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Rachel Valentina González-Martin
210 W. 24th Street, F9200
Austin, Texas 78712
[email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2014-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies,
University of Texas
Faculty Affiliate: Center for Mexican American Studies
Associate Faculty: Center for Women and Gender Studies
EDUCATION:
2014
Ph.D.
Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
2008 M.A.
Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
2004 B.A.
Anthropology, University of California
PUBLICATIONS:
Refereed Journals
2016
“Digitizing Cultural Economies: ‘Personalization’ and US Quinceañera Practice
Online.” Cultural Analysis. Fall 2016.
2017
“Quinceañeras as Ephemeral Autobiography: Narrating Latina LivedExperiences in America’s Heartland.” Special Issue of The Journal of Latin
American and Latino Studies, “Latinas/os and the Midwest”. Aidé Acosta and
Sylvia Martinez, eds.
2007
“ ‘Como Dice el Dicho’: Spanish Language Proverb Use and the Politics of
Bilingual Speech.” Journal of International Proverb Scholarship, 24: 167-188.
Edited Books
2018
Gonzalez-Martin, Rachel & Domino R. Perez (Eds). Race and Cultural Practice
in Popular Culture. (in-progress)
Book Chapters
2016
“Barrio Rites and Pop Rituals: Quinceañeras in the Folklore-Popular
Culture Borderlands.” In The Latino Pop Cultural Studies Reader.
Fredrick Luis Aldama, ed. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Forthcoming
“Buying the Dream: Relating “Traditional” Dress and Consumerism within U.S.
Quinceañeras.” In meXicana Fashion: Self-Adornment, Identity Constructions,
and Political Self-Presentations. Norma E. Cantú and Aída Hurtado, eds.
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Online Publications
2015
Review of Américo Paredes: Culture and Critique. José E. Limón. Journal of
Folklore Research Reviews.<http://www.jfr.indiana.edu /review.php?id=1503>
2011
Review of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual Altarities. Laura E. Pérez.
Museum Anthropology Review Vol 5, No. 1-2. <http://scholarworks. iu.edu/
journals/ index.php/ mar/article/view/1107/1361>
2009
Review of There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture.
Dómino R. Perez. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. October. <
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=740>
2007
Review of Chicano Folklore: A Handbook. Maria Herrera-Sobek. Journal of
Folklore Research Reviews. May. <http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/ review.
php?id =447>
2007
Review of Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico
and Beyond. Stanley Brandes. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. November.
< http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review. php?id=483>
2006
Review of Pachangas: Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, and Transnational
Marketing. Margaret E. Dorsey. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. October.
< http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/ review.php?id=283>
Manuscripts in Preparation
2015
Coming Out Latina: Quinceañera Style and Latina/o Consumer Identities
Other Publications
2012
“Albures.” Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural
Traditions. Maria Herrera-Sobek, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
2012
“Bato.” Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions.
Maria Herrera-Sobek, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
2012
“Caló.” Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions.
Maria Herrera-Sobek, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
2012
“Verbal Dueling.” Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural
Traditions. Maria Herrera-Sobek, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2016-17
2016
2015
2013
2013
College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts,
Summer Research Assignment, College of Liberal Arts
Faculty Travel Grant, University of Texas
American Folklore Society, Eli Kongas Miranda Women’s Section Paper Prize
Gerald L. Davis Travel Grant, American Folklore Society
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2008
2008
Henry Glassie Award for Distinguished Student Teaching, Indiana University
Graduate Student Travel Grant, American Folklore Society
INVITED TALKS:
2016
“Commoditizing Folkloric Practice: Quinceañera Case Study” Guest Lecture,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 8.
2016
“Culture, Capital, and ‘Upscale’ Latina Consumers,” Symposium on Middle Class
Latinas/os, Latino Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington,
September 23.
2015
“Americo Paredes and the Interdisciplinary Legacy of Folklore.” University
of Texas, Americo Paredes Centennial Celebration, November 5, 2015.
2015
“The Scent of Copal: Individual Rituals of Collective Remembering.”31
Years of Mexic-Arte Museum’s Día de los Muertos: A Voice of the
Community, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas November 7, 2015.
2015
“Consuming and Consumption: Ritual Food and Social Power in U.S.
