PhD, Duke University, 2004
Graduate Certificate in Latin American Cultural Studies, 2001
BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1994

Desirée A. Martín joined the UC Davis faculty in 2004. Her interests include U.S-Mexico border studies and theory, Chicana/o and Latina/o literature and cultural production, Inter-American Studies, 19th and 20th century Mexican literature and cultural production, performance art and theatre, and subaltern studies.

Currently, she is working on a book titled Bordered Saints which examines the construction of border and nation in the United States and Mexico through representations of popular, unorthodox saints in Chicana/o and Mexican culture.

Publications

• Martín, Desirée.  “'Multilingual Aesthetics and the Limits of Chicano/a Identity in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas’ Puppet,” MELUS, 33, Issue 3 (Fall 2008).
• "Possessing La Santa de Cabora: The Union of Sacred, Human and Transnational Identities" in Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West. (R. Dyck & C. Reutter, Eds.). Palgrave MacMillan. (Forthcoming)
  
• "Multiculturalismo," in Diccionario de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos,  (Robert McKee Irwin & Mónica Szurmuk, Eds.). México, DF: Siglo XXI/Editorial Instituto Mora. (Forthcoming)
• "'Excuse the inconvenience, but this is a revolution': Zapatista Paradox and the Rhetoric of Tourism," South Central Review 21:3 (Fall 2004) Special Issue: Memory and Nation in Contemporary Mexico, 107-128.

Awards and Honors:

• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2001-2002)
• Duke University Graduate School Travel Grant, Mexico DF, Mexico (2000)
• Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Travel Grant, Tijuana, Mexico (2000)
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (1997)
• Duke Endowment Graduate Fellowship (1995)

Email:  dmartín@ucdavis.edu