Michelle Habell-Pallán
Department of Women Studies
University of Washington
Box 354345
Seattle, WA 98195-4345
Email: ington
Phone: 206 543-6981
Updated: 11/29/2007
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor: University of Washington.
Department of Women Studies. Autumn 2007-present.
Department of American Ethnic Studies. Autumn 2005-Spring 2007.
Adjunct Associate Professor: School of Music. Winter 2007.
Adjunct Associate Professor: Department of Communications. Fall 2007.
Faculty Affiliate: University of Washington. Latin American Studies Program. 2000-present.
Assistant Professor: University of Washington.
Department of American Ethnic Studies. 1998-2005.
Assistant Professor: Arizona State University.
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Faculty Affiliate: Women’s Studies Program
and Latin American Studies. Fall 1996-Spring 1998.
Visiting Scholar
Department of English. Cornell University. 2001-2002.
Education
Ph.D. Literature and Cultural Studies: University of California at Santa Cruz, 1997.
Dissertation: " 'Cutting the Label Out': Performing Identity, Cultural Politics, and Transnational Subjects in Chicana/o and Latina/o Cultural Production." Dissertation Advisor: Jose D. Saldívar. Departments of English and Ethnic Studies. University of California at Berkeley.
M.A. American Literature: University of California at San Diego, 1993.
B.A. English: San Diego State University, 1989.
Selected Fellowships and Grants
Research Fellowships:
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship. The Dynamics of Chicana/o Literacy Center. Center for Chicano Studies. University of California at Santa Barbara. 2002-2003.
A.W. Mellon Foundation. Career Enhancement Fellowship for Underrepresented Junior Faculty. Administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 2001-2002.
Rockefeller Foundation Research Team Fellow. Rockin’ Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock [Music] in Latin America. Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center at Bellagio (Italy). Summer 2002.
Smithsonian Institution. Latino Studies Program Postdoctoral Fellowship. Division of Cultural History. Washington, D.C. Summer 2002.
University of California Humanities Research Institute. Research Fellow. "Placing Popular Music: Nation, Citizenship, Diaspora." UC Irvine. Winter 2002.
The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship. University of California at San Diego. 1997-1999.
Research Grants
Fall 2007. Associate Professor Research Initiative Award. One-quarter research support for Beat Migration: Chicano and Latino Roots of Contemporary Américan Pop Music (Single-authored mansuscript). UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Winter 2006. UW Simpson Center for the Humanities. Funding for Graduate Seminar. U.S. Latinas and Latinos in U.S. Popular Culture.
Winter 2005. Funding for "Latinos in U.S. Popular Music" for symposium in Winter and Spring 2005. Symposium will support the development of a museum exhibit on Latino contributions to U.S. popular music to be presented at the Experience Music Project museum (EMP) in Seattle. Walter Chapin Simpson Center. Matching grant from the Paul Allen Foundation.
College of Arts and Sciences 4x4 Writing-Integrated Course Design Initiative. University of Washington. 2004-2005.
Fall 2003. Funding for final preparation of manuscript, The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture. Office of the Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, Univ. of Washington
Summer 2002. International Travel Grant. Office of Graduate Studies and Research. Univ. of Washington. Summer 2002.
Spring 2000. Grant, Curriculum Transformation Seminar, Ford Foundation, Univ. of Washington.
Conference funding for "Transforming Public and Academic Cultures: American Ethnic Studies for the New Millennium." A Two-Day Symposium Series held in May 2000 at the University of Washington's Ethnic Cultural Center and Theater Complex. Co-organizers: Rick Bonus, Paul C. Taylor, and Patrick Rivers.
Funding to Support Outreach to Rural Washington State High Schools. Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Washington. 2000-2001.
Summer 1999. Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United State (IESUS). University of Washington. One-month summer salary to support book publication project.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP/ CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Guest Curator: Traveling Exhibit, American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music. Collaboration between Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and University of Washington School of Music, Department of Women Studies and American Ethnic Studies. Curated with Shannon Dudley and Marisol Berríos-Miranda.
Sponsored in part by the Seattle Partnership for the Study of American Popular Music (AMPS (formerly SPAPM)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005. (Approximately 250 pages in length.)
Awarded an Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. 2006.
Latina/o Popular Culture. Co-edited with Mary Romero. With an Introduction by Mary Romero and Michelle Habell-Pallán (20 pages) and essay by Michelle Habell-Pallán "'Don't Call US Hispanic': Popular Latino Theater in Vancouver" (16 pages). New York: New York University Press. (280 pages in length.)
