Ethan Trejo
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English
Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
August 2022-Present
University of Southern California
M.A. in English
May 2021
Chapman University
M.A. Thesis: "Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities"
B.A. in English & Political Science
Minor in History
May 2019
Whittier College
Ph.D. in English
Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
August 2022-Present
University of Southern California
M.A. in English
May 2021
Chapman University
M.A. Thesis: "Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities"
B.A. in English & Political Science
Minor in History
May 2019
Whittier College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer
Department of English,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
August 2021-July 2022
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of English,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
August 2020-May 2021
Teacher
C2 Education, Anaheim, CA
January 2020-September 2020
Political Science Tutor
Center for Advising & Academic Success,
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
September 2018-December 2018
Lecturer
Department of English,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
August 2021-July 2022
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of English,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
August 2020-May 2021
Teacher
C2 Education, Anaheim, CA
January 2020-September 2020
Political Science Tutor
Center for Advising & Academic Success,
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
September 2018-December 2018
COURSES TAUGHT
Lecturer, Chapman University
Summer 2022
Spring 2021
STUDENT AFFAIRS EXPERIENCE
Graduate Assistant for
Social Identity Development
Cross-Cultural Center,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
July 2019-May 2020
Lecturer, Chapman University
Summer 2022
- ENG 103: Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: Rhetorics of Gender
- ENG 103: Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: Queer Rhetorics
- ENG 103: Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: Latinx Rhetorics
- ENG 103: Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: Queer Rhetorics
Spring 2021
- ENG 103: Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: Queer Rhetorics
- ENG 103: Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: Writing About Identity
STUDENT AFFAIRS EXPERIENCE
Graduate Assistant for
Social Identity Development
Cross-Cultural Center,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
July 2019-May 2020
GRADUATE STUDENT COURSEWORK
Ph.D. in English, Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California
ENGL 660-Studies in Genre: Race and the Novel
ENGL 650-Multicultural Literary Studies: Interracial Intimacies
ENGL 650-Multicultural Literary Studies: Latinx Literature and Cultural Production
ENGL 630/SWMS 630-Studies in Gender: Queer and Feminist Theory through Hitchcock
ENGL 599-Special Topics: Autotheory: Writing and Theorizing from Lived Experience
ENGL 590-Directed Research: HIV/AIDS: Activism, Literature, Aesthetics
ENGL 508-Histories, Theories, and Practice of Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies in Television
ENGL 501-History of Literary and Cultural Theory
AMST 610-Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in Chicano/Latino Studies
AMST 567/SWMS 567-Body, Power, and Politics
CRIT 500-Theory and History of Performance Studies
SWMS 560: Feminist Theory
GENDER 205-Subfields in Gender Studies: Colonial Order of Things: Race and Sexuality in the Work of Michel Foucault (Graduate Course taken at UCLA through USC-UCLA Cross Enrollment)
M.A. in English, Chapman University
ENG 597B-MA Thesis
ENG 582-Composition Pedagogy and Research Practicum
ENG 581-Theory and Practice of Writing Tutoring and Conferencing
ENG 580-Teaching Composition
ENG 556-Literary Theory and Critical Practice: 1920-Present
ENG 546-Special Studies in Literature: Fairy Tales & Cultural Theory
ENG 546-Special Studies in Literature: Irish Literature
ENG 546-Special Studies in Literature: Postcolonial Literature/Theory
ENG 545-Major Authors: Oscar Wilde
ENG 522-Topics in American Literature After 1870: American Fiction: The 1920's
ENG 516-Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies: Latinx Literature Now
ENG 500-Advanced Topics in Rhetoric and Composition: Freire: Dialogue, Praxis, Education
Ph.D. in English, Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California
ENGL 660-Studies in Genre: Race and the Novel
ENGL 650-Multicultural Literary Studies: Interracial Intimacies
ENGL 650-Multicultural Literary Studies: Latinx Literature and Cultural Production
ENGL 630/SWMS 630-Studies in Gender: Queer and Feminist Theory through Hitchcock
ENGL 599-Special Topics: Autotheory: Writing and Theorizing from Lived Experience
