Hold on to your hats! I am back in the classroom this Spring 2010!!! Two new classes click here for Engl 563 info; engl 549 info, on the way!

William A. Nericcio Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences & Professor, English & Comparative Literature Arts and Letters 226c San Diego State University 5500 Campanile San Diego, California 92182-6020 619.594.1524 (phone) 619.594.4998 (fax) memo@sdsu.edu or litchair@mail.sdsu.edu Academic Postings Professor, English & Comparative Literature | Professor, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) | Director, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts (MALAS) | Professor, Chicano/Chicana Studies (CCS) The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog--a Tex[t]-Mex book supplement; direct UTPress book link, here; various and sundry reviews and clippings here. Hit this link and you will be instantly linked to a sprawling survey of a theory-besmattered, Mexican-American professor's academic odyssey—but beware! the site teems with photos, ephemera, sordid chisme, and much, much more of the headache-inducing eye-candy you already see on this page. Memogr@phics Designcasa™ An illustrated gallery of my graphic design portfolio for SDSU Press & Hyperbole Books. Another, newer portfolio is here at veer.com. Editorial Portfolios Hyperbole Books  San Diego State University Press "Brush With Fame" Archive Mexican writer and an influential mentor, Carlos Fuentes, makes a cameo here and in San Diego. William Nericcio Are you a former student? Keep in touch via facebook! The American Library Association's Choice Awards  selected Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America as one of 2007's 10  "Outstanding Academic Titles" in Film Studies--click the Librarian for more info. Tex[t]-Mex was a nominee (damned academy!) for the 2007 MLA Award in Chicana/o, Latina/o Cultural Studies Teaching Portfolio Beware the Professor! libel, abuse, and an occasional, kind word from students @ ratemyprofessor "The author of Tex[t]-Mex is also a border-born Tejano who is genuinely appalled at what passes for Mexican in the U.S. media. But he doesn´t get snitty about it, doesn't scold (too much), keeps his theoretical feet on the decidedly non-theoretical ground, and sees the humor in all of it. Which sets him apart from the pomo crowd he runs with, and makes Tex[t]-Mex a valuable, sometimes hilarious, maybe even loveable, but surely learned, condemnation of stereotypes."                                                                             Kelly Arthur Garrett, Mexico, DF Inject my new class! Coming to literature.sdsu.edu in January 2010! ENGL 563: Drugs, Sex, & Rock'nRoll: Seductive Hallucinations of Film, Photography, Art, Music, and Literature TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS FROM 9:30am TO 10:45am Open to all majors! film, art, theatre, music, and television majors encouraged to add this vice to your spring menu of dynamic courses from SDSU! An edited collection on contemporary Latina/o theatre: An edited collection on John Steinbeck: Cultural Studies | Queer Theory | TV JOURNALISTS WATCH SHERIFFS WATCH PEE-WEE WATCH  | 2004 (pdf file). Art Hist. | Latin Am. /Chicana/o Studies SEMI[ER]OTIC GLANCES | FRIDA KAHLO GILBERT HERNANDEZ | 2003 (pdf file) Ethnic American Theory | Film Theory RITA HAYWORTH, DERRIDA,  BORGES and EXISTENTIAL ELECTROLYSIS | 2003 (pdf file) RECENTLY REVIEWED!!! pdf version chicana/o studies scholarship border studies scholarship graphic narrative/semiotic scholarship ORSON WELLES AS A CHICANO CIRCA 1994 RE-MEMBERING LAREDO: TRUTH AT THE BORDER CIRCA 1995 