Quinceañera Celebrations.” Texas-Foodways Symposium: The Texas-Mexican
Table, San Antonio, Texas, May 7-9.
2015
“Quinceañera U.S.A: Latina/o Folkloristics in the 21st Century.” Jovita Gonzalez
Memorial Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin.
2015
“Latina/o Culture and Tradition: Quinceañera.” Diversity Training Seminar,
Office of Organizational Development and Diversity, Division of Housing and
Food Service, University of Texas, Austin.
2013
“Embodied Storytelling in the Heartland: Performing and Documenting Latina
Quinceañeras in the Midwest.” Newberry Library Seminar Fall Mini-Conference
on Borderlands and Latino Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois,
November 6, 2013.
2013
“Culture-for-Sale: Traditional Dress, Consumer Citizenship and U.S.
Quinceañeras.” Fall Symposium: “Fashonitas Fabulosas/os,” Center for Mexican
American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, November 9, 2013.
2013
“Form, Function, Fabulous: Performing La Nueva Americana.” La Casa
Hispánica, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, October 17, 2013.
2013
“The Power of Mentoring: El Centro Communal Latino and High School
Advocacy in Bloomington, IN.” Indiana University-Purdue University Latino
Leadership Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2, 2013
2013
“Cultural Consumerism & Latino Consumer Capital in the United States.” The
14th Annual Purdue University Latino Leadership Retreat, Lafayette, Indiana,
January 26, 2013.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Organized Panels
2016
Chair, “Race and Racialization in Folklore Study and Practice.” Cultural Diversity
Committee Professionalization Series, National Meeting of the American Folklore
Society, Miami, Florida, October 19-22.
2016
Chair, “Latina/o Youth Culture and Communities of Practice.” National Meeting
of the American Folklore Society, Miami, Florida, October 19-22.
2015
Chair, “Folklore 101: Folklore 101: Foundation, Community, and Inclusion.”
Cultural Diversity Committee Professionalization Series, National Meeting
of the American Folklore Society, Long Beach, California, October 14-17.
2015
Chair, “Ritual and Pageantry en las Americas.” National Meeting of the American
Folklore Society, Long Beach, California, October 14-17.
2015
Chair, “Queering Quinceañeras: Ritual, Embodiment and Transformation.” Tejas
Foco: National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Houston, Texas,
February 26-28th.
2014
Chair, “Examining a Critical Latino Folkloristics: Pedagogy and Theory.” National
Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 5-8.
2013
“Seeing Clearly through Blurred Boundaries: Performing and Documenting
Latina Quinceañeras in the Midwest.” Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
(MALCS) Summer Institute, Columbus, Ohio, July 17-20.
2008
“Intimate Discourses/ Discourse of the Intimate: Re- imagining the Ethnographic
Experience from an ‘Insider’ Perspective.” National Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, California, November 19-23.
Presentations
2016
“Quinceañera Autotopographies: Youth, Race, and Pathologizing Poverty.”
National Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Miami, Florida, October 1922.
2015
“La Niña de la Portada: Quinceañera Aesthetics and the Making of “Miss Cover
Girl.” National Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Long Beach, California,
October 14-17.
2015
[Accepted] “ ‘Counter’-Narratives: Tradition, Transformation & Ephemeral
Spaces.” National Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Riverside,
California, May 21-24.
2013
“Relocating “Latino” Folklore: Quinceañeras in America’s Heartland.” National
Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Providence, Rhode Island, October 1619.
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2012
“Buying the Dream: Coming of Age and Commercial Culture Among American
Latinos.” National Meeting of the American Folklore Society, New Orleans,
Louisiana, October 24-27.
2011
“Curating Community: Visual Narratives in Quinceañera Celebrations.”
National Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Bloomington, Indiana,
October 12-15.
2010
“‘You only Turn 15 Once!’: Imagining an American Quinceañera.” New York
Folklore Society, New York, New York, November 20.
2009
“Absent or Adorned: Dress Choice in American Quinceañera Celebrations.”
National Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Boise, Idaho, October 21-24.
2008
“Marking Borders on the Body: Ritual Dress and Transnational Identities in
Mexican American Quinceañera.” National Meeting of the American Folklore
Society, Louisville, Kentucky, October 22-26.
