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John-Michael Rivera is a professor of English and Humanities and the former director for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. His first book, The Emergence of Mexican America, won the Thomas J. Lyon Best Book Award. His second book, UNDOCUMENTS, recently won the Kayden Award and Pope Award.

He has edited, introduced and translated two books for the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and has published widely in scholarship, essays, memoir, creative nonfiction and poetry. He was the curator of El Laboratorio, a literary space for Latinx writers, and co-creator of CrossBorders, an international collective of writers and artists engaging borders. He teaches creative nonfiction, writing studies, Latinx studies, 19th century American literature and culture and documentary studies.

Areas of Specialty

• Latinx Literature and Culture
• Cultural Studies
• Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
• American Literature
• Creative Nonfiction