Louis Mendoza

Dr. Mendoza is Vice Dean in New College.  In this role, he oversees the management and coordination of the New College's Academic Enterprise (including both degree programs and academic personnel).  He has an extensive history as an administrative leader at four different universities and has served as the director of a research center,  associate dean, department chair, vice provost for equity and diversity, and school director.

Louis is professor of Latina/o literary and cultural studies in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. He received his PhD in English with a concentration in ethnic and Third World literatures from the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book was published by Lived Places Publishing and is entitled, (Re)Constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in 20th Century Houston: A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American in Space City U.S.A. He is the author of "A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.," "Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the U.S.," and "Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History," as well as the editor of "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature," raúlrsalinas and the "Jail Machine: My Weapon is My Pen," and the co-editor of "Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration" and "Telling Tongues: A Latino Anthology on Language Experience." He is a editorial collective member of Essays in the Critical Humanities, a co-editor of the Carceral Collection by Lived Places Publishing, and an advisory board member of Latinx Talk, an online, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and moderated site for the circulation and discussion of original research, commentary, and creative work.