ENGL 590-Directed Research: HIV/AIDS: Activism, Literature, Aesthetics
ENGL 508-Histories, Theories, and Practice of Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies in Television
ENGL 501-History of Literary and Cultural Theory
AMST 610-Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in Chicano/Latino Studies
AMST 567/SWMS 567-Body, Power, and Politics
CRIT 500-Theory and History of Performance Studies
SWMS 560: Feminist Theory
GENDER 205-Subfields in Gender Studies: Colonial Order of Things: Race and Sexuality in the Work of Michel Foucault (Graduate Course taken at UCLA through USC-UCLA Cross Enrollment)
M.A. in English, Chapman University
ENG 597B-MA Thesis
ENG 582-Composition Pedagogy and Research Practicum
ENG 581-Theory and Practice of Writing Tutoring and Conferencing
ENG 580-Teaching Composition
ENG 556-Literary Theory and Critical Practice: 1920-Present
ENG 546-Special Studies in Literature: Fairy Tales & Cultural Theory
ENG 546-Special Studies in Literature: Irish Literature
ENG 546-Special Studies in Literature: Postcolonial Literature/Theory
ENG 545-Major Authors: Oscar Wilde
ENG 522-Topics in American Literature After 1870: American Fiction: The 1920's
ENG 516-Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies: Latinx Literature Now
ENG 500-Advanced Topics in Rhetoric and Composition: Freire: Dialogue, Praxis, Education
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- "The Runways of Salina EsTitties: Disidentificatory Performance on Drag Race." Architects of Culture: Formations of (Un)Nationalistic Latinidad. Presenter. Placing Justice and Joy in Latinx Studies, 2024 Biannual Conference, Latina/o Studies Association, April 2024.
- "Trigger Warnings: Lighting the Way Forward and/or Fracturing Classroom Communities," Roundtable Participant. ¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light!, 2022 Annual Conference, National Council of Teachers of English, November 2022.
- "On Liking White Boys: Reading Affect in the MLM Relationships of Latinx YA Media." Narrating and Visualizing Youth, 2022 Annual Conference, American Comparative Literature Association, June 2022.
- "On Liking White Boys: Reading Affect in the MLM Relationships of Latinx YA Media." 2022 Annual Conference, Popular Culture Association, April 2022.
- "My Time Among the Whites: White Latinxs in a Post-Trump World." Latinx Life Writing: Past, Present, and Future, 2021 Annual Conference, American Comparative Literature Association, April 2021.
- “The Magical Potentiality of Queer Ecology in When the Moon Was Ours.” Ecocritical Potentialities: Human-Nature Relationships in Literature, Composition, and Mythology. Presenter & Panel Organizer. How to Do Things with Worlds, 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Department of English, Indiana University, April 2021.
- "The Gothic Day: Queering Time in Patrick Ness' Release." Southwest Humanities Symposium 2021: Normalcy and un/dis/nonabnormalcy, Graduate Scholars of English Association, Arizona State University, February 2021.
- "The Liminality of the Closet in The Straight Road to Kylie." 42nd Annual Conference, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, February 2021.
- "Aztlán as a Queer Futurity and Unifying Affect." Uncertain Futures, 31st Annual Mardi Gras Conference, English Graduate Student Association, Louisiana State University, February 2021.
- "Compulsory Homosexuality: Harry Styles and Queerbaiting." What, Like It's Hard? (academic podcast), Recorded December 2020.
- "Fun Home: The (Re)Construction of Queer Identities Through Traumatic Memory." Designing the Self, Humanities Graduate Student Association, York University, July 2020.
- "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Uncanny Permeation of Domestic Normalcy." Graduate Student Research Showcase, Chapman University, May 2020.
- "Dubliners: An Observed Portrait of Stagnation." Movement, Department of Literature, University of California San Diego, April 2020. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
- "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Uncanny Permeation of Domestic Normalcy." Thresholds, Borders, and Boundaries, Acacia Group, California State University Fullerton, March 2020. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Comparative Literature Association
American Studies Association
Latina/o Studies Association
American Comparative Literature Association
American Studies Association
Latina/o Studies Association
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Board Member, Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS). University of Southern California. Aug. 2023-Present
Board Member, Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS). University of Southern California. Aug. 2023-Present
AWARDS
Paul Frizler Award for Outstanding MA Student, April 2021
Paul Frizler Award for Outstanding MA Student, April 2021