Barbara Curiel
Professor Barbara Curiel is a specialist is Chicano and Latino literature and in Chicano Studies. Her scholarship focuses on the work of authors Sandra Cisneros, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Ana Castillo, among others, which she studies in feminist and transnational contexts.
Barbara is a poet who has published in the U.S. and internationally since the 1970s: her work is included in major collections of Chicano literature. A native of San Francisco, California, Barbara’s family originates in northern and central Mexico, and in the U.S. southwest. She is a bilingual Spanish speaker attentive to borderlands cultures and identities.
Barbara teaches courses on Chicano and Latino literature, Chicano Studies, Women’s Studies, Creative Writing, and American literature.
Christina Accomando
Christina Accomando teaches multi-ethnic U.S. literature, ethnic studies, women's studies and Multicultural Queer Studies. Her scholarship focuses on the law and literature of U.S. slavery and resistance, including the work of Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, as well as contemporary issues of race, gender and the law.
Christina is the author of "The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance (Ohio State University Press), and her articles have appeared in Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan, and the Norton Critical Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, as well as journals including MELUS, African American Review, Feminism & Psychology, and The Antioch Review.
At HSU, Christina is the advisor for the Ethnic American Literatures minor and co-director of the Multicultural Queer Studies program. Her courses include "Power/Privilege," "Race, Gender and U.S. Law," "Multicultural Queer Narratives," "Performing Race and Gender," "Black Feminist Thought," "U.S. Literature by Women of Color," "Asian American Literatures," and "African American Literary Traditions."
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