In progress. Beat Migration: Chicano and Latino Roots of Contemporary American Pop Music(Single-authored mansuscript). Full length book project that examines the interventions made by Chicano and Latino communities in the sound and sonorous qualities of pop music. Field research currently being undertaken. Chapter, "Chicana Hauntings of U.S. and Canadian Popular Musics" currently being revised.
In progress. American Sabor: U.S. Latinas and Latinos in U.S. Pop Music. Edited collection of original scholarly articles. Companion to exhibit catalogue. Proposal to be submitted to NYU Press.
Exhibit Catalogue
American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Pop Music. Co-edited with Shannon Dudley and Marisol Berrios-Miranda. Seattle: Boeing Printing 2007.
Journal Articles with Peer Review
1999. "El Vez is 'Taking Care of Business': The Inter/National Appeal of Chicana/o Popular Music." Cultural Studies (vol. 13, no. 2, 1999): 195-210.
1996. "Family and Sexuality in Recent Chicano Performance: Luis Alfaro's Memory Plays." Ollantáy Theater Journal (vol. 5, no. 1, 1996): 33-42.
Book Chapters with Peer Review
2004. "'Soy Punkera, y Qué?’: Sexuality, Nation, and Punk." In Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America. Deborah Pacini Hernández and Eric Zolov, eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 160-178.
2003. "Marisela Norte, NORTE/word." In Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature. Alvina E. Quintana, ed. New York: Palgrave Mac Million Press. 163-172.
1997. "No Cultural Icon." In Women Transforming Politics. Kathy Jones, Cathy Cohen, and Joan Tronto, eds. New York: New York University Press. 256-268.
Reprinted Peer Review Article
2006. "El Vez is 'Taking Care of Business': The Inter/National Appeal of Chicana/o Popular Music." Transnational Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies. Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, ed. Routledge Press.
2005. "'Soy Punkera, y Qué?’: Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles and Beyond." Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation. Angela Y. Davis and Neferti Tadiar, editors. New York: Palgrave Mac Million Press. 219-240.
Encyclopedia Articles with Peer Review
2006. "El Vez." In Enyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Eds. Deena J. González and Suzanne Obler. Oxford University Press.
2005. "Marisela Norte." In Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Eds. Virginia Sanchez Korrol and Vicki Ruiz. Indiana University Press.
2001. "Chicano Graphic and Performing Arts." Encyclopedia of American Studies. Grolier Press. (pages 308-312).
In Press
"Review With a Machete in her Hands: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Equisbel." Women's Studies Quarterly. Spring/Summer 2007.
Forthcoming Articles
"? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians: Chicano Sensibility in the Early History of Punk or Manifesting a Chicana Pop Music Critical Theory." Preparing to submit to The Journal of Popular Music.
"Apartheid of Theoretical Domains."Preparing to submit to SIGNS: Journal of Women in Society and Culture.
"Chicana Hauntings of U.S. and Canadian Popular Music." Preparing to submit article version to Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.
Selected Invited Presentations
Invited lecturer. "Latina/o Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and Politics of Representation in the United States." Das Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung. Universität Bielefeld. Bielefeld Center for Interdisciplinary Research. Bielefeld University. Germany. January 10-12, 2008.
"The Future of Latina/o Studies : New Locations, New Rhythms." Center for American Intercultural Studies. Iowa State University. January 25, 2007.
"Beat Migration: Chicano Roots of American Pop Music." Department of English. Iowa State University. January 26, 2007.
"'An Apartheid of Theoretical Domains': Transnational Feminism and the Strange Disarticulation of Women of Color Feminist Theory." Paper Presentation. Chicano Studies and Women's Studies. April 18, 2006. UCLA.
"Alternative Narratives of Transnational Feminism." Paper presentation. Feminist Dialogues on Social Justice: Forging Articulations Across U.S.-Based Anti-Racist and Transnational Feminisms. University of Washington. Seattle. October, 29 2005.
"Globalization and Chicano and Chicana Culture." Paper presentation at “Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics" Conference. Paper presentation. University of California. Santa Barbara. May 2, 2003.
"An Analysis of Chicana Punk Formations in Los Angeles." Paper presentation.Research Residency Team Workshop. The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America. Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center. Bellagio, Italy. June 2002.
"Transnational Musical Practices: Chicano Culture in Canada." Lecture. Chicana/o Studies Department. UC Davis. February, 28, 2002.
"Transnational Musical Practices: Chicano Culture in Canada." Lecture. Chicana/o Studies Department. UC Davis. February, 28, 2002.
"Chicana/o and Latina/o Performance in the New Transnational Era." Paper presentation. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Program Fall Retreat and Conference. Educational Testing Service, Chauncey Conference Center. Princeton, New Jersey. October 4, 2001.
