Latine Stories

In this episode, I talk to Candy Perez who recently graduated from Texas A&M University in San Antonio with is her BA in English and has been writing poetry for a few years now.

En este episodio hablo con Octavio Quintanilla, profesor y autor de multiples poemarios, en inglés y en español, incluyendo los dos mas recientes, The Book of Wounded Sparrows, y Las Horas Imposibles. En el año 2025-2026, el ha sido nombrado poeta laureado de Texas.

In this episode, I talk to Melissa Vela-Williamson about her work in public relations and her publications on this topic. Melissa is an internationally recognized and accredited award-winning public relations strategist, author and national columnist.

In this podcast, I talk to Dr. Jennifer Najera about her co-collabative oral history and digital justice work, Mapping Chicana/Mexicana in the Borderlands. She, long with her co-collaborators, Dr. Michelle Telles and Dr. Cristina Salinas have been working on the the Chicana Borderlands Voices digital humanities archive.

In this episode, I talk to professor Jesus Montaño. Montaño is teacher-scholar of Latinx literatures and cultures, with special interest in children’s and young adult literary and cultural production in Our Americas. He is Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University.

In this episode, I talk to Erika Casasola about growing up in South Texas and accepting her calling as a curandera.

In this episode, I talk to Juan Tejeda about San Antonio and tejano conjunto music.

In this episode, I talk to Marco Cervantes, AKA Mexstep, a rapper, producer, DJ, and scholar. He performs as a solo artist and is a member of the hip hop group Third Root. Along with his artistic work, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio and researches Black and Brown cultural and political overl...

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, an award-winning researcher, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education.

In this episode, I talk to Lorena Molina, a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University. She’s also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists.

En este episodio, hablo con Ceiba Ili, una artista y educadora hondureña que vive ahora en San Antonio, Texas. Ella nos relata un poco sobre su viaje a Estados Unidos y su desarrollo en la musica y con su flauta.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Jesús Jesse Esparza about his latest co-edited collection with Natalie Garza, The Barrio and the Badge: A History of Latinos and Law Enforcement in Houston.

In this episode, I talk to Jen Yáñez-Alaniz about growing up bilingual, her poetry debut chapbook Surrogate Eater (Alabrava Press), and her forthcoming poetry collection, Pain Theory: Sweetness Ferments into a Beast.

En el episodio anterior de Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio, aprendimos sobre el papel que juegan la familia, la fe y la red comunitaria. En este episodio, escuchamos a nuestros narradores hablar sobre sus esperanzas y sueños para el futuro de las comunidades del sur de Ohio.

En el episodio pasado de Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio, aprendimos sobre las historias de migración y viajes de los cuatro narradores. En este episodio, exploramos el rol de la familia, la fe y las redes comunitarias.

En este primer episodio de Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio, les presentamos a cuatro narradores que han sido residentes del sur de Ohio por muchos años y otros que son relativamente recientes. Ellos son Hector Reffit, J.D. Emnett, Edwin Martell, y Pablo Salinas.

In this episode, I talk to Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Professor of History, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. We discuss his latest book, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship.

In this episode, I talk to Karla Tatiana Vasquez is about her cookbook, her memories of food and place, and living in the diaspora.

En este episodio, converso con el profesor Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera de la universidad de Puerto Rico Mayagüez. Herlihy-Mera es Director del instituto nuevos horizontes y autor de múltiples artículos, y el libro, Decolonizing American Spanish Descolonizando el Español Americano: Eurocentrism and Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem.

In this episode, I talk to Dorotea Reyna and her first book, Los cedros: A tejana memoir.

En este episodio converso con la profesora Claudia Holguín Mendoza, an associate professor of Hispanic Studies and specializes in Spanish linguistics, y el profesor Jorge Leal, an assistant professor of history and specializes in cultural and urban history. Holguín y Leal están en la universidad de California en Riverside.

In this episode, I talk to Professor Damian Vergara Wilson about the uniqueness of the Spanish language in New Mexico.

In this episode, I talk to Daniel A. Olivas, a fiction writer, poet, playwright, book critic, and attorney. He is the author of Chicano Frankenstein: A Novel (Forest Avenue Press, 2024), and My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (University of Nevada Press, 2024), among many other works.

In this episode, I talk to Yvette Chairez. She is a Chicana scholar and writing instructor working in the fields of visual rhetoric and performance studies. Dr. Chairez teaches in the English program at Texas A&M University – San Antonio.

In this episode, I talk to las doctoras Lizbett Tinoco and Sonya Barrera Eddy, about their journey through higher education, and how they engage Chicana Rhetorics as an extension of themselves onto their research and pedagogies.