research overview Dr. Rivera works on American Ethnic Literature and Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Archival Theory, Rhetoric and Composition, and Cross-Genre Studies. He is the Director of the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and editor of Shadowbox Magazine.
selected publications book The Emergence of Mexican America 2006 The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture 2006 chapter The Dream Act and Other Mexican American Questions 2016 Recovering Mexican America in the Classroom 2006 Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question 2004 Emma Tenayuca's "The Mexican Question in the Southwest" 2002 journal article Through the Eyes of Another: Lorenzo Zavala's (Un)Documented America. 122-130. 2016 Billy the Kid's Tombstone; or, Searching for the Publics of Creative Nonfiction. Writing on the Edge: a journal about writing and teaching writing. 15-23. 2014 RESPONSE.. English Language Notes. 1-3. 2012 "A Complete Though Bloody Victory": Lorenzo de Zavala and the Transnational Paradoxes of Sovereignty. American Literary History. 427-445. 2006 'La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra': Landscapes, Mexicans, and the Browning of America. AztlÁn. 123-146. 2005 Miguel Antonio Otero II, Billy the Kid's Body, and the Fight for New Mexican Manhood. Western American Literature. 47-57. 2000
courses taught ENGL 7849 Independent Study (Graduate Level 2) (Spring 2019) ENGL 8999 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2019) WRTG 3020 Topics in Writing (Spring 2019) ENGL 5169 Multicultural/Postcolonial Studies (Fall 2018) ENGL 8999 Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2018) ENGL 7849 Independent Study (Graduate Level 2) (Spring 2018) ENGL 8999 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2018)
education and training Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin 2000 M.A., University of Houston-Downtown 1996 B.A., University of California-Berkeley 1992
awards and honors Kayden Book Award Honorable Mention (College of Arts and Sciences), conferred by College of Arts and Sciences, 2007
