Juan D. Mah y Busch

Professor of English Affiliate of Chicana/o Studies Loyola Marymount University

One LMU Drive, Suite 3800 Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 [email protected], (310) 338-4453

EDUCATION Ph.D., Cornell University English Language and Literature, 2003 Dissertation: Valuing Concientización: The Cultivation of a Materialist Moral Epistemology in Chicana/o Narrative. Biodun Jeyifo (Chair), Mary Pat Brady, Ben Olguín, Helena María Viramontes.

M.A., Cornell University English Language and Literature, 1998

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles English – Highest Honors, 1993 Minor, Chicana/o Studies

EMPLOYMENT Loyola Marymount University Professor, 2015-present Associate Professor, 2009-2015 Assistant Professor, 2002-2009

University of California, Santa Barbara Research Fellow, University of California Office of the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Department of Chicana/o Studies, 2002-2003

University of California, Los Angeles Visiting Professor, Academic Advancement Program, Summers 1999-2005

PUBLICATIONS PUBLISHED “The Importance of the Heart in Chicana Artistry: Aesthetic Struggle, Aisthesis, ‘Freedom’.” The Unmaking of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics. Eds., Ellie Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson. New York: Palgrave, 2014. 97-119.

PUBLICATIONS (continued) “A Pedagogical Heartbeat: The Integration of Critical and Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Education.” The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014. 121-142.

“Lovingly: Ethics in Viramontes’ Short Stories.” Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena María Viramontes Critical Reader. Eds., Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2013. 147-166.

“The Time for Integrity: On Ethics, T.S. Eliot and the Value that Drives Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Poetry.” Stunned Into Being: A Critical Anthology on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes. Ed., Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2012. 114-135.

“Beyond Anticolonial Hope and Postcolonial Despair: A Chicana-Feminist Reconfiguration.” Hope Against Hope: Philosophies, Cultures and Politics of Possibility and Doubt. Eds., Janet Horrigan and Ed Wiltse. New York: Rodopi, 2010. 163-182.

“Writing Honestly: On New Knowledge and Chicana/o Narrative Ethics.” Ethics and Ethnicity in the Literature of the United States. Eds., María Frías, José Liste and Begoña Simal. València: Universitat de València, 2006. 25-45.

“Pat Mora.” Encyclopedia of Latinas and Latinos in the United States, Volume III. Eds., Deena González and Susanne Oboler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 173-175.

“Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa.” Latino and Latina Writers. Ed., Alan West-Durán. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004. 139-60.

“Sed de honradez: Richard Rodriguez, la virtud moral y los valores literarios de las chicanas y los chicanos.” Ed., María Herrera-Sobek. Rompiendo fronteras: literature y cultura chicanas. Nerter 5-6: Primavera Verano, 2003. 24-31.

“Self-Baptizing the Wicked Esperanza: Chicana Feminism and Cultural Contact in The House on Mango Street.” Mester: Chicana/o Discourse. Special Double Issue: XXII-XXIII, Fall 1993- Spring 1994. 123-34.

ACCEPTED FOR ANTHOLOGY, ANTHOLOGY ON HOLD “Being the Boarder: A Train of Thought, Imaginative Training.” Co-authored with Helena María Viramontes. The Revising Life: The Essays of Helena María Viramontes. Moving homonymically between border and boarder, written in the first-person singular, this essay is a conversation between novelist and theorist about the role of the imagination, an imagination that is the site of struggle as well as of nourishment.

“In Sight of a Hummingbird.” The Revising Life: The Essays of Helena María Viramontes. In this “afterword” essay, through the image of a hummingbird outside my window, I weave together personal experience and insights from Helena

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PUBLICATIONS (continued) Viramontes’ essay in order to highlight the spirit that animates the essays collected in the anthology.

WORK IN PROGRESS “The Limits of ‘Outcome’ Learning and Standards for Receptive Meditational Pedagogies.” Language is a site of struggle, and the language of higher education is no different. In this essay, I describe why the vocabulary of assessment preempts foundational principles of contemplative pedagogies. For this reason, we should shift the object of assessment from student product to the professor’s training and preparation. And with the implementation of two recommendations that I describe in this essay, we can still maintain not only a sense of integrity but also one of trust.

The Reluctant Meditator Most books on meditation focus on virtues presumed to be a priori positive, such as compassion and peace or selflessness and empathy. I believe such descriptions are out of balance and can preempt a student’s meditation practice. In this collection of prose poems I describe not only the joys but also the difficulties of meditation. It is a series of observations of and lessons learned from Vipassana meditation, meditative Kabbalah, and my struggle to develop an everyday meditation practice.

PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INTERVIEWS Paper Presenter. “The Limits of ‘Outcome’ Learning and Standards for Meditational Pedagogies.” The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference, 6th Annual. Seattle, WA, October 10-12, 2014.

Interview. “Comics in the Classroom.” Deconstructing Comics. A Podcast Interview with Tim Young, May 26, 2014. http://deconstructingcomics.com.

Presentation and Interactive Session. “Intentionless Intentionality as a Foundation for Critical Pedagogy.” Contemplative Approaches in the Diverse Academic Community: Inquiry, Connection, Creativity, and Insight. Amherst, MA, September 21-23, 2012.

Paper Presenter. “Decolonial Ethics: An Implied Discourse of Latina American Survival and Life.” 2011 MELUS & USACLALS Joint Conference, Boca Raton, FL. April 7, 2011.

Paper Presenter. “Ariel’s Calibán: An Implied Chicana Ethics of Survival and Life.” National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies, XXXVII national conference, Seattle, WA. April 9, 2010.

Paper Presenter. “Ethical Value in Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Poetry.” American Literature Association’s 19th Annual Conference on American Literature, May 22-25, 2008. San Francisco, CA.

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PRESENTATIONS (continued) Paper Presenter. “A Revolutionary Chicana Character: Ethical and Epistemic Virtues in Moraga’s Hungry Woman.” The 31st Comparative Drama Conference: Text & Presentation. Loyola Marymount University, March 29-31, 2007.

Paper Presenter. “The Philosophical Traces of a Postcolonial Counter Ethics in Chicana Narrative.” The 4th International Conference of the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial Reflections on History and Literature. Santa Clara University: Santa Clara, CA, October 27-October 29, 2006.

Paper Presenter. “Caliban’s Ariel: On The Hungry Woman’s Postcolonial Hope for Latina America.” Hope: Probing the Boundaries. Mansfield College: Oxford, England, September 18, 2006 – September 20, 2006.

Paper Presenter. “Testimonio Tensions: Honest Dishonesty, Narrative Coherence, Chicana/o Concientización.” International Conference on Ethics and Ethnicity in United States Literatures. La Coruña, Spain, October 16-18, 2003.

Paper Presenter. “The Ethics of Narrative Politics: A Dishonest War and Anti-Testimonios.” The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellows’ Annual Spring Conference, March 2003.

Paper Presenter. “Understanding Love: A Chicana Moral Epistemology in Helena Viramontes’ Fiction.” Presented at the Latina Letters Conference. San Antonio, Texas, July 2001.

Paper Presenter. “The Role of Experience for Revolutionary Identity: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gloria Anzaldúa.” Presented at the National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies Conference (NACCS). Mexico City, Mexico, June 1998.

Keynote Co-Presenter. “Being the Boarder: A Train of Thought, Imaginative Training.” Presented with Helena María Viramontes, at the Chicano Cultural Critique: Trespassing Disciplinary Divides Conference. University of Colorado, Boulder, April 1997.

Paper Presenter. “U.S. Latina/o art, identity and cultural geography.” Guest Lecture for the Department of Sociology: “Introduction to Latinas/os and Geography.” University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, May 1995.

Paper Presenter. “Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger for Coherence: Experience, Knowledge and False Beliefs.” Fourth Annual Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society: Mestizo Texts in the Spanish/Mexicano/Chicano Borderlands. University of New Mexico, February 1995.

Paper Presenter. “Self-Baptizing the Wicked Esperanza: Identity and Agency in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street.” Invited Guest Lecture for the Department of English: Introduction to The Novel. University of California, Los Angeles, April 1993.

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PRESENTATIONS (continued) Paper Presenter. “A Pan-Borderlands Language: Chicanas Resisting Linguistic & Visual Oppressions.” Presented for the Minority Summer Research Exchange Program Conference. Yale University, Summer 1992.

PRESENTATIONS – LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY “A Pedagogical Heartbeat: The Integration of Critical and Contemplative Pedagogies.” Friday Faculty Colloquium Presentation, February 7, 2014.

Presentation and Panelist. “The Art of Resistance: Escaping the Prison Industrial Complex.” The Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University. February 17, 2011.

Panelist, Latino Overnight, 2007-2009.

Presentation. “Graduate Studies in Literature.” Department of English. Fall 2005-2008.

Moderator. “Real Talk: Brown & Black Teach-in/Listen-in.” November 15, 2007.

Presentation, “Multiracial Experience in the U.S.” Invited by Professor Curtiss Rooks. American Cultures Studies 100.07. November, 2007.

“Poetic Passages,” Introductions and Member of organizing sub-committee. I/M/Migration, Bellarmine Forum, October 30, 2007.

Presentation for Predoctoral and Dissertation Ford Fellows, Ford Foundation Fellow’s Conference. Panel participant, National Academies: Washington D.C., October 21, 2006.

