Curriculum Vitae
Richard A. Grijalva
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0783-0459
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Education
Ph.D., Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, December 2020
Dissertation: Political Spirituality and the Idea of México: From the Bourbon Reforms in New Spain to Mexican Independence (1740-1821)
M.A., Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, May 2012
M.A., Department of Philosophy, Boston College, May 2003
B.A., Loyola Marymount University, Philosophy major, minor in Political Science, magna cum laude, May 1998
A.A., Liberal Arts, Los Angeles Pierce College, January 1996
Professional Appointments
Provost’s Early Career Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2023 – present
ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, August 2022 – present
Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, January 2021 – July 2022
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, August 2012 – December 2020
Grants, Awards, and Honors
Emerging Voices Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2022 – 2024
Finalist, American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship, 2021
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley Graduate Student Instructor Resource Center, 2019
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley, 2016 – 2017
UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, 2016 – 2017
Mentored Research Award, UC Berkeley Graduate Division, 2015 – 2016
Chancellor’s Opportunity Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2010 – 2014
Bernard Lonergan, SJ Master’s Degree Scholarship Recipient, Boston College, 1998 – 2000
Books and Monographs
The Stray Codex: Subjects of the Mexican Nation in Fray Servando Teresa de Mier’s “Carta de despedida a los mexicanos” (in progress)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Historical Poetics and Messianic Discourse in José Servando Teresa de Mier’s “Carta de despedida a los mexicanos” (1821), Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 40, no. 1, Winter 2024, https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2024.40.1.6 (in press)
“The Archive as Model of Subjectivity in Servando Teresa de Mier’s Discourse on the Mexican Nation”, for submission to Hispanic Studies Review, Winter 2024 (in progress)
Book Reviews
A Kiss Across the Ocean, by Richard T. Rodríguez, Aztlán: Journal for Chicano Studies. (forthcoming, Fall 2024)
Book Podcast Episodes
Interview with Eric Van Young, Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850, New Books Network Mexican Studies Channel, July 27, 2023, https://newbooksnetwork.com/stormy-passage.
Interview with Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Foucault, New Books Network, November 1, 2023, https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-force-of-truth.
Interview with Ignacio Sánchez Pardo, Vanderbilt University Press Critical Mexican Studies Series, New Books Network Mexican Studies Channel (forthcoming)
Conference Papers
“Methodological Issues in the Genealogical Study of Political Spirituality and the Novohispanic Insurgency of 1810-1821”, Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), San Antonio, TX, November 2023.
“Framing the Politics of Names: México in Bourbon New Spain”, XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York, NY, May 28, 2016.
“Abstraction, History, and Nominalism”, UC Irvine Comparative Literature Graduate Conference on Abstraction, March 11-12, 2016.
"Framing the Micropolitics of Names in Bourbon New Spain", 2015 Creating Connections Consortium Summit, Bates College, November 14, 2015.
“Problematics of History and Culture in Post-Conquest Mexican Discourses”, XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, May 30, 2013.
“Negotiating Identity, Culture, and History in the Body of the Pachuco”, “American Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modes of Power,” John F. Kennedy Institute, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, May 27, 2011.
“‘Quite an Original’: The Confidence-Man as a Figure of the Coming Community”, 2010 ACLA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 1, 2010.
Invited Papers and Panels
“Insurgent Spirituality: Disrupting Political Theology in the Transformation of ‘New Spain’ to ‘México’”, Institute for Historical Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, April 10, 2023.
“Political Spirituality and the Idea of Mexico”, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies Colloquium, The University of Texas at Austin, October 21, 2022.
Moderator, The Impact of Education and Identity” panel, Student Undergraduate Research Fellows Conference, UC Berkeley, August 17, 2017.
“Entre Tradiciones Discursivas y Campo Intelectual: ‘México’ en el Sistema de pensamiento borbónico en la Nueva España”, Seminario Permanente de Cambio Lingüístico y Variación Lingüística, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, March 28, 2017.
Panelist and Moderator, “U.S. Media Coverage of Ayotzinapa”, “Phone Interview with Daniel Hernandez, Vice News Mexico City Bureau Chief”, Ayotzinapa Teach-in, UC Berkeley, November 19, 2014.
Moderator for “Political Economy, Eurocentrism, and Colonialism”, Theory/Post-Theory Conference: An Interdisciplinary Conference, hosted by the Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, April 18, 2014.
Respondent to Prof. John Riofrio (College of William and Mary), “Latinos in a Permanent Post-9/11 Moment: The Public Latino Body in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and Americanos,” Transnational American Studies Working Group, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, January 26, 2012.
Panelist for “Cosmopolis” and “Hacia Una Ciencia Humana Crítica” [“Toward a Critical Human Science”], “Educar Para Cosmopolis: Primer Taller Latinoamericano de reflexión desde la invitación de Bernard Lonergan, SJ,” Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, México, June 16-17, 2011.
Teaching Experience
As Instructor
MALS 374: “Special Topics: Spirituality and Latinx History”, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2023)
Rhetoric R1A: The Craft of Writing, UC Berkeley
“The Language of Influence” (Summer 2022, Summer 2021), “Writing Under the Shadows of Democracy and Rhetoric” (Spring 2022); “Spirituality, Politics, and the Care of the Self” (Fall 2021); “Thinking Through Paperwork” (Spring 2021); “Discourses of Religion and the Secular” (Fall 2020), “Sound Arrangements: Race Space and Music in the United States (Spring 2020); “Demanding Reason” (Spring 2018); “The Idea of Study” (Spring 2015)
Rhetoric R1B: The Craft of Writing
“Care and the Careless Contemporary” (Spring 2022); “The Lives and Afterlives of Paperwork” (Spring 2021); “Specimens Hoarders, and Archivists (Fall 2019); “Is Design Evil?” (Summer 2016)
Chicano Studies R1AN: Introduction to Chicanx Literature (Summer 2018, Summer 2019)
Rhetoric 20: Rhetorical Interpretation (Summer 2015)
As Graduate Teaching Assistant
Rhetoric 10: Argumentation and Practical Reasoning (Fall 2012)
Rhetoric 20: Rhetorical Interpretation (Spring 2014, Spring 2013)
Rhetoric 103A: Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory, Classical Rhetoric (Fall 2018, Fall 2014, Fall 2013)
Rhetoric 103B: Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory, Modern Rhetoric (Spring 2019)
Classics R44: Roots of Western Civilization (Fall 2017)
Letters and Sciences 1: Introduction to the Liberal Arts (Summer 2017)
Journalism, International Reporting, (Summer 2017)
Research Experience
Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Lingüística Hispánica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México; Research Sponsor: Prof. Concepción María del Pilar Company Company. 2016-2017.
Professional Service
Organizer and moderator, “Music’s Transporting Touch: A Conversation with Richard T. Rodríguez on British Post-Punk and U.S. Latinidad”, October 12, 2023, The University of Texas at Austin.
Graduate Student Mentor/Statement of Purpose Drafting Workshop Facilitator, Mellon Mays Gap Year Graduate School Boot Camp, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, UC Berkeley, September 20-21, 2019.
Graduate Student Panelist and Mentor, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) “Pathways to the Professoriate Program”, November 2017 and 2018.
Graduate Student Intern, Chicano-Latino Student Development, UC Berkeley, Fall 2010 – Spring 2015.
Editorial Board Member, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011 - 2014.
CalDream Graduate Fellow, UC Berkeley Chicano-Latino Student Development and Liberty Hill Foundation Joint Project, Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Graduate Diversity Day Panelist, UC Berkeley, 2011, 2014.
Professional Affiliations
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Languages
Spanish (Near-Native/Heritage Fluency)
German (Reading Knowledge)
French (Intermediate Reading Knowledge)