 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. Uriel Murillo pedagogy intern/aide Office Hours and contact info! I am available to meet with students on Tuesday's from 3:30 to 5:00. Starbucks at West Commons works. Students can contact me at my umurillo23 AT gmail DOT com
Uriel Murillo Sosa does not take many selfies, so when
asked for a As a native of the exotic land of Guadalajara, Uriel had some trouble explaining his name to los gringos when moving to California at the age of 5. He soon realized that it was much more efficient to simply add new pronunciations of his name to a list, rather then provide a fifteen minute Spanish lesson to each individual he met. He’s cool with that. Having been raised in a not-so-well-known country town in Santa Barbara County, he quickly assured himself that the cowboy life was not meant for him and endeavored to get the heck out. Eventually he ended up as close to Mexico as possible without leaving the country by attending San Diego State University. This interesting journey has led him to question his cultural identity: Is he Mexican, American, Mexican-American, ni de aquí ni de allá, or perhaps just Californian???Hmmm…..complicated. Although the English language caused him some trouble in his early years, his quick mastery of el Inglés created in him an appetite for reading, writing, and illustration which collectively lead to new ways of creative thinking, intellectual exploration, and personal growth. Through the English Major, Uriel has developed various methods of analysis and expression, while a Minor in Religious Studies has enabled him to connect with the diverse peoples, cultures, traditions, histories, and perspectives of the world as well as the vast spiritual consciousness within himself. One of his proudest achievements is having successfully infiltrated the Disneyland empire through the Disney College Program and graduating from Disney University. During his off time, Uriel enjoys sleeping, playing the guitar/ukele, singing classic Latin songs about heartbreak, reading, watching science fiction movies, and the occasional hike (in that order). His newest interests/undertakings include Latin American Literature, Aikido, learning Italian, and eating jars and jars and jars of Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter. Uriel still has a flip phone, because he fears the powers of advanced technology at his fingertips. He also currently sees robots everywhere.When asked what he plans to do with a degree in English, Uriel thinks about everything he has accomplished without it. Uriel rarely speaks of himself in the third person or takes himself seriously. -¡Zas!
Dr. William
Nericcio
home  |
picture, he goes
all out.
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.