“Reading Thoughtfully: Power and Critical Pedagogy,” The Center for Teaching Excellence, Loyola Marymount University, November 3, 2005.

“People of Color and the Academic Job Market.” Speaker for the Southern California Ford Conference, October 30, 2004.

Presentation and discussion. “Rhetorical Listening.” English 598, Professor Linda Bannister. Spring 2004.

“Saber y Conocer: Awareness in Chicana/o Poetics,” President’s Day, Loyola Marymount University, March 27, 2004.

“Writing About Wars and Violence,” Discussant. Violence: An Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Human Condition, 4th Annual Bellarmine Forum. November 11, 2004.

Lecture, “Chicana/o Word (and) Art,” Mecha Annual Conference. November 8, 2003.

“University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Workshop.” Invited Panelist for the Graduate Division. University of California, Santa Barbara, October 21, 2002.

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TEACHING AND ADVISING COURSES TAUGHT – LMU · First-Year Seminar 1000. “The Poetry of Meditation.” · First-Year Seminar 1000. “The Art of Understanding.” · English 140. “Introduction to Fiction.” Fall 2009. · English 350/Chicana/o Studies 332. “Survey in Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature.” · English 353/Chicana/o Studies 406. “Chicana/o Conciencia/Consciousness.” · English 354/Chicana/o Studies 398/American Cultures Studies 398. “Prison Literature.” · English 361. “Reading Methods.” · English 362. “Reading Cultural Studies.” · English 398. “American Autobiography.” Fall 2004. · English 598. “Power: American Literature, Theory and Society.” Summer Sessions. · English 598. “Narrative Ethics, Postcolonial Politics.” Spring 2004. · Chicana/o Studies 206. “Introduction to Chicana/o-Latina/o Literatures.” · Chicana/o Studies 500. “Chicana/o Capstone Seminar.” 2011-2013. · American Cultures Studies 100. “Introduction to American Cultures: Just Culture.” “Auto- Ethnography.” Also includes special section taught for First-Year Institute, Spring 2005 and 2006. · American Cultures Studies 115. “Race & Representations: Language, Power, and the Analysis of Culture.” Also includes special sections taught for ACCESS and First-to-Go programs, Spring 2013-present. · Honors 101. “American Persona: Politics, Persons, Prisons.” Spring 2010. · Honors 497. “Honors Thesis.” Spring 2009.

ADVISOR – M.A. CAPSTONE PROJECTS, SENIOR THESES, INDEPENDENT STUDIES · M.A. Capstone Portfolio Project, Advisor. Do, Joanne. “Do You Believe in Magic?: Examinations of Agency in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.” Spring 2014. · M.A. Capstone Portfolio Project, Second Reader. Pina, Courtney. “Socially and Spatially Marginalized: Examining Servant Characters in Woolf and Joyce.” Spring 2014. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Baden, Jessica. “Punk’s Not Dead in the Writing of Cherríe Moraga.” Spring 2013. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Marmolejo, Michael. “Take a Little Trip, Take a Little Trip With Me: A Look at the Use of Lowriders.” Spring 2013. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Mercado, Jennifer. Spring 2013. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Hidalgo, Yara C. “Immigrant Children in Elementary Education: Experiences of Alienation and Methodologies for Inclusion of Funds of Knowledge.” Spring 2012. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Rodriguez, Daisy. “La 21st –Century Malinche: A Preliminary Chicana Feminist Reconstruction of Latina Teenage Mothers.” Spring 2012. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Hansen, Amber. “Immigration in the Post-NAFTA Context.” Spring 2012. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Romo, Frank. “Synthesis of Knowledge and Agency: The New Mestiza in the Workplace.” Spring 2012.

