Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
William E. Orchard
Assistant Professor of English
English


Office: Miller Library 230
Fax: 859-5252
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Mailing Address:
5263 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Semester Schedule
Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2012

Areas of Expertise:
  • Latina/o literature
  • contemporary American literature
  • visual culture (especially the graphic novel)
  • theories of gender and sexuality
Current Research

Book Project:
The Pedagogy of Pictures: Latino Graphic Novels and the Politics of Representation

Edited Volume:
Forms of Engagement: Chicano Narrative Analysis in the 21st Century

Articles:
Queering Motherhood in Manuel Munoz's The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

The Making of the Mexican American Writer: Josefina Niggli's The Singing Valley

Maria Cristina Mena and the Masturbating Boy (On the Critical Limits of Mestizaje)

Publications

Co-editor. The Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. (Named one of twenty eight "Best of the Best Books Published by University Presses in 2007" by the American Library Association.)
"Lost in Adaptation: Chicana History, the Cold War, and the Case of Josefina Niggli." Women's Studies Quarterly 33 (2005): 90-113.