Guisela Latorre

Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

As a newly hired faculty in the Department of Chicano Studies at UCSB, I will be teaching four courses on Chicana/o art for the 2002-2003 academic year, three of which are completely new classes to the departmental curriculum. These are Chicana Art and Feminism, Contemporary Chicana/o Art, Humor and the Chicana/o Artist and Figuration in Chicana/o Art. With these courses, I will be filling a void that currently exists in the discipline of Chicana/o studies as a whole, namely the focus on the visual arts. I look forward to working closely with the nationally renowned members of the UCSB Chicano Studies faculty and staff while also hoping to make important contributions to this strong department, especially in the development of their soon-to-be-established graduate program.