Education
Ph.D. University of California San Diego June 2021 Literature
M.A. University of California San Diego March 2018 Literature
B.A. University of California San Diego June 2013 Literature - Honors: Highest Distinction
Research and Teaching Interests
- Contemporary Immigration Issues
- Anti-Racism
- Latinx Cultural Production
- Chicanx Cultural Production
- Intersectional Frameworks
- Climate Crisis and Environmental Racism
- British Poetics and Aesthetics
- American Poetics and Aesthetics
- Captivity and Prison Narratives
- Post-Colonialism
Selected Publications
Cortes, L.A. (2021). The Open Graves of Latina/os: Representations of a Latinx Horror in Pinto Poetics, Border Gothic, and Homeless Encampments in Los Angeles. UC San Diego. ProQuest ID: Cortes_ucsd_0033D_20274. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5q301kz. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b07s8hw
“Our Absence: The Missing Latinx Students in the Selective University.” Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom. (Accepted and Under Contract)
“Engraved Feminine Images.” The New Americanist Journal. (Accepted and In Review)
“The Betrayals of Passing.” Modernism and Literature. (Proposal Accepted)
Presentations
“Crossing Over: The Life and Death of the Narrative in Tattooed Soldier,” at the 37th annual conference for The Society for the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States April 20th - 23rd, 2023.
“Legal Living Entombment,” at the 52nd Annual Conference of the College English Association on March 30th - April 1st, 2023.
“Fosas Comunes: Representations of Mass Graves in Tattooed Soldier,” at the 50th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture on February 23rd - 25th, 2023.
“El Infierno: The Necropolitics of the U.S.-Mexico Border” at the 34th annual conference for The Society for the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States on April 8th - 10th, 2021 & at the 17th annual interdisciplinary conference for The Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on April 9th - 10th, 2021.
“Murderous Myths: Talking Dead in The River Flows North, Tattooed Soldier and the poetry of Judy Lucero,” at the Southern Humanities Conference on January 29th, 2023.
“Voices Beyond The Grave,” Keynote Address at the Center for Teaching Effectiveness on March 2nd, 2023.
“Entombed Voices,” Keynote Address at the 27th Sigma Delta Pi Student Symposium on November 17th, 2022.
Contact Information
Language and Literature
Fore Hall 201B
MSC 162 Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas 78363-8202
voice: 361-593-2514
email: luis.cortes@tamuk.edu
