David Colón, Ph.D.
david.colon@tcu.eduReed Hall 414A
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., English, Stanford University, 2004
BA, English (Spanish minor), Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY),
1997
Courses Taught
Lower-division:
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Literature
Freshman Seminar: Reality in Latino Fiction
Major American Writers
Introduction to Latina/o Literature
Upper-division:
Prison Literature
American Poetry Survey
Contemporary Latino Literature
Mexican American Culture
Research Seminar in Global Literature
U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literature
Contemporary American Poetry
Graduate:
American Poetry II
Race and Gender in American Literature
Literature of the Latino/a Diaspora
Areas of Focus
Latino/a Literature & Culture
20th and 21st Century American Literature
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Poetry and Poetics
Contemporary Fiction
Literary Theory
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2022, Primary Author, with Max Krochmal et al. Latinx Studies Curriculum in K-12 Schools: A Practical Guide. Forward by Jacinto Ramos, Jr. TCU Press. 198 pp. -
2021, with Daniel Luis Archer. Introduction. "Latinidad, Memory, and Literature." 'Memory Studies and Latinidad,' Eds. David Colon and Daniel Luis Archer, Special Issue of JOLLAS: Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 11.1 (Spring). University of Nebraska-Omaha. 1-12.
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2021. "Locations of Contemporary Latina/o Poetry." The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry. Ed. Timothy P. Yu. Cambridge UP. 48-60.
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2018. “Making It Nuevo: Latina/o Modernist Poetics Remake High Euro-American Modernism.” The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature. Eds. John Morán González and Laura Lomas. Cambridge UP. 353-370.
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2018. "Marginal Erotics: Roberto Tejada’s Sexiness.” American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement. Eds. Claudia Rankine and Michael Dowdy. Wesleyan University Press. 380-397.
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2016. “Siempre Pa’l Arte: The Passions of Latina/o Spoken Word.” The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. Routledge.151-161.
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2015. “Heroic Insecurity in Junot Díaz’s Drown and This Is How You Lose Her.” Critical Insights: Contemporary Immigrant Short Fiction. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Salem Press. 134-147.
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2014. “Avant-Latino poetry.” Jacket2 (June 26th). Web.
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2013. Ed., Between Day and Night: New and Selected Poems 1946-2010. By Miguel González-Gerth. Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama. TCU Press. xl + 248 pp. (“Outstanding title,” Association of American University Presses, 2014)
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2012. The Lost Men, an allegory. Elsewhen Press. 192 pp. (Nominee, Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013)
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2012. “Nuyorican Poetry” and “Nuyorican Poets’ Café.” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th Edition. Eds. Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman. Princeton UP. 960-962.
- 2018. “Literature, Difference, and Validation,” invited lecture, McLean Middle School
and MacLean 6th Grade School Professional Learning Retreat, College of Education, TCU.
- 2017. “The Centuries-Long Hispanic Heritage of Being Colonized, Exploited, and Terrorized
for Anglo Profit,” keynote lecture, Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services’ Inclusiveness
Luncheon, TCU.
- 2017. “Some Things That Fiction Can Do (For Us),” invited lecture, Last Lecture Series,
TCU.
- 2017. “A Gendered, Secular Legacy of the Guadalupan Event,” keynote lecture, Texas
College English Association (TCEA) meeting, Conference of College Teachers of English
(CCTE), Tarrant County College-Northeast.
- 2016. “Publishing Your Research,” invited panel, Mellon Mays Fellows Professional
Network Biennial Conference, University of Pennsylvania.
- 2011. “Ibero-American Innovations in Modern Poetry,” Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty Annual Retreat, Princeton.
- 2011-2012. Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation.
- 2005-2008. Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley.
Last Updated: November 19, 2024