Erlinda Gonzales-Berry was Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at Oregon State University for ten years, retiring in December 2007. Prior to arriving at OSU she was a professor of Spanish and Chicano/Latino Culture and Literatures at the University of New Mexico, where she also served as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She has also held positions at Earlham College and New Mexico State University. Professor Gonzales-Berry has published extensively on Chicano and Nuevomexicano literature and culture and her current research interest is immigration from Mexico to the U.S. She has served on the Board of the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, the MLA Executive board of American Departments of Foreign Languages, the MLA Advisory Board on the Languages & Literatures of America, the National Advisory Board of the U.S. Latino Literary Heritage Project.
BA, MA, PH.D. University of New Mexico
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Teaching
Courses she taught at OSU include:
- ES 211 - Survey of Chicano/a Studies I
- ES 211 - Survey of Chicano/a Studies II
- ES 213 - Contemporary Latino/a Culture and Issues
- ES 311 - Narratives of Latino Migrations
- ES 314 - Chicano/a Literature
- ES 411 - Chicano/as in/on Film
- ES 499/599 - Gender Issues in Latino Communities
- ES 499/599 - Literature by Mexicano/a and Chicana/o Writers
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Research and Awards
- Change Through Education Award, OSU MEChA, 2005
- Service Recognition Award, OSU Difference, Power and Discrimination Program, Fall 2004
- Corvallis Gazette Times Twenty First Century Leaders Recognition, 2001
- Oregon Innovators in Education Award of Excellence, Business Education Compact of Linn and Benton Counties, 2000
- OSU Woman of Achievement Award, Women's Center, 2001
- Fulbright Teaching Award, Germany, March-July, 1990
- Outstanding Teacher, Hispanics for the University of New Mexico, 1991
- Teacher of the Year Award, University of New Mexico, 1984
Select List of Publications:
- Herencia: The Anthology of the Hispanic Literary Heritage. London: Oxford University Press, September 2001 [with Nicolas Kanellos, Kenya Dworkin, José Fernández, Agnes Lugo, Chuck Tatum].
- En otra voz: Antologia de Literatura Hispana en Los Estados Unidos. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2002 [with Nicolas Kanellos, Kenya Dworkin, José Fernández., Agnes Lugo, Chuck Tatum].
- The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 2000 [with David Maciel].
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Tradition II. Houston: Arte Público Press; 1996 [with Chuck Tatum]
- Paletitas de Guayaba, a novella. Albuquerque: El Norte Publications, 1991.
- "Fixing Immigration: Some Things to Consider." The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 15:15, April 25, 2005, p. 60.
- "And Gladly Did They Teach: Nuevomexicanas in Rural Education." Voces: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, III:2 (Spring 2001):115-133.
- Erotics and Politics in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico: Eusebio Chacon's Tras la Tormenta la Calma. Western American Literature, Spring 2000, pp. 58-74.
- "Estevan Arellano's Inocencio: Inside Ethnographer Does Local Culture." Confluencia 14:2 (Spring, 1999): 45-55.
- "From Sojourners to Settlers: Mexicanos in Oregon in the Pre-Irca Years." Judith Li, ed., Finding Our Place: A Cultural Ecology of the Far West. [Forthcoming].
- La hermosa lengua de Cervantes: An Esthetic and Utilitarian Defense of Spanish in New México, 1890-1920. Kenya Dworkin and Agnes Lugo, eds., Recovering the Hispanic Literary Hertage IV. Houston: Arte Publico Press (Forthcoming).
- Como Dios Manda: Political Messaniasm in Manuel C. de Baca's Noches tenobrosas en el Condado de San Miguel. María Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sanchez Korrol, eds., Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage III. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2000, pp. 50-60.
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Professional Affiliations and Services
- Co-Editory, Pasó por aquí Series, University of New Mexico Press, 1992-present
- Editorial Board, Oregon State University Press, 2002-2004
- Chair, Planning Committee, Sojourners, Settlers, and New Immigrants: Mexicanos In Oregon Ayer y Hoy, Oregon State University, May 2005.
- Co-Chair, Planning Commmittee, Mujeres Despertando Conciencia: A Conference on Latina and Chicana Women in the Northwest, Woodburn, Oregon, February 2002
- Member Planning Committee, National Chicano and Chicana Studies Conference, Portland, 2000
- ADFL Job Counselor, Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, 1998
- Member, MLA Committee on Languages and Literatures of the Americas, 1997-2000
- Associate Editor, Voces: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, 1997-2001
- Judge, Premio de Literatura Antonio Mares Fuentes, Universidad Autónoma de Juárez, Spring, 1996
- Chair, External Review Panel, Graduate Programs in the Humanities, University of California, Irvine, March 1995
- Member, Executive Board, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1995-1998
- Member, Executive Board, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1995
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