Cristina RIVERA-GARZA - Ph.D. (University of Houston) Primary Office: LIT 432 Primary Phone: (858) 534-3488 Fall 2009 Teaching Schedule: Course: LTWR 8A Time: MWF 10:00-10:50 Location: HSS 1330 Course: LTWR 200 Time: M 1:00-3:50 Location: LIT 237

Professor of Writing Poetry and Fiction writing; history and literature; border cultures; hybrid writing A native of the border (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, 1964), Cristina Rivera Garza has lived and taught both in Mexico and the United States. She studied Urban Sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received her Ph.D in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 1995. Author of transdisciplinary works, written both in English and Spanish, she has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Iberoamerican Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz-FIL and the 2005 Anna Seghers in Berlin. She has published extensively on the social construction of mental illness and the history of Mexican psychiatry at the turn of the twentieth century. Some of her works have been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, German and Korean. Professor Rivera Garza writes La mano oblicua/The Oblique Hand, a weekly column for the cultural section of the Mexican newspaper Milenio. She also maintains No Hay Tal Lugar, her blog: www.cristinariveragarza.blogspot.com Selected Publications: La frontera más distante [The Outmost Border], (Mexico/España: Tusquets, 2008). La muerte me da [Death Gives Me] (México/España: Tusquets, 2007). La novela por los novelistas [The Novel by the Novelists], (México: FCE/Biblioteca Méxicana, 2007). Romper el hielo: Novísimas escrituras al pie de un volcán, editado por Cristina Rivera Garza, (Toluca: Bonobos-ITESM-Toluca, 2006). Los textos del yo [The Texts of the I] (México: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2004, primera reimpresion 2006).