Mexican Mural Art

Roberto Cantú is Emeritus Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, and jointly Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the translator from English to Spanish of José Antonio Villarreal’s novel Pocho (1994), and the editor of several books, including An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism (2013); The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination (2014); The Forked Juniper: Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya (2016); and Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes (2018). In 1990, Cantú received Cal State LA’s Outstanding Professor Award. In 2010 he was recognized at his campus with the President’s Distinguished Professor Award. He is currently editing a book of essays titled Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History.