Robert Irwin

Mexican and Mexican American studies, migration and border studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural and media studies, digital storytelling (community based participatory audiovideo production)

CURRENT PROJECTS

Principal Investigator: Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizando el Asilo

COMMITTEES AND SERVICE

Deputy Director: Global Migration Center https://globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/

COURSES TAUGHT

SPA 172: Mexican Culture

SPA 174: Chicanx culture

SPA 177: California and Latin America

SPA 201: Cultural Theory

SPA 230: Latin American Cultural Studies

SPA 232: Latinx Studies

ADVISEES

• Brooke Kipling (SPA)
• Ross Hernández (COM)
• Elmira Louie (COM)
• Lucas Ruppel (SPA)
• Chandler Thompson (SPA)

Selected Publications

 

Books

 

• Humanizando la Deportación: narrativas digitales desde las calles de Tijuana (coed. with G. Alonso Meneses), Colegio de la Frontera Norte (2023)
• Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge: Building a Community Archive (editor), University of Texas Press (2022)
• Listening to Sicarios: Narcoviolence in Ciudad Juárez, 2008-2012 (coauthor with A. Chacón) Palgrave Macmillan (2022)
• “Complejos industriales fronterizos globales: genealogías, epistemologías, sexualidades” coed. with C. Pérez, J. Guzmán, Tabula Rasa (2020)
• Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America (coed. with H. Fernández L’Hoeste, J. Poblete), Palgrave Macmillan (2015)
• El cine mexicano “se impone”: mercados internacionales y penetración cultural en la época dorada (coauthor with M. Castro Ricalde), UNAM (2011)
• Los 41: novela crítico-social by Eduardo Castrejón (ed.), UNAM (2010)
• Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos (coed. with M. Szurmuk), SigloXXI/Instituto Mora (2009)
• Bandits, Captives, Heroines and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico’s Northwest Borderlands (author), U Minnesota Press (2007)
• The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 (coed. with E. McCaughan, M. Nasser), Palgrave Macmillan (2003)
• Mexican Masculinities (author) U Minnesota Press (2003)
• Hispanisms and Homosexualities (coed. with S. Molloy), Duke U Press (1998)

 

Journal articles and Book Chapters
 

• “Narrativas digitales con migrantes en situación de calle: reflexiones metodológicas” (with A.L. Calvillo), Errante: imaginarios migrantes en primera persona, A. Rodríguez, S. Prieto, coords., CENIT (2024)
• “Estudios culturales y proyectos colaborativos de impacto social” (with M. Szurmuk) in M. Cabrera, Marcos Monsalvo Ricci, eds. ¿Para qué sirven los estudios culturales? Cultura, política y poder en Latinoamérica, RGC Ediciones (2023)
• “The Lola Casanova That I Have Longed to Know” in Journal of the Southwest, “Dossier: How ‘Good’ Is Oral History? The Lola Casanova/Coyote Iguana Incident” (2023)
• “Saberes migrantes ante el albergue a la intemperie” (with M.J. Gutiérrez) in Revista Etcétera (U Córdova), “Dossier Intemperie: políticas de la voluntad y poéticas del cobijo” (2023)
• “Caravaneros as Citizens of the World” in S. Esch, ed. Central American Literature As World Literature, Bloomsbury (2023)
• “Community Engaged Migration Research” (with J.A. Del Monte) in D. Castillo, M. Castillo Planas, eds. Scholars in Covid Times, Cornell U Press (2023)
• “Contemporary Stories of Deportation and Migration” in D. Castillo, M. Szurmuk, eds. Latin American Literature in Transition: Vol. 5 (1980-2017), Cambridge (2022)
• “Migrantes en Tijuana frente al covid-19: impactos y consecuencias de las medidas sanitarias desde la perspectiva de los actores” (with J.A. Del Monte) in Ó. Contreras, coord. Ciencias sociales en acción: respuestas frente al COVID-19 desde el norte de México, Colegio de la Frontera Norte (2021)
• “Migrant Autonomy and Willfulness Amidst the Onslaught of the Covid-19 Pandemic at the Tijuana Border” (with J.A. Del Monte) in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (2021)
• “Introducción: La historia insólita de la caravana migrante de 2018 y del hondureño Douglas Oviedo” (with A. Silva) in D. Oviedo, Caravaneros, Festina (2020)
• “Crueles deportaciones: masculinidades, infrapolítica” in Anclajes (2020)
• “Thickening Borders Across Mexico: Follow-up Stories from the Caravan” in Latinx Talk (2020)
• “Oscar Wilde in Mexico: Keeping the Scandal Alive” in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (2020)
• “The Humanizing Deportation Archive” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, W. Beezely, ed. (2020)
• “Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018” Partes I/II in Latinx Talk (2019)
• “Trayectorias fronterizas más allá del boom” in Revista Iberoamericana (2018)
• “Ethics, Collaboration and Knowledge Production: Digital Storytelling with Sexually Diverse Farmworkers in California” (with T. Lizarazo, D. Tenorio, D. Pardo, E. Oceguera) in Lateral (2017)
• “¡Ay, mi soledad! Mexican Solitude Beyond the Labyrinth” in Modern Mexican Culture: Critical Foundations , S. Day, ed., U Arizona Press (2017)
• “The Gender and Sexuality Turn” (with M. Szurmuk) in New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power, J. Poblete, ed., Routledge (2017)
• “Almost-Latino Literature: Approaching Truncated Latinidades” in The Latino Nineteenth Century, R. Lazo,  J. Alemán, eds., NYU Press (2016)
• “Popular Narratives: Telenovelas, Corridos, Historietas and Other Literary Pursuits” (with M. Castro Ricalde) in A History of Mexican Literature, I. Sánchez Prado, A. Nogar, J.R. Ruisánchez, eds., Cambridge (2016)
• “La condición postmexicana ante la ‘restauración’” in Roger Bartra ante la crítica, M. Moraña, I. Sánchez Prado, eds., Fondo de Cultura Económica (2015)
• “John Rechy’s (Los) Ángeles: Some Queer Mexican Intertextualities” in The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century, M. Martín Rodríguez, B.
• Hernández Jason, eds., Bibl. Benjamín Franklin (2015)
• “Mariano Azuela and the ‘Brown Scare’” in Literal Magazine (2015)
• “Migración, comodificación, memoria: el caso insólito de Martín Ramírez” in A Contracorriente (2014)