Alfaro's Memory Plays." Ollantáy Theater Magazine (vol. 5, no. 1, 1996): 33-42.

"Heterotopias and Shared Methods of Resistance: Navigating Social Spaces and Spaces of Identity," Michelle Habell-Pallán and Jennifer Gonzalez. Inscriptions: Women of Color in Collaboration and Conflict (vol. 7, 1994): 81-103.

Essays in Collected Volumes

"Marisela Norte: NORTE/word." Latina Literary Voices: Remapping the Americas. Alvina Quintana, ed. St. Martins Press (forthcoming).

"'Soy Punkera y ¿Que?': Chicana Feminist Representation." Submitted to Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation. Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar, eds.

"Introduction: Latina/o Popular Culture." Co-authored with Mary Romero. Latina/o Popular Culture. Co-edited with Mary Romero. New York: New York University Press (In press: expected publication date June 2002).

"'Don't Call Us Hispanic': Latina/o Theater in Canada." Latina/o Popular Culture. Co-edited with Mary Romero. New York: New York University Press (In press: expected publication date June 2002).

"Way Out Performance: An Interview with Marga Gomez." Latinas on Stage: Criticism and Practice. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 2000: 164-190.

"No Cultural Icon: Marisela Norte." Women Transforming Politics. Kathy Jones, Cathy Cohen, and Joan Tronto, eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997: 256-268.

Reprinted Articles

"El Vez is 'Taking Care of Business': The Inter/National Appeal of Chicana/o Popular Music." Transnational Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies. Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, ed. Routledge Press (in press).

Encyclopedic Entries

Entries: "Marisela Norte." In Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Eds. Virginia Sanchez Korrol and Vicki Ruiz. Indiana University Press (forthcoming).

Entry: "Chicano Graphic and Performing Arts." Encyclopedia of American Studies. Grolier Press, 2001.

Entry: "Marisela Norte." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1999: 170-176.

Biographical Entry on "Nathaniel Mackey." The Oxford Press Companion to African American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997: 315.

Performance/Theater Reviews

"Que Pasa con La Raza, eh." Theater Journal (vol. 52, no. 1,2000): 112-114.

Other

"Transnational Directions: Latina Filmmakers." Tonatzin. Program for CineFestival. Guadalupe Arts Center. July 1999.

"Cultural Interchange Between the U.S. and Mexico." Tonatzin. Program for CineFestival. Guadalupe Arts Center. June 1998.

"Notes on Young, Urban and Loud: Feminist Articulations in Mexico City." Chicano/Latino Research Center Newsletter, (Spring 1994): 4-5.

Teaching and Research Interests

Courses

CHSTU 491. Chicana/Latina Expressive Culture

CHSTU 491. U.S. Latina/o Theater

CHSTU 201. Introduction to Chicano Studies

AES 498. U.S. Latina/o Theater

AES 498. Latina/o Popular Culture