Crystal R. Perez Faculty Profile
Crystal R. Perez
Associate Professor
Department of English
- E-mail: crystal.perez@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-3151
- Office: Music Building, room 2601
- Office Hours: on sabbatical
Courses taught:
ENGL 109: College Writing Lab
ENGL 200: College Writing II
ENGL 204: Writing About Literature
ENGL 220: Immigration and Migration in American Literature
ENGL 303: Advanced Expository Writing
ENGL 320: Major Works of American Literature
ENGL 324: Women’s Literature and Feminist Theory
ENGL 328: Latinx Literature
ENGL 423: Ethnic American Women’s Literature After 1900
ENGL 499: Senior Seminar
Research interests:
Latinx coming-of-age novels; ethnic detective fiction; Latina/Chicana feminisms; Latinx visual art; social justice and education; women of color narratives; immigration and labor in literature
- Ph.D. Literature and Cultural Studies - University of California, San Diego
Not teaching this semester.
Forthcoming. González Reyes, Christian and Crystal R. Pérez. “Agribusiness Chronotopes: Farmworker Experiences of Exploitative Time and Space in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines.” Studies in American Fiction.
“Locating Chicanx Futurity and Afuturity in Erika Sanchez’s I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, vol 9, no, 1, 2024.
"Detecting the Present in the Historical Novel: Building Consciousness through a Pedagogy of Conscious Anachronism.” Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom, edited by Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten. University of Illinois Press, 2024, pp. 91-110.
“The Chicana Detective: Reimagining Archetypes and Chicana Histories in the Historical Mystery.” Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, vol. 24, iss. 1, 2022.
“Lienzo urbano: hitos del arte público chicano de Los Ángeles, 1968-2014.” Porciúncula: geografías culturales del pueblo de nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, edited by Salvador Fernandez and Juan Carlos Ramirez-Pimienta. Mexico City: Two Shores Publishing, 2019, pp. 303-321.
Book Reviews
Review of Chola Salvation by Estella Gonzalez. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2021. Camino Real: Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas, no.18, 2023, pp. 387-389.
Review of Autobiography in Black & Brown: Ethnic Identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez by Michael Nieto Garcia. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 31, iss. 2, 2016.Curricular Lead, GANAS (Gaining Access 'N Academic Success)
2024 ELEVATE Fellowship, Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Rutgers New Brunswick
2023-24 Outstanding Scholar on Issues of Diversity, Social Justice & Multiculturalism, CSUEB