{"id":3096,"date":"2022-11-16T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:29:28","slug":"als-associate-professor-awarded-and-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2022\/11\/16\/als-associate-professor-awarded-and-published\/","title":{"rendered":"ALS Associate Professor Awarded and Published"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associate Professor of American Literary Studies, Bernadine Marie Hern\u00e1ndez has published her first book monograph titled, <em>Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands<\/em> with the University of North Carolina Press.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Border Bodies <\/em>is the study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border. Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women\u2019s bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest. Hern\u00e1ndez focuses on a time when the borderlands saw a rapid influx of white settlers who encountered elite landholding Californios, Hispanos, and Tejanos. Sex was inseparable from power in the borderlands, and women were integral to the stabilization of that power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In drawing these stories from the archive, Hern\u00e1ndez illuminates contemporary ideas of sexuality through the lens of the borderland\u2019s history of expansionist, violent, and gendered conquest. By extension, Hern\u00e1ndez argues that Mexicana, Nuevomexicana, Californiana, and Tejana women were key factors in the formation of the western United States, even as they are too often erased from the region\u2019s story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hernandez has furthermore received three grants for her second book project titled, <em>Chicana Marxism<\/em>. She has received the 2022 Latin American Studies Library Access Grant, was a recipient of the WeR1 SuRF 2022 Program, and received a UNM Center for Regional Studies Faculty Development Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Hernandez received the 2021 \u2013 2022 Adobe Digital Literacy Innovation Award for her multimodal class assignments in her class English 363: Inter-American Literature. The class examines Walt Whitman\u2019s influence on Latin American revolutionary poetics to the influence and affinities between Edgar Allan Poe and several writers of the R\u00edo de la Plata region\u2014Argentina and Uruguay\u2014of South America. The online archive dive that won that award asks students to find online, digitized archives and analyze a folder of primary sources, and craft an original historical argument based on the interpretation of those sources through Adobe Spark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of American Literary Studies, Bernadine Marie Hern\u00e1ndez has published her first book monograph titled, Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands with the University of North Carolina Press.&nbsp; Border Bodies is the study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border. 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