Updated Fall 2020
Alexandrea Pérez Allison Department of English The University of Texas at Austin
208 W. 21st Street, Stop B5500 Austin, TX, 78712 (512) 471-6109
[email protected] EDUCATION
Expected 2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin Graduate Portfolio Certificate in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
Dissertation: “Fotos y Recuerdos: Decolonial Ephemera Strategies in 21st Century Latina Literature,” Supervised by Dr. John Morán
González
2017 M.A., English, The University of Texas at Austin 2015 B.A., English & Hispanic Studies, Rice University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019-2020 Assistant Director, Lower Division Literature Program, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
2016-2020 Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2018-2019 Instructor, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2017-2018 Instructor, Department of Rhetoric & Writing, The University of Texas at Austin 2015-2017 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Forthcoming “The Decolonial Project of Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper,” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Spring 2021.
June 2020 “Bodega Dreams in Austin, Texas,” Latinx Talk, Latinx Life in the Covid-19 Pandemic Series, https://latinxtalk.org/2020/06/24/bodega-dreams-in-austin-texas/
Reviews
Spring 2019 Introduction to “Latina/o Genre Shifts: Decolonizing Knowledge(s) Through Counter-Histories and ‘Alternative’ Genre” Special Section in E3W Review of Books, Volume 19: 64-65.
Spring 2019 Review of The Chicano Generation: Testimonios from The Movement by Mario T. Garcia, E3W Review of Books, Volume 19: 71-72.
Spring 2016 Review of Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century by Tace Hedrick, E3W Review of Books, Volume 16: 54-55.
Public-Facing Scholarship
Fall 2020 “A Taco Testimony and the Pre-Modern Recipe,” Genealogies of Modernity Forum, the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/forum/2020/10/7/a-taco-testimony-and-the-pre-modern-recipe
Spring 2020 With Carla O. Alvarez, Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) Finding Aid for The University of Texas Center for Mexican American Studies Archive,
http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00508/lac-00508.html
August 2019 With Albert A. Palacios, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)/Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection Curriculum Design, “The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the U.S.-Mexico Border,”
http://curriculum.llilasbenson.utexas.edu/lesson/lesson-gh-treaty-voyant-2/
2015-2017 Contributor, Pterodáctilo blog and podcast, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin.
“Latinx Media Makers: Jesus Salvador Treviño,” March 21, 2017. “Voces: Latin@ Oral Histories,” February 13, 2017.
“UT’s Center for Mexican American Studies: From Paredes to Present,” November 20, 2016.
“Book Review: Blanca Busquet’s The House of Silence,” September 19, 2016. “The Latino Remix: May the Real J.B. Please Stand Up,” April 14, 2016. “Book Review: Tace Hedrick’s Chica Lit,” February 29, 2016.
“Sandra Cisneros at the Texas Book Festival,” November 24, 2015. “Mourning, Memory, y Música: La Fiesta de la Flor,” October 9, 2015.
AWARDS & HONORS
2020-2021 Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) Dissertation Fellowship 2020 Graduate Teaching Showcase Award, Faculty Innovation Center (FIC), The
University of Texas at Austin
2019 Social Science Research Council/Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
2019 Charles Roeckle Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin – Honorable Mention
2019 Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)/Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) Scholarship
2019 Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)/Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection Digital Humanities Curriculum Re/Design Staff Support Competition
2019 Student Professional Development Award, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2017 Social Science Research Council/Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
2017 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
2015 Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
2019 “The Decolonial Project of Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper,” Society of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States Conference, University of Cincinnati, March 21-24
2018 “The War Against Omniscient Narration”: Auto-Historia and the Decolonial Impulse of The People of Paper, Graduate Association for Comparative Literature Students Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, September 28-29
2017 “We Are Fighting a War Against a Story”: Counter-Histories, Counter-Narratives in Bodega Dreams and The People of Paper, Social Science Research Council/Mellon Mays Graduate Initiative Programs Summer Conference, University of New Mexico, June 21-23
2017 “We Are Fighting a War Against a Story”: Counter-Histories, Counter-Narratives in Bodega Dreams and The People of Paper, The Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) Siglo XXI Conference, The University of Texas at San Antonio, May 17-19
2016 “Este Fácil Soneto Cotidiano”: Openness and Optimism in Salvador Novo’s Estatua de Sal Sonnets, Queer Poetics Conference on LGBTQ Poetry and Literature, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin, May 11
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record at The University of Texas at Austin Department of English
Fall 2019 Intro to Mexican American Literature & Culture Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies
2018-2019 Ethnicity & Gender: La Chicana Department of Rhetoric and Writing,
2017-2018 Intro to Rhetoric & Writing
Teaching Assistant at The University of Texas at Austin Department of English
2017 American Literature Survey – 4 Sections (taught as online course) Fall 2016 American Literature Survey – 2 Sections
Spring 2016 World Literature Survey – 2 Sections 2015 American Literature Survey – 2 Sections PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Spring 2020 Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) Teaching Preparation Series, The University of Texas at Austin – Advanced Certificate of Completion
2020 Social Science Research Council/Mellon Mays Proposal Writing and Dissertation Development Seminar, March 24-28
Fall 2019 Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) Teaching Preparation Series, The University of Texas at Austin – Certificate of Completion
2019 “Digital Humanities + Latinx Studies: Doing Work that Matters” Course, Indiana University-Purdue Indianapolis, Humanities Intensive Teaching & Learning (HILT) Conference, June 3-7
Fall 2017 Supervised Teaching in Rhetoric & Writing Course, The University of Texas at Austin
SERVICE
2019-2020 Faculty Hiring Committee Representative, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
2018-2020 Teaching Assistant Mentor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
2018-2020 Graduate Student Assembly Alternate, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
2018-2019 Co-Editor for “Latina/o Genre Shifts” Special Section, E3W Review of Books 2018 Panelist, Mellon Mays Gap Austin Graduate School Bootcamp, Common
Application Question and Answer Session, The University of Texas at Austin, May 10-11
2017 Panelist, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Southeast Regional Conference, Graduate Student Panel, The University of Texas at Austin, November 17-19 2015 Moderator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Southeast Regional Conference,
Undergraduate Research Panel, Rice University, November 6-8 2015-2016 Visitor Services Volunteer, Harry Ransom Center
2014-2015 Humanities Academic Student Mentor, Rice University PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Modern Language Association LANGUAGES
English (Native fluency) Spanish (Proficient)
