Email: mhabellp@u.washington.edu

Michelle Habell-Pallan is an Associate Professor in the Women Studies Department and an adjunct in the School of Music.  Her book, Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2005) received an MLA book prize honorable mention. In her role as guest curator of the award-winning  traveling exhibit American Sabor:  U.S. Latinos in Popular Music, a collaboration between the University of Washington and The Experience Music Project Museum, she is engaged in developing public humanities projects.   She is also a past recipient of the  Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Award as well as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Research Award for her research and writing on gender, popular music and culture.  Her new book, Beat Migration: Chicano/a Roots/Routes of American Pop Music is currently in-progress. 

• Ph.D., Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1997
• M.A., American Literature, University of California at San Diego, 1993
• B.A., English, San Diego State University, 1989

Cultural Studies Methodologies. Chicana Feminist Theory and Methodologies. Politics of Represenation in Latina/o cultural production (including performance, music, and musuem presentation).  Feminist Pop Music and Pop Culture Criticism. Public Humanities/Engaged Scholarship. Cultural Politics of Immigration Discourse.

• Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005
•  Latina/o Popular Culture. Habell-Pallán, Michelle and Mary Romero, eds., New York University Press, 2002
•  "'Don't Call US Hispanic': Popular Latino Theater in Vancouver" in Latina/o Popular Culture. Habell-Pallán, Michelle and Mary Romero, eds., New York University Press, 2002
• "'Soy Punkera, y Qué?': Sexuality, Nation, and Punk." In Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America.  Deborah Pacini Hernández and Eric Zolov, eds.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004: 160-178.
• "Alice Bag's Vexing Voice:  The Unlikey Influence of Mexican Cancion Ranchera on 1970s Hollywood Punk," forthcoming

• Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship.The Dynamics of Chicana/o Literacy Center. Center for Chicano Studies. University of California at Santa Barbara.  2002-2003.
• A.W. Mellon Foundation. Career Enhancement Fellowship for Underrepresented Junior Faculty. Administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 2001-2002.
• Rockefeller Foundation Research Team Fellow. Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock [Music] in Latin America. Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center at Bellagio (Italy). Summer 2002.

Chicana Feminist Theory (WOMEN 590 B) Graduate Seminar
Cultural Studies and Public Scholarship: American Sabor  (WOMEN 590 B)  Graduate Seminar
Women of Color as Cross-Cultural Artists (WOMEN 351/AES 310)
Latina/Latino Theater (CHSTU 340)
Latina Cultural Production (WOMEN 541/CHSTU 410)

See Michelle Habell-Pallan's faculty page for more information about her current work.