 Michael Edmiston  [The ROBOTS--Abugabara
thru FOSTER]
Office Hours are in AL 276, and I will be there to hang out Mondays from 1 to 2pm. email me at: medmiston42 AT gmail DOT com We are the community of cells, bacteria, mitochondria, and various intangibles known as Michael Macrae Enciso Edmiston. We have been blessed and cursed with a ravenous curiosity about pretty much everything, which sometimes gets us into trouble but has also landed us a gig in this badass class. We are adept at emblazoning glyphs onto sheets of dead tree flesh and electric light-emitting rectangles, as well as producing patterned vibrations in the air around us. We exercised and developed these skills at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where we received a B.A. in Theater. We are interested in far too many things to specialize, however, which is why we are currently enrolled in the MALAS program. Ryan Kelly [The CYBORGS--FRIEDBERG thru MORENO] Office Hours are Tues/Thurs 12:30-1:30 in AL 264--students can reach me rfk.ish AT gmail DOT com Ryan Kelly spends almost every minute of his life thinking about  words,
and how to put them together. Despite all contrary
evidence, he believes that one day the world might
listen to and value these words. Ryan often wishes he
were the Cheshire Cat, so that he could disappear and
leave behind nothing but his floating grin. He can often
be found catwalking the fence between accessible and
askew. Ryan hopes to one day be famous enough to use as
many ampersands & exclamation points as he wants!
But he would also settle for being one of the three
things that walks into a bar at the beginning of jokes.
He’s focuses on speculative and surreal fiction, and
prefers his reading and writing to be an escape from the
“he said, she said” blotto blather of everyday life. As
an MFA student at SDSU, he's working on a collection of
stories called Stumblr, which satirizes the
technological mania of our current culture, and
illustrates the overwhelming and perverse influence of
media on daily life. You can find his published work at
www.ryanfranciskelly.com
or follow him on Twitter @RFrancisKelly.
Stephany Farley  [The ANDROIDS--MORGAN thru ZIEGLER] Office Hours and contact info: I am available from 12:30-1:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays in AL 244 and they can reach me at SFARLEY AT rohan DOT sdsu DOT edu Stephany Farley is what you might call a “racial cyborg.” Just as a cyborg is half human and half machine, Stephany is half Mexican and half white. And, just as some cyborgs can pass for human, you might have noticed that Stephany just looks white. Because of this aspect of her being, Stephany is deeply invested in racial justice, issues of representation and belonging, and what it might mean to be “of color” in the 21st century. Though she herself is straight, through her involvement in anti-racist organizing, Stephany also has close ties to San Diego’s LGBT communities. She co-founded and helps to run the San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation, a local nonprofit that works to preserve promote and teach works by LGBT artists of color. She is pictured here with two amazing gay Puerto Rican writers, Charles Rice González and Emanuel Xavier, who came to San Diego in November for the Foundation’s One-Year Anniversary. She is most happy at home with her cat Barnaby, engrossed in trashy vampire television.
Dr. William
Nericcio
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William Anthony Nericcio directs a
cultural studies graduate program known as MALAS
(the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences) at
San Diego State University--the program, known as
the "MA in Curiosity," is an interdisciplinary
studies program open to undergraduates with degrees
in all majors . Additionally, he serves as a
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and
a member of the faculties in the department of
Chicana/o Studies (CCS) and the Center for Latin
American Studies (CLAS). Nericcio dabbles in
and publishes in various fields including 20th and
21st century American Literature, Latin American
Studies, Chicana/Chicano Studies, Film Theory,
Cultural Studies, and semiotics (digital, cyber,
& old school analogue)--though whispers suggest
he is best known as a Chicano devotee of continental
deconstruction. He has published articles on Orson
Welles' proto-Chicano masterpiece Touch of Evil, on
the polticial vacillations of Octavio Paz, Pee-wee
Herman's unfortunate encounter with sexual policing,
Frida Kahlo's ghostly collaboration with Gilbert
Hernandez, and more. Nericcio's primary ongoing
critical work is an illustrated history of Mexican
and Latina/o stereotypes, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive
Hallucinations of the "Mexican" In
America. Nericcio is presently putting
the finishing touches on EYEGIENE for UT Press . He
received his English BA from the University of Texas
in 1984, working there with Ramon Saldivar, Richard
Simon, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Elizabeth
Cullingford. In 1989 he completed his PhD in
Comparative Literature from Cornell
University. His first posting was at the
University of Connecticut, Storrs, followed by his
present gig at San Diego State University.