Amelia María de la Luz Montes

Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., 1999 University of Denver. Denver, Colorado. English.
M.A., 1994 University of Denver. Denver, Colorado. English.
B.A., 1980 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. English.

SPECIALIZATIONS:

Chicana/Chicano and U.S. Latina/Latino Literature and Theory
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
Creative Writing, Fiction

PUBLICATIONS: CRITICAL WRITING

Books:

• María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives
  Co-edited volume with Anne Elizabeth Goldman
  University of Nebraska Press, 2004
  
• Corazon y Tierra: Latinas Writing on the Great Plains & Midwest
  Under Review: University of Illinois Press
  

Articles and Chapters in Journals and Books:

• Peer Reviewed
  • “María Amparo Ruiz: A Transhistoric Tradition.” Symbolism: A New International Annual of Critical Aesthetics Journal. Volume IV, 2005, pp. 293-311.
  • “ ‘Mine is the Mission to Redress’: The New Order of Knight-Errantry in Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts.” María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives. Ed. Amelia María de la Luz Montes and Anne Elizabeth Goldman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. pp. 206-224.
  • “Tortilleras on the Prairie: Latina Lesbians Writing the Midwest.” The Journal of Lesbian Studies. Vol. 7. #3, 2003. pp. 25-41.
  • Tortilleras on the Prairie: Latina Lesbians Writing the Midwest.” Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists. Ed. María Dolores Costa. New York: The Haworth Press, 2003. pp. 29-46.
  • “ ‘See How I Am Received’: Nationalism, Race, and Gender in Who Would Have Thought It?” Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century. Ed. Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi H. Quiñonez. Indiana University Press, 2002. pp. 177-194.
  • “‘Es Necesario Mirar Bien’: The Letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.” Recovering the Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume III. Ed. María Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sánchez Korrol. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2000. pp. 16-37.
  • “María Amparo Ruiz de Burton Negotiates American Literary Politics and Culture.” Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization. Ed. Joyce W. Warren and Margaret Dickie. University of Georgia Press, 2000. pp. 202-225.
  • “Theory By Any Other Name is Still Theory.” California English. 4:1 (Fall 1998): 8-9.
• Encyclopedia Entries:
  • “Chicano/a Literature.” The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Literary Criticism and Theory Since 1940. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2002. pp. 575-582.
  • “María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Ed. Gonzalez, Deena J., and Suzanne Oboler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. volume 2, pp. 557-559
  • “Graciela Limón.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Ed. Gonzalez, Deena J., and Suzanne Oboler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. volume 4, pp. 41-43.
• Book Reviews:
  • Review of Crescent, by Diana Abu-Jaber. Prairie Schooner. In Press, spring 2006.
  • Review of Telling Our Stories: The Lives of Midwestern Latinas, by Theresa Barron-McKeagney. Latino Studies Journal. 3:2 (July 2005): 301-305.
  • Review of Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Ed. Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita. Spec. issue of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20.1-2 (2003): 195-197.

PUBLICATIONS: CREATIVE WRITING

Short Story Collection:

• While Pilar Tobillo Sleeps −manuscript being sent out

Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Poetry in journals and anthologies:

• Peer Reviewed
  • (short story)“Amígdala.” River City Journal. 25 (2005): 84-90
  • (non-fiction:memoir)“9-11 Testimonio.” One Wound for Another/Una Herida por Otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the US Through Cyberspace (11 de Septiembre 2001 – 11 Marzo 2002). Ed. Claire Joysmith and Clara Lomas. Mexico, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2005. pp. 213-216.
  • (poetry)“Their House of Cards,” “Even When the Story is Finished,” “Running Bodies Through L.A.” Elixir: Poetry and Fiction 2001. Ed. Dana Curtis. Minnesota: Elixir Press, 2001. pp. 37-39.
  • (short story)“R for Ricura.” Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millennium. Ed. Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake. New York: Alyson publications, 2000. pp. 160-176.
  • (short story)“La Guacamaya.” Culture and Society in Dialogue: Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions. Ed. María Herrera-Sobek. Santa Barbara: Center for Chicano Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 2000. pp. 201-214.
  • (non-fiction)“Marilyn Whirry: National Teacher of the Year. A Tribute.” California English 6.2 (2000): 28.
  • (short story)“While Pilar Tobillo Sleeps.” Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers. Ed. Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1999. pp. 9-21.
  • (short story)“Frayed Edges, Loose Thread.” Saguaro 9 (1995): 7-11.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

External:

• Latina/Latino Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, $42,000
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Jan. 2004-Dec. 2004)
• Chicana Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Chicano Studies, $18,000
  University of California, Santa Barbara (July 1997-July 1998)
• Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage "Grants-in-Aid" (University of Houston), $6,000
  for research at The Huntington Library (January 1997-October 1997)
• The Huntington Library/Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Fellowship (Summer 1996) $1500
• RMWI (Rocky Mountain Women's Institute) Creative Writing Fellowship, $12,000 Associate Fellow (September 1995-June 1996)

Internal, UNL:

• Academic Senate, Convocations Grant, 2005, $750
• Layman Award, 2003, $10,000
• Research Council, Faculty Grant, 2003, $5000
• Academic Senate, Convocations Grant, 2002, $350
• Humanities Center Grant, 2002, $500
• Research Council, Faculty Grant, 2001, $6500