Michigan State University

Faculty Member, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures

Adjunct Faculty

Arts and Letters

Thesis Title: Insurgent Aztlán: Xicano Resistance Writing in the United States

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Areas of Interest

Chicano Studies
Anti-Colonialism/4th World Liberation
Radical/Revolutionary Movements in the Americas
Insurgency

Biography

Mireles, is currently a Ph.D., candidate (ABD) in Michigan State University’s Department of American Studies. His emphasis is in Chicano Studies where he is working to develop his ideas of Xicano resistance literature, national theories around low intensity organizing models, while studying and focusing on anti colonialist theory, indigenous liberation and the methodologies and rhetoric of mobilization and organization for radical movements within the Americas; with an emphasis on the Chicano Movement from 1848 until the present.

Mireles has presented at conferences both in the United States and Mexico. He currently teaches writing to first year students. His main commitment is working with undergraduate students in the classroom to help them develop a disciplined principled approach of non-hierarchical anti-authoritarian pedagogy to achieve their desired goals both in and out of the classroom.

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