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TEACHING AND ADVISING (continued) · Independent Study, Advisor. Villanueva, Sandie. “Introduction to Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature: The Literary Arts.” Fall 2011. · Independent Study, Advisor. Arinaga, Illeana. “The Sociology of Chicana/o Cultural Production.” Spring 2011. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Magaña, Christina Marie. “Telenovelas, Community, and Women: A Discussion of Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far From God.” Spring 2011. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Mendoza, Alexis. “Waves of Chicano/a Student Walkouts: A Comparison of Protest Methods – 1968 and 2006.” Spring 2011. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Duarte, Adan. “Beyond ‘Machismo’ Quantom: Exploring the Origins and Implications of Imposed Compulsory Hetersexuality on Queer Chicanos Negotiation.” Spring 2011. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Arinaga, Illeana. “Color, Butterflies, and History: A Marxist Look at Folklorico Dance.” Spring 2011. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Jimenez Rubalcaba, Luz Minerva. “All Freeways Cut through East L.A.: Discursive Exclusion and Chicana Resistance in Helena María Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them.” Spring 2010. · Independent Study, Advisor. Allen, Nicole. “Chicana/o Literature.” Spring 2010. · Independent Study, Advisor. Navarrete, Francisco. “Marxism and Latina/o Thought.” Fall 2008. · Independent Study, Advisor. Toledo, Stephanie. “Gender and Sexuality in Chicana/o Literature.” Spring 2008. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Hernández, Merily. “Media Representation of Chicanas and Latinas.” Spring 2007. · Honors Thesis, Advisor. Judnick, Maria Angelina Natalina. “A Night of a Nueva Luna: Isabel Allende’s Feminist Update of Arabian Nights in Eva Luna and Stories of Eva Luna.” 2007. · Honors Thesis, Advisor. Lower, Jennifer. Honor’s Thesis, “Let Difference Reign: Colonialism, Despotism, and Multiplicity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.” 2007. · Honors Thesis, Second Reader. Frey, Jenny. “Writing the Wrongs: History and Power in Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things.” 2007. · Honor’s Thesis, Advisor. Hubbell, Jennifer. “Embracing Gendered Embodiment in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” 2006. · Senior Thesis, Advisor. Navarette, Francisco. “Philosophical Developments of the Chicana/o Consciousness.” Spring 2006. · Graduate Independent Study, Advisor. Weisman, Marc. “Unwriting Discourse and Auto- Ethnography.” Spring 2006. · Honor’s Thesis, Advisor. LeSourd, Frances. “… y no se lo tragó la tierra: An Exploration of Unconventional Self-Representation in Non-Traditional Autobiography.” 2005.

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HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE), Research Fellow. Loyola Marymount University, 2009- 2010.

University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Department of Chicana/o Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002-2003.

Ford Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001.

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. Cornell University, 1999.

Graduate Fellowship. Cornell University, Fall 1996-Spring 1997 and 1998.

Mellon Fellowship. Cornell University, Fall 1994-Spring 1995.

Highest Honors. Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

Mellon, Minority Summer Research Exchange Program. Yale University, 1992.

Dean’s List. University of California, Los Angeles, 1992-1993.

SERVICE INTERIM DIRECTOR, ACTING CHAIR, COMMITTEE CHAIR Acting Associate Chair, Department of English. Spring 2014.

Interim Director. The Bioethics Institute. Summer 2011-Spring 2012.

Acting Chair. Department of Chicana/o Studies. Summer 2010-Spring 2011.

Chair. Ad Hoc Committee on American Cultures Studies. 2015.

Chair. Faculty Senate Special Committee on Four Units. October 2012-March 2013.

Chair and Co-Chair. Intercultural Faculty Committee (IFC). Chair and Co-Chair. Fall 2008- Spring 2013. Acting Co-Chair. Spring 2008.

Co-Chair, Latino Faculty Association, Loyola Marymount University. 2007-2013.

Chair and Member. Curriculum Committee, Department of English, Loyola Marymount University. 2003-present.

ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEWER FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS · Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. · Feminist Studies Journal. · Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.

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COMMITTEE, MENTORSHIP, AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION Member. Steering Committee for the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education.

Mentor. First-to-Go Program. 2011-present.

Mentor. Department of English’s Official Mentor for Assistant Professor.

Co-founder, with Pangea Farms. Opening Doors: A Writing Retreat. 2011-present.

Member. Intercultural Faculty Committee. Fall 2006-Spring 2012. Liaison to Faculty Senate. Fall 2006-Fall 2008.

Member. Core Working Group Sub-Committee. 2011.

Member. Hiring Committee for Visiting Professor of English.

Member. BCLA’s Curriculum and Assessment Committee. 2010-2013.

Interviewer. Trustee and Presidential Scholarship. 2006, 2007, .

Participant. LMU President’s Institute, “Envisioning the Sacramental in Nature and in Art.” Summer 2013.

Member. Intercultural Advisory Committee (IAC). Fall 2008-Spring 2013.

Participant. Collegium of Jesuit Universities. St. John’s University. Summer 2009.

University Writing Awards, Loyola Marymount University. Coordinator, 2004-2008, 2011, 2014.

BCLA Curriculum & Assessment Committee. Member, 2010-2013.

BCLA Grade Appeals Committee. Member, 2007-2008.

Member. Faculty Senate’s Committee on Ethnic Minority Faculty Affairs (CEMFA). 2003- 2006.

Institute for Social Change Across Borders/ Instituto para el Cambio Social Transfronterizo. Planning Committee, University of California, Los Angeles. 2003-2005.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACHME) National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies (NACCS) Modern Language Association (MLA) American Literature Association (ALA)

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