Professor of Chicanx Literatures, Rice University

José F. Aranda, Jr. is Professor of Chicanx Literatures at Rice University. He holds the Terrance Doody Chair in English and has a dual appointment in the Department of English and the Department of Modern and Classical Literature & Culture. Aranda is the author of When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America, as well as The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948. Aranda is a board member of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and co-founder with Priscilla Ybarra of Avanzamos: El Taller Chicana/o, an annual workshop focused on advanced scholarship in Chicanx Studies, sponsored by Rice University and the University of North Texas. At Rice, he won the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching three times as well as the Presidential Mentoring Award. Aranda is a Founding Executive Committee Member and Board Member of the Tapia Center.