ARTIF{R}ACTURE | COMIX | NARRATIVE CIRCA 1995 ESSAYS ESSAYS ESSAYS Hollywood | Ethnic Theory | Cultural Studies SPEEDY GONZALES | AUTOPSY OF A RAT : Latino Marionettes in US Mass Culture | CAMERA OBSCURA pdf | 1998 Critical Theory | Semiotics | Latin America CARLOS FUENTES / SKIP GATES / SYLVERE LOTRINGER / STUART EWEN | CIRCA 1990 | Review Article | note: huge jpg files American Lit | Latin American Lit BORGES & BORGES / DAITCH / DERRIDA-- MIRRORING FICTIONS | CIRCA 1993 | pdf  2.1mb file LECTURES LECTURES LECTURES Cal State Fullerton, April 13, 2009 Oh beloved, Texas Longhorns of Austin, forgive me, but I invaded Ohio State University on February 23, 2009 for a reading/signing with my UT Press stable-mate, Guisela Latorre!  More info here. Ohio State University, February 23. 2009 Saturday, April 26, 2008 April 28, 2008 CalState Northridge DIVA CONFERENCE! More INFO! May 5, 2008 CINCO DE MAYO MESA COLLEGE BEYOND BAROQUE with TOMÁS RILEY!!! More info! past speaking gigs UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA *click* the logo for a big image of the event! April 16, 2008! Skylight Books in Los Feliz en Los Angeles, Califas! Reading and signing November 7, 2007 Wednesday-- 7:30pm more info on the reading! USC, Los Angeles, CA, reading and signing November 8, 2007, Thursday. Laredo, Texas Gig! December 27. 2007 Sponsored by the International Bank of Commerce and hosted by Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Castillo, y Garza, Inc. Reading, lecture and signing Thursday November 1, 2007, 4-6pm UT AUSTIN, Austin, Texas Sponsored by UTPress, The Center for Mexican American Studies, The Department of English & the Cactus Cafe UTSA | Department of English Reading, lecture and signing | Monday, November 5, 2007, San Antonio, Texas Click here for the promo poster! Public Lecture Public Lecture Public Lecture CSUN TABOO CONFERENCE KEYNOTE APRIL 28, 2007 USD ENGLISH & ETHNIC STUDIES MAY 1, 2007 BORDERS BOOKSTORE MISSION VALLEY SIGNING MAY 17, 2007 Public Lecture Public Lecture Public Lecture THE VOYEUR'S BAD EYEGIENE: LATINA/O NATIONALITIES AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE PROSTHESIS NATIONALITY | CITIZENSHIP | IMMIGRATION AN AMERICAN STUDIES LECTURE SERIES PURDUE UNIVERSITY Friday February 16, 2007 WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGES: SCREENING LATINIDAD FILM SERIES OBERLIN COLLEGE March 15, 2007 DG Wills Bookstore La Jolla, CA Saturday March 24, 2007 BLOGS ART obscene machine blog ethnic mannequin tex[t]-mex blog WEBMASTER WORK WEBMASTER WORK MORE ONLINE ESSAYS/REVIEWS   London | Summer | 2007 London | Summer | 2005 SDSU Dept. of Engl & CompLit San Diego State University Press pacific REVIEW SDSU Press Gear SDSU LONDON CALLING Oliver Mayer's Joe Louis Blues Memogr@phics Designcasa CODICES CLAS Arts Conference SDSU MFA Program Fall 2001 SDSULondon CAFE LITERATI Literati boutique SDSU English & CompLit Alumni Page SDSU Medievalist Society 1st John Kennedy Toole Lecture The DECODER Club / e220 LIt BRUSH WITH CELEBRITY page COLGA / Whackjob Arts Portal SDSU Dept. of Chicana/o Studies HYPERBOLE Books (with Michael Buchmiller, senior memogr@phics designhaus agent)  ...a brief critical elegy--Jean Baudrillard, RIP A screengrab from Orson Welles's Touch of Evil with Charlton Heston as "Mexican" narcotics agent Miguel 'Mike' Vargas English 220 | Summer 1999 huge pdf DIGITAL ART Camera Obscura Cover Gallery SDSU Press Book & Catalogue Cover Gallery Watch Pee-wee Watch | IJCS 2004 "Artif[r]acture: Virulent Pictures, Graphic Narrative, and the Ideology of the Visual" Mosaic (1996) [Sadistic] California Dreaming: Pleasure in the Breaking of Mexican Bodies 2003 Robert Frank, the Beats, Literature and Film 2001 Almost Like Laredo: A Semiotic Travelogue of "The Gateway to Mexico" 1987-2002 RE-membering Laredo: ¿What is Truth at the Border? 1995 Sick Culture: Reading Across the Disciplines With Carlos Fuentes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sylvère Lotringer and Stuart EwenSpring 50 1990 Autopsy of a Rat: Latina/o Marionettes in US Mass Cutlrure BOOK REVIEWS   Stuart Gordon CHICANO-CROSSDRESSES Ray Bradbury--a review of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, 2003 A sassy Richard Rodriguez DAYS OF OBLIGATION Review A gritty Charles Bukowski PULP review A perhaps too-scathing and cheeky Rodolfo Anaya JALAMANTA review REVIEW--Denise Chavez's FACE OF AN ANGEL REVIEW--Rolando Hinojosa's THE USELESS SERVANTS       archived course  syllabi Teaching, Summer 2009 Fall 2008 | engl 220 Spring 2009 | Engl 493 Spring 2008 | C LT 210 English 493 Literature and Film The Obscene Machine Fall 2006 Introduction to Literature Seminar--The Seductive Hallucination-- featuring 500 (Five Hundred) amazing SDSU Undergraduates! and 8 equally stupendous graduate student GTAs!!! English 725 Seminar in Ethnic American Film and Literature: Ethnic Mannequins or the Obcene Machine comparative literature 594 literature and the arts spring 2006 english 301 psychological novel spring 2006 ENGL 700 CHASING DERRIDA SEMINAR LIGHTS CAMERA WRITING Fall 2005 COMPLIT 270B NAKED, LOUD & BROKEN COMEDY SINCE 1500 Fall 2005 English 560a Early British Literature Peculiar and Exotic circa 2000 e301 | SEXY BEASTS FREUD'S BASTARD CHILDREN SPRING 2005 COMPLIT 210 LITERATURE AFTER DERRIDA SPRING 2005 ANTHROPOLOGY 493 LONDON EYES UK FILM CULTURES MULTICULTURAL LIT SEMINAR ENGLISH 601, SDSU circa 1992 MALAS 600: Textual Bodies / Sexual Bodies GENDER THEORY CIRCA 1993 E577  MARX / FREUD / DICKENS 19TH CENT. TRIALOGUES SPRING 2000 e220 Intro to LIT SINEMATIC BODIES Fall 2004 complit 594 LIBIDINAL PROGENY DERRIDA, MAGE/WORD SP 2003 E606A Grad Seminar | Special Topics THE CHICANA/O NOVEL CIRCA 1999 e301 Tattooed Psyche Psychological Novel summer 2004 BODIES OF INK CUERPOS DE LUZ COMPLIT 270 B  CIRCA 1993 /SPRING English 220 PICTUREBOOK An Introduction to Literature circa 1998 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE  270B DECONSTRUCTED BODIES  World Literature CIRCA 1996 English 519 American Ethnic Literature:  The Seductive Mannequins CIRCA 1996 English 220  PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL The Naked Eye/ FALL 2003 Comp Lit 595 Glamour Literature and Aesthetics FALL 2003 E301 TATTOOED SOULS SUMMER 2001 E301 SINEMA:EROTIC & EXOTIC  PSYCHES IN LITERATURE & FILM  FALL 2002 e602 CRITICAL THEORY PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY FALL 2000 english 790 ENGLISH MA EXAM PREP G. PITT AND VIRGINIA WARNER  LECTURE SERIES SPRING 2003 COMPLIT 445 MODERN LATIN AM LIT & FILM PORTRAITS MASKS & SIGNATURES FALL 2002 e220 LIGHTS BODY INK Intro to LIT SPRING 2002 COMP LIT 580  LATINA WRITERS WINTER 2000  caution, large jpg file E301 Psychological Novel Caged Eye | webmaster A. Barkdoll 1st Web Class 1995! 