Limón, José
Professor

Education: Ph.D. UT Austin 1978
Office Location: PAR 224
Office Hours: Contact Center for Mexican American Studies: (512) 471-4557
Phone: (512) 471-8116
limonada@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Academic interests are varied and include cultural studies, Chicano literature, anthropology and literature, Mexicans in the United States, U.S. - Mexico cultural relations, critical theory, and folklore and popular culture. In 1987-88 he was a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Research Center. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a research fellowship in 1994, and he received another research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 1997-98.

Recent Publications:

Journals

He has published in a wide range of scholarly journals such as his ''Western Marxism and Folklore: A Critical Introduction'' in The Journal of American Folklore.

Books

Mexican Ballads and Chicano Poems : History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry (University of California Press, 1992) received an ''Honorable Mention'' award for the University of Chicago Folklore Prize for ''distinguished contribution to folklore scholarship.''

Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994) was named as the winner of the 1996 American Ethnological Society Senior Scholar Prize for ''a vital and contentious contribution to ethnology.''




A new book, American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture will appear in December, 1998 with Beacon Press.

He has also edited the writings of Jovita Gonzalez, Texas historian and folklorist, in two volumes, Caballero: A Historical Novel(Texas A and M University Press, 1995) and Dew on the Thorn (Arte Publico Press, 1997).