Professor

American Literary Studies

Presidential Teaching Fellow

Research Area/s

Nineteenth-Century American and US Latinx Literary and Cultural Histories; Chicano/a and Southwestern Literatures and Film; Race, US Print Cultures, and the C19 American Gothic

Contact Information

Email: jman@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 351

Biography

Dr. Jesse Alemán is a Professor of English and a Presidential Teaching Fellow at the University of New Mexico. His work covers nineteenth-century American and US Latinx literary and cultural histories. He has published over two dozen articles and essays, including recent pieces in The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature, Latino/a Literature in the Classroom, and PMLA. He is the author of Latinx Civil Wars (forthcoming from NYU Press), which recovers and analyzes the US Latinx lives and writings that emerged out of the concurrent nineteenth-century civil wars in the US, Mexico, and Cuba. He also republished The Woman in Battle, which recounts the life and adventures of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who participated in the US Civil War as Lt. Harry T. Buford, and he co-edited two volumes: Empire and the Literature of Sensation (with Shelly Streeby) and The Latino Nineteenth Century (with Rodrigo Lazo). He has directed nearly 20 dissertations and is the recipient of the University of New Mexico's College of Arts and Sciences' Award for Teaching Excellence; the American Indian Student Services' STARS Award; the Wertheim Award for Outstanding English Faculty member; and he's been named Outstanding Faculty Member by the English Graduate Student Association and UNM's Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color. In 2016, UNM designated him a Presidential Teaching Fellow, the highest teaching recognition the university bestows to its faculty, and he was named the 2023-2024 Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society.