
Paula M. L. Moya
Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
English
Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/pmoya
Bio
Moya is the author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford UP 2016) and Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (UC Press 2002). She has co-edited three collections of original essays including Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (W.W. Norton, Inc. 2010), Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave 2006) and Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (UC Press 2000).
Her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century and early twenty-first century literary studies, feminist theory, critical theory, narrative theory, American cultural studies, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, and Chicano/a and U.S. Latina/o studies.
At Stanford, Moya has served as the Director of the Program of Modern Thought and Literature, