Max Parra

rights advocate Benjamin Todd Jealous, UCSD professor and author Max Parra,
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-- Max Parra is the UCSD Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and culture, religious studies and popular poetics.He is also the author of numerous books and publications, including "Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution: Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico" (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005).Parra studied Letras hispanicas at the University of Mexico and Latin American literature at Hunter College, New York University and Columbia University.He is writing a book on regional memory and history in post-revolutionary Mexico, based on personal narratives, ballads and photographic archives.Parra is also investigating the topic of social violence and the politics of space in the recent urban literature of Mexico City and the San Diego-Tijuana region.

203 Dr, Max Parra, UC San Diego

Max ParraAssociate Professor of Latin American LiteratureUC San Diego

The California Council for the Humanities has appointed five new board members: attorney Robert Feyer, consumer and health policy advocate Ruth Holton-Hodson, civil and human rights advocate Benjamin Todd Jealous, UCSD professor and author Max Parra, and gay rights advocate Curtis F. Shepard.

by Professor Max Parra, poets Jorge Ortega, Laura
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Prof. Max ParraUniversity of California, San Diego.

The new members are attorney Robert Feyer, consumer and health policy advocate Ruth Holton-Hodson, civil and human rights advocate Benjamin Todd Jealous, UCSD professor and author Max Parra, and gay rights advocate Curtis F. Shepard.
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Max Parra is the UCSD Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and culture, religious studies and popular poetics.He is also the author of numerous books and publications, including "Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution: Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico" (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005).Parra studied Letras hispánicas at the University of Mexico and Latin American literature at Hunter College, New York University and Columbia University.He is writing a book on regional memory and history in post-revolutionary Mexico, based on personal narratives, ballads and photographic archives.Parra is also investigating the topic of social violence and the politics of space in the recent urban literature of Mexico City and the San Diego-Tijuana region.

Hosted by Professor Max Parra, poets Jorge Ortega, Laura Jauregui Murueta, Marta Gonzales and Adrian Arancibia will read peotry and disucss their experiences as writers.

by Max Parra
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Max Parra studies how these works articulate different and at times competing views about class and the cultural "otherness" of the rebellious masses.This unique revisionist study of the villista novel also offers a deeper look into the process of how a nation's collective identity is formed.

Max Parra is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, San Diego.