"The Transnational Appeal of Chicana/o Popular Music." Paper presentation. Colloquium on Popular Music. Department of Mexican American Studies. San Diego State University. May 10, 2001.
"Punk Saints/Urban Goddesses." Paper presentation. Sowing Roots/Sembrando Raíces. Chicana and Chicano Studies Symposium. Northern Arizona University. April 14, 2000.
"Transnationalism and Chicana Popular Culture." Paper presentation. Doing Memory: Performing the Legacies of Imperialism. Cornell University. March 31, 2000.
"Latina Cultural Production in Canada." Paper presentation. Nations, Pollinations, and Dislocations. International Symposium. Américas on the Verge: Society for the Advancement of Arts and Culture. Vancouver, BC. October 31, 1999.
"Transnational Identities." Lecture. University of Washington/Shoreline Community College Curriculum Transformation Institute: Exploring Difference in Multicultural Classrooms. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation. August 12, 1999.
"'Soy Punkera, ¿y Qué?': Chicana Punks and Mexicana Roqueras and the Development of Oppositional Transnational Musical Publics." Paper presentation. "Chicano Cultural Production: The Third Wave Conference." UC Irvine. April 1999.
"Gender, Nation and Chicana Feminist Images." Paper presentation. Women of Color and Visual Representation. UC Santa Cruz. March 5, 1999.
"Soy Punkera, ¿y Qué?: Paper presentation. New Representations of Chicana Cultural Identity.” Ethnic Studies Department. UC San Diego. April 28, 1998.
"'Taking Care of Business': Cultural Politics and Oppositional Transnationalism in Chicana and Chicano Spoken Word and Popular Music." Paper presentation. Departments of Comparative Literature, Theater, and Chicano Studies. University of Wisconsin at Madison. April 20, 1998.
"Soy Punkera , ¿y Qué?: Gender, Nation and Popular Music." Paper presentation. Ethnic Studies Department. Working Group on Chicana Feminist Discourse. UC Berkeley. April 3, 1998.
“Interventions in Performance Art, Sexuality, and Racialization: Luis Alfaro’s Memory Plays.” Paper presentation. Queer Studies Conference. Arizona State University. November 17, 1997.
“Elvis into El Vez.” Paper presentation. National Elvis Conference. Memphis Art College. Memphis. August 14, 1997.
"Young, Urban, and Loud: Feminist Voices in Mexico City." Paper presentation. Chicano Music Symposium-Centro Cultural de la Raza. San Diego, CA. October 1994.
"Marisela Norte's Spoken Word and Marga Gomez's Comedy: Repoliticizing Latina Ethnicity." Paper presentation. Feminist Research Colloquium. San Diego State University, CA. September 1994.
Professional Conferences
Chair, Fundraiser, and Organizer. UW Event Sub-committee: "Made it Funky: New Orleans, James Brown, and the Foundations and Futures of U.S. Pop Music." Annual Pop Music Studies Conference. Experience Music Project. Seattle. 2007. Sponsored by The Simpson Center, Women Studies, the School of Music the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and the EMP. Budget: 1400.00.
Roundtable Participant. "The Future of Thinking About Music for a Living." Experience Music Annual Pop Music Studies Conference. April 22, 2007.
Discussant. "Class, Race, and Place in the Yakima Valley." National Association of Chicana/o Studies. PNW Regional Conference. University of Washington. March, 22 2007.
Roundtable Bridging las Americas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities II. Panel Chair.American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Oakland. October 15, 2006.
"An Apartheid of Theoretical Domains: Transnational Feminism and the Peculiar Disarticulation of Women of Color Feminist Theory." Paper presentation. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Annual Summer Institute. UC Santa Cruz. August 4, 2006.
"Teaching at the Intersection of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies." Roundtable participant. National Association of Ethnic Studies Annual Meeting. San Francisco. March 31, 2006.
"Translenguas: Keywords in a Chicana/Latina (Feminist) Transnational Lexicon." Roundtable participant. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. November 5, 2005.
"Building Transnational Feminist Frameworks in Chicana/Latina Studies." Roundtable participant. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Annual Summer Institute. UC Berkeley. August 6, 2005.
"? and Mysterians: The Hidden History of Punk." Paper presentation: Experience Music Annual Pop Music Studies Conference. Seattle. April 15, 2005.
Accepted. Unable to attend due to medical problems. "Beyond and Back: Locating Chicanas and Latinas within Transnational Feminist Theories." Roundtable participant. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta. November, 2004.
Accepted. Unable to attend due to maternity leave. "Transnational Communities and the Role of the State." Panel organizer, Chair and Discussant. Latin American Studies Association Meeting. Las Vegas. October, 2004.
