Marci McMahon, Assistant Professor of Multiethnic Literature, teaches Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, theater, and performance in the Department of English.  She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California and is the recipient of fellowships from the Irvine Foundation and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Institute at the University of New Mexico.  Her recent essay on Chicano/a movement artist Patssi Valdez is forthcoming in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.  She's on the editorial board for Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS.