Mary Pat Brady

Mary Pat Brady is Associate Professor of English and Latino/a Studies at Cornell University where she teaches courses on Latina literature, art, and culture, Twentieth Century U.S. fiction, as well as courses on gender, immigration, and the war on drugs. Her first book, Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Duke UP, 2002), won the Modern Language Association Prize for the Best work of Chicana and Latino Literary and Cultural Criticism. She has also published numerous articles including “‘Full of Empty’: Creating the Southwest as Terra Incognita,” in Nineteenth-Century Geographies, edited by Helena Michie and Ronald Thomas (Rutgers University Press, 2002); “The Fungibility of Borders,” in Nepantla: Views from South 1 (2000); “The Contrapuntal Geographies of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories,” in American Literature 71.1 (1999); “Specular Morality, Drugs, and the Anxiety of the Visible,” in Making Worlds: Metaphor and Materiality in Feminist Thought, edited by Susan Aiken and Sallie Marston (University of Arizona Press, 1997). Her essay on Sandra Cisneros won the prestigious Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature in 1999. She is also an Associate Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature (5th Edition). Brady is also the past recipient of numerous fellowships including the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the University of California, Santa Barbara Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship, as well as two Project 88 fellowships from the University of California, Los Angeles.