Dr. Raul Villa
Professor Villa has a PhD in History of
Consciousness from the University of California,
Santa Cruz. His major areas of scholarly and
curricular expertise are in Chicano and U.S.
literature and popular culture, urban studies
(with a particular emphasis on Los Angeles
cultural studies), and Southwest/Borderlands
literature and expressive culture. His published
articles cover such topics and U.S.-Mexico
border balladry, intercultural relations in the
Southwest, and Chicano barrio fiction and
popular culture. He has
co-edited and authored several books: Urban
Latino Cultures: La vida latina en L.A.
(Sage Press, 1999), Barrio-Logos:
Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and
Culture (University of Texas, 2000), and Los
Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). He
is currently working on a monograph about poet,
artist and activist Jose Montoya through the
Cesar Chavez Research Center at UCLA. He
has been invited to lecture at schools, cultural
centers, colleges and universities across the
country and in Mexico
and France. Closer to home he has taken
students on field trips throughout Los Angeles
county, to the San Diego-Tijuana border and into
the Mojave desert as part of his classroom and
extracurricular activity.
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