Hector Valle Calderon

Background

Hector Valle Calderon was born on October 10, 1945, in Calexico, California, to Bernabé M. and Luz Valle Calderon.

Education

Calderon attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he got B.S., in 1968. Then, at the California State University, he got B.A., in 1972. Hector studied at the University of California in Irvine, where he got his M.A., in 1975, and his further graduate study, in 1978. Then, in 1981, he got Ph.D., at Yale University.

Career

Hector Calderon worked at Stanford University, in Stanford, California, as a lecturer, from 1980 to 1981. From 1981 to 1983, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, in Los Angeles. In 1983, Hector was an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. Hector also was a fellow at Stanford Humanities Center, from 1986 to 1987.

He was a visiting associate professor of Spanish and chairperson of Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies, from 1997 to 1998, at the University of California, in Los Angeles and visiting associate professor, at Harvard University, from 1997 to 1998.

Achievements

• Calderon is known mostly for editing Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, in collaboration with Jose David Saldivar.

Works

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  • Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology

    (This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism...)

  • Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders
  • The Aztlan Mexican Studies Reader 2016

Membership

• Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

• Modem Language Association of America

• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

• Latin American Studies Association

• National Association for Chicano Studies

• Phi Kappa Phi

Connections

Calderon married Victoria Viles, on August 28, 1974. They have two children: Catherine Victoria and Christine Elizabeth.

Father:

Bernabé M. Calderon

Mother:

Luz Valle Calderon

Wife:

Victoria Viles

Daughter:

Catherine Victoria Calderon

Daughter:

Christine Elizabeth Calderon