Carl Gutiérrez-Jones: Profile

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of English 
and the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  
He received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University 
in 1990.  He is also the co-author of "Affirmative Action and Diversity: A Web Site for Research." 
This page was last revised October 21, 1999. 

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Research Interests:

• 20th Century American Culture
• Critical Race Studies
• Legal Culture
• Latin American Culture

Selected Bibliography:

Books

• Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse, University of California Press, 1995.
• "Race, Rhetoric and Injury" (in progress).

Articles

• "Colorblindness and Acting Out" (forthcoming in a collection edited by Donald Pease, Duke University Press).
• "Injury by Design." Cultural Critique 40 (fall 1998): 73-102.
• "The New Western History: Theory and Trauma in the Work of Patricia Limerick," Arizona Quarterly 53:2 (summer 1997): 135-153; reprinted in The New Western History: An Assessment. Edited by Forrest Robinson (University of Arizona Press): 135-52.
• "Desiring B/orders," diacritics 25.1 (March 1995): 99-112.
  
• "Resisting Cultural Dependency: The Manipulation of Surveillance and Paranoia in Alejandro Morales' The Brick People," The Américas Review 22.1-2 (Summer 1994): 230-243.
  
• "Caliban's America," review essay, American Quarterly 45.1 (March, 1993): 160-65.
  
• "Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Literary and Legal Discourse," Dispositio 16.41 (1991): 45-60.
  
• "Legal Hermeneutics and Cultural Capital: Notes toward Guerrilla Writing," diacritics 20.4 (winter,1990): 57-73.
  
• "Legislating Languages: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez and the English Language Amendment," The Américas Review 17.2 (summer, 1989): 61-71.
  

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Carl Gutiérrez-Jones,

Department of English

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

E-mail: carlgj@humanitas.ucsb.edu