Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Contact:
Pigott Hall 227
650 723 4219
yyb@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
Monday 2:00 - 4:00 PM and by appointmentOVERVIEW:
Professor Yarbro-Bejarano is interested in Chicana/o cultural studies with an emphasis on gender and queer theory; race and nation; interrogating critical concepts in Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
She is the author of Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1994), The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga (2001), and co-editor of Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (1991). She has published numerous articles on Chicana/o literature and culture. She teaches Introduction to Chicana/o Studies and a variety of undergraduate courses on literature, art, film/video, theater/performance and everyday cultural practices. Her graduate seminars include topics such as race and nation; interrogating critical concepts in Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
Since 1994, Professor Yarbro-Bejarano has been developing "Chicana Art," a digital archive of images focusing on women artists. Professor Yarbro-Bejarano is chair of the Chicana/o Studies Program in Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
EDUCATION:
1976: PhD Spanish, Harvard University
1970: BA with distinction, German, University of Washington
1969: BA summa cum laude, Comparative Literature, University of Washington
Courses
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ILAC280/382Win2011-12
Texts by U.S. Latin@s of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican descent. Examines how these writers' shared history of Spanish colonization and U.S. imperialism has resulted in differing representations of home and homeland, nation, diaspora, history, and memory. Explores how racialization informs the production of gendered identities as well as sexualities. Analysis of the formal conventions of fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and film.
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ILAC287Win2011-12
Examination of cultural representations by U.S. Latin@s that explore the following questions: How is the mutual constitution of race/sex/class/gender theorized and represented? How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex acts and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How to reconcile pleasure and desire with histories of imperialism and (neo)colonialism and other structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? How do these texts produce queerness as a web of social relations?
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ILAC101NSpr2011-12
Provides critical language and tools for analyzing visual culture, specifically art by Americans of Mexican descent. Emphasis on the three central aspects of visual studies: the image, the viewer, and the social relations governing the production, distribution and consumption of images. Focus on the power of image to shape who we are and how we think, and the capacity of viewers to interpret images in ways inflected by their social positioning.
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ILAC389ESpr2011-12
Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address issues surrounding the representation of race, gender, sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color, or a transnational, transfronterizo or global network?
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ILAC380EAut2010-11
Interrogation of the critical discourses that have configured and reconfigured the canon of Chicana/o literature over the last thirty years. Close textual readings of primary texts mainly narrative within the development of Chicana/o literary and cultural criticism. Construction of narrative genealogies and foundational texts. Impact of the publication of late-nineteenth or pre-movement novels and Chicana feminist/lesbian/queer critiques. Consideration of alternative paradigms such as positioning Chicana/o literature within a U.S. Latina/o literary imaginary and the shift of critical discourse in the field of visual art from a paradigm of resistance and affirmation to one of “post” Chicano.
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ILAC280Aut2010-11
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ILAC117NSpr2010-11
Examination of films from Spain Mexico and Latina/o USA that expand trouble contest parody or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity. Filmmakers may include Lourdes Portillo Alejandro González Iñárritu John Sayles Maria Novaro Pedro Almodóvar and Gregory Nava.
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ILAC389ESpr2010-11
Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address major issues surrounding the representation of race gender sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the “ideal” bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color or a transnational transfronterizo or global network?
