Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: [Alfred] Arteaga was a pioneer in post-colonial

and ethnic minority literature studies and an important early Chicano movement poet. He was an expert on the works of Shakespeare and the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Arteaga originally joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor of English and was tenured in the Department of Ethnic Studies in 1998.

from UC Berkeley News: Poet Alfred Arteaga, professor of Chicano and ethnic studies, dies at 58
also Lorna Dee Cervantes: Sad, Sad News--Alfred Arteaga, Poet, Professor Has Passed . . .

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