Faculty Leaders

Paula Moya

professor of English and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Culture

Her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century and early twenty-first century literary studies, feminist theory, critical and narrative theories, American cultural studies, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, and Chicano/a and U.S. Latina/o studies. She is the author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford UP 2015) and Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (UC Press 2002) and has co-edited three collections of original essays, Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (W.W. Norton, Inc. 2010), Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave 2006) and Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (UC Press 2000).

ACCOLADES

-- Stanford Fellow, 2003-2005

-- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 2001-2002

-- Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2000-2001

-- Brown Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2000-2001

-- CCSRE Junior Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 1999-2000

-- Outstanding Chicana/o Faculty Member, Stanford University, 1997-1998