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SHEILA M. CONTRERAS
Assistant Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/355-2294 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
Contreras received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published in D. H. Lawrence Review, Reflexiones, and in Codex Aztlanahuac: Going Back to Where We Came From, forthcoming from Wings Press. Her research and teaching interests include Chicana/o Literature, Multi-ethnic literatures, the literatures and theories of travel and tourism, American Studies and Women's Studies. She has taught courses such as Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (ENG 351), Let's Go Mexico: Travel, Tourism and Revolution in the Early-Twentieth Century (AMS 891), and Nationalisms and Feminisms in the United States (AMS 891), in addition to Tier 1 American Thought and Language writing courses focusing on multi-ethnic literatures and the history of the City of Detroit.
In Spring 2003, Contreras will teach Latina Feminist Theory in the Women's Studies Program at MSU. She is co-chairing a dissertation in the Literature of the Americas concentration in English. Her current manuscript, Blood Lines: Indigenism and the Construction of Chicana/o Identity, critically examines literary articulations of Chicana/o indigenous ancestry as narrative strategies of resistance that draw from and reconstitute the discourses of primitivism.
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