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Tace Hedrick
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Research Areas
Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies; Feminist Theory; Feminist Art History; Women’s Studies
Biography
Associate Professor Tace Hedrick received her B.A. in English and Writing from the University of Colorado at Denver and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (20th-century Latin-American and French Literature and Contemporary Theory) from the University of Iowa. Before her joint appointment between English and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida, she taught at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. She currently offers courses in Chicana/o and Latina/o literature and theory as well as in Women’s Studies and feminist theory.
Dr. Hedrick’s book, Mestizo Modernisms: Race, Nation, and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900–1940 (Rutgers Press, 2003) examines the discourses of mestizaje, modernity, and nationalism in the work of several early 20th century Latin American modernist artists, including the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral.
Currently Dr. Hedrick is in the planning stages of her next
book, tentatively titled Playing the Myth: Latinos/Chicanos and
the Invention of History, 1963–1987. This work examines the
alternative and counterculture efforts of Chicana/o and U.S. Latino/a
civil rights movementsˆin literature, in art, as well as within state
institutions – to (re)historicize the experiences of marginalized
peoples within the
United States.
Professor Hedrick has published articles on bilingual Chicana/o poetry, U.S. Latinas and popular culture, César Vallejo’s poetry, and Brazilian literature in journals such as The Translator, Latin American Literary Review, and The Luso-Brazilian Review, as well as in collections such as Footnotes: On Shoes and The Returning Gaze: Primitivism and Identity in Latin America.
