Selfa Chew
Selfa Chew joins the Global Studies Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2008-2009 academic year. During the fall semester, she taught two sections of GS102 “Introduction to Global Studies II: Race, Culture and Identity” as well as a special topics course (GS247D) titled “Warriors of the West: Buffalo Soldiers, Native Americans, and the Impact of Colonization.” In Spring 2009 she will teach two sections of GS102 as well as one section of “La Frontera: Cultural Identities on the Mexican-U.S. Borderland” (GS250).
Chew holds a MFA in Creative Writing and a MA in Borderlands History from the University of Texas at El Paso. She is an editor of Border Senses and coordinates the Mexican Contemporary Literature Conference. Her work (poetic, graphic, narrative and editorial) has been published in Peru, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Holland, and the United States. Her latest book is Mudas las Garzas (Ediciones Eon, 2007). She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of History at UTEP. Her research is focused on the Mexican Japanese relocation program during WWII.