Sonia Saldivar-Hull
UTSA names executive director for Women's Studies Institute
(Jan. 27, 2003)--The University of Texas at San Antonio has named Sonia
Saldivar-Hull, associate professor of English, the new executive director
of the UTSA Women's Studies Institute.
"I am honored to be the founding director of this innovative institute,"
said Saldivar-Hull. "My goal is to help promote women's research and
develop an intellectual and cultural space that also welcomes the participation
of the greater San Antonio community."
The Women's Studies Institute will stimulate and support interdisciplinary
study and research regarding women and gender. In addition, the institute
will engage in activities such as organizing lectures and annual conferences,
and developing a research agenda that will provide an affirmative intellectual
and social climate for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and scholars.
Saldivar-Hull joined UTSA in 2001 as a part of the new doctor of philosophy
degree in English that combines traditional literary studies with Latina/Latino
studies.
Before coming to UTSA, she taught 11 years in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Saldivar-Hull holds a doctorate and master's degree in English from the University
of Texas, Austin and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of
Houston.
She authored the book "Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics
and Literature," and her research in Chicana feminist theory and literature
has been published in over a dozen books or journal articles. Since 1997,
Saldivar-Hull has served as co-editor of "Latin America Otherwise,"
a book series by Duke University Press.
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