Ben V. Olguín is a Professor, and the Robert ad Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has received Ford Postdoctora
...MoreBen V. Olguín is a Professor, and the Robert ad Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has received Ford Postdoctoral and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellowships. Olguín’s interdisciplinary areas of expertise include Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, American and Latin American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Human Rights Studies, Marxist Studies, Medical Humanities, and Creative Writing. Olguín has published individual and collaborative research as well as creative writing. In addition to articles published in Cultural Critique, American Literary History, Aztlán, Frontiers, Biography, MELUS, and Nepantla, he is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010), and the recently-completed manuscript Violentologies: Violence and Ontology in Latinx Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.
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