11 years on the WWW E301 NAKED EYE: MADNESS / ART FALL 1997 ENGLISH 700: BORGES AND DERRIDA OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVES IN THE LIBRARY CIRCA 1998 E525 AMERICAN BABEL SPRING 2000 CompLIT 210 Intro to Comparative  Literature: Gender Image Power Text Fall 2002 COMPLIT 210  INTRO TO COMP LIT Text/ Sex/ Cult/ Psych Playgrounds  FALL 2000 e301 MARX ON THE COUCH FREUD AT THE BANK SUMMER 2002 COMPLIT 561  FICTION SPRING  2001 COMPLIT 595 LITERATURE & AESTHETICS Sighting Words SPRING 2002 COMPLIT 490 DYSTOPIAS/ UTOPIAS SPRING 1999 ENGLISH 494 MODERN AMERICAN FICTION MILLENNIUM VIRUS CIRCA 1999 ENGLISH 220 INTRO TO LITERATURE THE FRAMED EYE/I CIRCA 2000 ENGLISH 525 AMERICAN LIT 1950-NOW EROTIC NEUROTIC SEMIOTIC SPRING 2001 assorted lit doings assorted lit doings assorted lit doings CODICES SEMINAR DERRIDA/BENNINGTON CIRCA 1996 GGM SEMINAR  Spring SEMESTER CIRCA 1997 BORGES | DERRIDA SEMINAR SDSU ENGLISH CIRCA 1998   More from the BRUSH WITH FAME archive!!! heroes | mentors  heroes | mentors  heroes | mentors I thought I was trying to evolve an argument that would in some way just knock issues of veracity out of the water, that would make them almost laughable. But I ended up realizing that what I was trying to do was to find a mode of writing sexual fantasy, really, and exploring the way we project [it] onto the materials that we are supposedly studying-- not as something that might actually be happening within them (you know: the question of who fancies whom and of whether they repressed or acted on it and with what consequences), but rather as a way of conceptualizing the material and linking yourself to it....¶"Without," for me, is that funny state where you think you're doing one thing, then realize that you're doing something completely different, which always builds on the familiar quagmire of "knowledge." Irit Rogoff interview The future is part of desire, and desire is extremely important. I think it's very important in my novels and it has to do with want, it has to do with yearning, and with the way we strive towards what we merely call the obscure object of desire. This is, of course, never an innocent operation because it implies not only having what we want, but changing it according to our conception of it, changing the other person. The other person might very well resist not only our desire but our wanting to take over and change. And therefore, conflict, and therefore, narrative, novels, drama, and many other things. But I cannot understand the future without the category of desire and all that desire implies. Carlos Fuentes 1988   I just can't help writing by hand. One types by hand also. It is not that the hand disappears, but if I start typing, or working on the screen, I am dinosaur. I  find that it disappears from me. I have a secretary but she certainly does not type the stuff I write. I am from the manual typewriter era. The extraordinary editing capacities of the computer also touch me. That second typing on the screen is a creative moment. It is just not the first moment. Is writing the first moment we do not know. I consume the affect of writing by hand. Another reason is that I do a lot of work in areas where there no electricity at all. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1997   more heroes more heroes more heroes The madness in which the work of art is engulfed is the space of our work, it is the endless path to fulfillment, it is our mixed vocation of apostle and exegete. Michel Foucault Histoire de la Folie 1961   I feel sorry for you people who don't drink, 'cause when you wake up in the morning that's as good as you're going to feel all day. Dean Martin,  Rat Pack Benefit Concert 1964 What's the most widely held misconception about you and your work? That I'm a skeptical nihilist who doesn't believe in anything, who thinks nothing has meaning, and text has no meaning. That's stupid and utterly wrong, and only people who haven't read me say this. It's a misreading of my work that began 35 years ago, and it's difficult to destroy. I never said everything is linguistic and we're enclosed in language. In fact, I