Damián Baca
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies
Modern Languages 434
Research Areas
Mexican American Studies
Digital Migrations
Mexican American Literature
Damián Baca is Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona, and faculty with the Bread Loaf Graduate School of English in Santa Fe, NM. He is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing, a retelling of the story of writing as a technology that emerges not with alphabets in the North Atlantic, but across the Valley of México, long before European territorial annexation and the advent of modernity/coloniality. His most recent publication, Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise, is Winner of the 2020 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Edited Collection).