Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Assistant Professor, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program
Assistant Professor, Department of English
*On leave 2009-2010*

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Specialization and Research Interests
Chicano/a literatures; comparative ethnic literatures; colonial and early American literature; race and American literature; colonialism; post-colonialism and American literature; cultural studies.

Selected Publications

• The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), Editor with Eric Klinenberg, Irene Nexica, and Matt Wray. An interdisciplinary anthology of scholarship employing critical whiteness as an analytic category.
• "Critical Negotiations: Body and Space in Colonialist Discourse." Book Review solicited by Mississippi Quarterly of Black Body: Women, colonialism and Space by Radhika Mohanram. (Oct./Nov. 2001).
• "The Body as Text: The American Novel and Cultural Hybridity" in Looking Outwards, Gaining Insight (Udsyn Giver Indsigf). Journal of the Danish Research Academy, 1999.

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