Just a quick note regarding MALAS's effort to collaborate with local area San Diego Schools:
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PRESS RELEASE | Tuesday, September 16, 2014
MEXTASY
The MALAS High School Outreach Program
A Joint Community Engagement Initiative
Thursday, September 18, 2014
On
Thursday, September 18, 2014, Dr. William “Memo” Nericcio, Director of the
Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences (MALAS), will be a “Visiting-Professor-for-the-Day”
at San Ysidro High School, San Ysidro, California. From 10am to 4pm, Nericcio
will hang with San Ysidro High English teacher Aaron Magnan and his amazing
students, watching their presentations, and commenting on their work in class.
At 2pm, there will be a feature lecture for the students entitled: “The Past,
Present, and Future of Mexican, Mexican-American, and Latino/a Literature,
Film, Photography, and Art on the Border and Beyond.”
William Nericcio is a Mexican-American public intellectual born in
Laredo, Texas. With a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and
an MA and PhD from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Nericcio has worked
in the United States and England for close to 25 years with appointments to the
faculties of the University of Connecticut, the University of California,
Riverside, the Foundation for International Education, London, and San Diego
State University where he presently serves as Director, Master of Arts in
Liberal Arts & Sciences (MALAS); Professor, English & Comparative
Literature, Chicana/o Studies, and Latin American Studies; and Director, San
Diego State University Press. He is the author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the “Mexican” in America and
Homer from Salinas: John Steinbeck's
Enduring Voice for California. Mextasy: The MALAS High School Outreach Program
is an extension of the Mextasy Exhibition: http://mextasy.blogspot.com
Contact Information:
Bill Nericcio, Director
MALAS: Master of Arts in Liberal Arts &
Sciences,
College of Arts and Letters | Nasitir Hall 224
5500 Campanile Drive, mailcode: 4423
San Diego, CA 92182-4423
Phone: 619.594.1524
Fax: 619.594.4998
memo@sdsu.edu
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Aaron Magnan, Chair
English Department
San Ysidro High School
5353 Airway Road
San Diego, CA 92154
Phone: 619-710-2300
Fax: 619-710-2318
Aaron.Magnan@sweetwaterschools.org
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Born and raised in the dusty, hot (then unpaved, thanks J.C. Martin) streets of Laredo, I have never really ventured to that other grand bordertown up the Rio Grande, El Paso, Texas! But that fault is remedied the third week of October with the traveling Mextasy roadshow venturing to UTEP--the University of Texas at El Paso. I will be the guest of the students and faculties of the departments of Communication and Chicana/o Studies there! The main talk is at 5:30pm in Quinn Hall #212--it's free and open to the public. What to expect? Desmadres, readings, screenings, signings, hawking of posters, and some snippets from my new book Eyegiene!
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