say the opposite, and the deconstruction of logocentrism was conceived to dismantle precisely this philosophy for which everything is language. Anyone who reads my work with attention understands that I insist on affirmation and faith, and that I'm full of respect for the texts I read.  jacques derrrida INTERVIEW with LAWeekly still more heroes still more heroes still more heroes elvis costello remedios varo will elder ink ART editorial duties  revelation dawg india ink Guillermo Nericcio García (2001) clicking on "dawg" links you to "afta's art," india ink, notebook, cornell university, 1985 the sound and the fury, william faulkner online digital art  online digital art  online digital art the typed subject digital art/mixed digital media guillermo nericcio garcía (1998) "The Mexicanesque Maus" digital art/mixed digital media guillermo nericcio garcía (1996) the existential guillotine digitial art/mixed digital media guillermo nericcio garcía (2002) office door the factory  bio y chisme

derrida | moving words and images

Tex[t]-Mex CLIPPINGS   New Review in Aztlán Review in A Contra/Corriente--click the Peña Ovalle .pdf link to continue! October 2007--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries ALA Choice, Significant Titles 2007 Award UTPRESS official Tex[t]-Mex website UTPRESS official site WITH Table of Contents & excerpt Tex[t]-Mex Gallery Blog: Archive of Materials for the (should the gods look favorably on sales) second addition of Tex[t]-Mex Cover Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America DG Wills Reading, La Jolla, March 2007--video. Sample pages from Tex[t]-Mex KPBS THESE DAYS interview on the book. For a direct mp3 "podcast," hit the KPBS logo to your right. Oberlin College, March 2007 | Promotional poster for March 2007 gig. Oberlin College, March 2007|  promo page Purdue American Studies, February 2007 American Studies Lecture. Gustavo Arellano Los Angeles Times Op-ed with Tex[t]-Mex citation San Diego City Beat story on 500 student lectures San Diego City Beat story on CFA/CSU strikes An index of related stories from the SDSU student newspaper. DG Wills cool promo poster by M. Buchmiller. DG Wills reading notice, San Diego Union-Tribune Notice in LaBLOGA Feature story in ENLACE, The Spanish-language supplement to The San Diego Union Tribune. Slightly augmented ad by UTPRESS that first appeared in New York Review of Books. San Diego Reader feature story; permalink  McAllen Monitor newspaper profile. Full-text | Martin Winchester interview with William Nericcio. USD | ENGLISH & ETHNIC STUDIES | MAY 1, 2007 | flyer CSUN | TABOO CONFERENCE | KEYNOTE Lecture | APRIL 28, 2007 | program Amazon Book Site w/annotated images Author web-index Author biography KUSI Morning Show Interview, San Diego, CA | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Imperial Valley College | Wednesday, May 16, 2007--Public lecture along with Manuel Paul Lopez! BORDERS BOOKSTORE | MISSION VALLEY | MAY 17, 2007 --Mexico City (El Universal) Web del Sol Review --San Diego (La Prensa) In Spanish! new! --Reuters Entrevista (Spanish) (image clipping from story) --Reuters Lifestyle (English) Laredo Morning Times Profile San Diego Union-Tribune Profile Village Voice Ask-a-Mexican piece on Speedy and Tex[t]-Mex. photos | permissions granted for re-use with attribution noted below dartboard use permitted!   new 1. credit: ©2007, guillermo nericcio garcía 2. credit: ©2007, guillermo nericcio garcía 3. credit: ©2005, guillermo nericcio garcía 4. credit: ©2007, guillermo nericcio garcía 5. credit: ©2003, guillermo nericcio garcía 6. credit: ©2007, guillermo nericcio garcía