2008
“Ritual Dress and Transnationality in Mexican American Quinceañeras.” Indiana
University Symposium on Dress and Adornment, Bloomington, Indiana, April
18-19.
2008
“Cuando Juegue El Albur: Notions of Intimacy and Formalized Dueling in
Mexican Sexy Comedies.” Central States Anthropological Society, Indianapolis,
Indiana, March 27-29.
2007
“Creating the Authentic Quince: Food Politics and the Construction of MexicanAmerican Identity.” Joint Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the
Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Québec, Canada, October 17-21.
2007
“Los Mujeres También Juegan, the Women Also Play: Crossing Gendered
Boundaries through Bawdy Word-Play in Mexican Popular Film.” University of
Iowa Symposium on Obscenity, Iowa City, Iowa, March 2-3.
2006
“Cuando Juegue el Albur: Formalized Verbal Dueling Among Mexicanos
in Popular Media.” National Meeting of the American Folklore Society,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-22.
2006
“‘Como Dice el Dicho’: Spanish Language Proverb Use among Bilingual Speakers.”
Western States Folklore Society, Berkeley, California, April 20-21.
2005
Prostitutes, Drunks and Saints: The Legends of Maximón.” National Meeting of
the American Folklore Society, Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-23.
2005
¡Hijos de la Chingada!: Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Mexican-American
Male Verbal Dueling.” National Meeting of the Popular Culture/American
Culture Association, San Diego, California, March 25-26.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Texas, Assistant Professor
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Graduate:
Introduction to Mexican American Cultural Studies (Fall 2015)
Undergraduate:
Latina/o Spirituality (Fall 2015)
Mexican American Cultural Studies Seminar (Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
Mexican American and Latina/o Folklore Across the United States (Spring 2015)
Internship and Readings: Latina/o Representation and Museum Studies (Spring
2016)
SERVICE:
University of Texas
Graduate Committees
AY 2015-17 Thesis Committee, Chair, Seiri Aragon, MALS
Thesis Committee, Chair, Elena Perez-Zetuñe, MALS
Thesis Committee, Chair, Sierra Salazar, WGS
AY 2015-16
Thesis Committee, Second Reader: Kathryn McDonald, LILAS
Undergraduate Committees
AY 2015-16
Honors Thesis Committee, Advisor, Celia Valles, BDP
College of Liberal Arts
SPRING 2016 Rapoport Service Scholars Selection Committee
SPRING 2015 Rapoport Service Scholars Selection Committee
Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS)
Spring 2016 Organizer, CMAS Student Research Symposium, “Latina/o Spirituality and
Practice in the Hemispheric Americas,” March 28, 2016.
Co-Presenter, Explore UT, “Fantastic Folktales: La Llorona, El Cucuy, and More!”
March 5, 2016.
Center for Women and Gender Studies
SPRING 2016 Moderator and Discussant, “ Latina Practices of Self Care” 2016 CWGS Graduate
Student Conference, (Un)Soundness of Being: Feminist Approaches to Health
and Healing, March 23, 2016.
SPRING 2015 Gender, Childhood and Youth Research Cluster
Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies
SPRING 2016 “Clothing Speaks! (But what does it say?)”, Outreach Presentation, Martin Middle
School Campus Visit, February 1st.
AY 2015—16
Faculty Advisor, FLOR (Future Leaders On the Rise) Student Group
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FALL 2014
-Present
Curriculum Planning Committee
SPRING 2015
Planning Committee: Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa Conference
Executive Committee
FALL 2014SPRING 2016 Faculty Search Committee
2015-2016: Senior Search, Queer Latina/o Studies Position.
2014-2015: Senior Social Scientist, Historian, Senior Social Scientist,
Sociologist Positions.
American Folklore Society
2015-2018
Local Planning Committee, AFS 2018 National Meeting, Austin, Texas.
2015-2018
Member, Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee
2014-2008
Convener, Folklore Latino/a, Latino Americano, Caribeño Section
2013-2010
Convener, Chicana/o Section of the American Folklore Society.
2007-2006
Graduate Student Working Group
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Folklore Society (2005- Present)
Cultural Studies Association (2014-Present)
American Studies Association (2015-Present)
American Anthropological Association (2008-present)
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) (2013-Present)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2013-2015)
Costume Society of America (2009-2013)
Latin American Studies Association (2010-2012)