"Chicana Hauntings of U.S. and Canadian Popular Music." Paper presentation. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Annual Summer Institute. Seattle. August 9, 2004.
"Cultural Conquests." Panel Chair. Annual Pop Music Studies Conference. Experience Music Project. Seattle. April 17, 2004.
"Making Space: Re-Constructing latinoamericanidad in Canada." Panel organizer and chair. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Hartford. October, 2003.
"Pretty Vacant: Mainstream Narratives of Latina/o Pop Music." Paper presentation. Pop Music Studies Conference: Skipping a Beat: Rewriting the Story of Popular Music. Experience Music Project. Seattle. April 2003.
"Latino/a Popular Culture: Scholarship and Pedagogy": Roundtable organizer and participant. Latin American Studies Association Meeting. Dallas. March. 2003.
"Threatened, Stabbed, and Vandalized: Responses to the Digital Art of Alma Lopez and Other Chicana Intellectual Work." Roundtable chair and organizer. Modern Language Association. Annual Meeting. New York. December 2002.
"Critical Chicana/o Popular Culture." Panel chair and organizer. Modern Language Association. Annual Meeting. New York. December 2002.
"In the Contact Zone: U.S. Central American and Chicano Cultural Production." Panel organizer. Modern Language Association. Annual Meeting. New York. December 2002.
"Critical Chicana/o Popular Culture." Panel chair and organizer. Modern Language Association. Annual Meeting. New York. December 2002.
"Latino/a Popular Culture: Scholarship and Pedagogy": Roundtable organizer and participant. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Houston. 2002.
"Punk Muses/Punk Music": Re-shaping East L.A. Punk in the 1980s." Paper presentation. Pop Music Studies Conference: Crafting Sounds, Creating Meaning in the U.S. Experience Music Project. Seattle. April 2002.
"Transnational Musical Practices: Chicano Culture in Canada." Lecture. Chicana/o Studies Department. UC Davis. February, 28, 2002.
"Forging Public Culture, Public Voices: Latin(o) American Community Rhythms as Civic Engagement." Panel Chair. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. November 2001.
"'Don't Call Us Hispanic': Latina Performance in Canada." Paper presenter and organizer. Association for Theater in Higher Education. Chicago. August, 2001.
"'Call us Americans, cause We are all From the Americas': Latinos at Home in Canada." Reshaping the Americas: Narratives of Place. University of California Humanities Research Institute. UC Irvine. April 2001.
"The Development of Chicana Oppositional Transnational Musical Publics." Paper presentation. Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December 2000.
"Popular Culture and Urban Struggle." Roundtable participant. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Detroit. October 2000.
"Thesis/Dissertation Writing." Lecture. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, Annual Meeting. UC Davis. August 2000.
"Nikkei Visual and Literary Arts." Panel Moderator. The Nikkei Experience in the Pacific Northwest. May 4, 2000.
"Chicana Punks and Mexicana Roqueras: the Development of Oppositional Transnational Musical Publics." Paper presentation. Latin American Studies Association Meeting. Miami. March 2000.
"Latina/o Popular Culture." Organizer and chair of Workshop. Latin American Studies Association Meeting. Miami. March 2000.
"Comments on 'The Borderlands of Globality'." University of Washington. In absentia. March 30, 2000.
"Chicana Feminist Representations." Paper presentation. Feminist Research Forum. University of Washington. December 2, 1999.
"Chicana Punks and Mexicana Roqueras: the Development of Oppositional Transnational Musical Publics." Paper presentation. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. October 1999.
"Latinas in Literature." Paper presentation. Chicano/Latino and Cubano Experiences. Centro de Estudios sobre los Estados Unidos. University of Havana, Cuba. July 1999.
"Latina/o Popular Culture: Cultural Politics into the 21st Century." Organizer and chair of Roundtable. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Seattle. November 1998.
"A Critical Analysis of the Assimilation of Chicanas and Chicanos in the Southwest 150 Years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legal Perspective." Panel Chair. Conference: Making History, Constructing 'Race': Situating 'Race' in Time, Space, and Theory. University of Victoria. B.C. October 1998.
"Gender, Horizontal Affiliation, and Transnational Publics: Rock en Español." Paper presentation. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual meeting. Mexico City. June 1998.
"'Immigration Time': Chicano Performance in Transnational Contexts." Paper presentation. Shifting Boundaries: Place and Space in the Romance Cultures of North-America. Centro de Estudios Mexicanos. University of Groningen. The Netherlands. May 1998.
"Gender, Nation and Popular Music: New Representations of Chicana Cultural Identity." Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. December 1997.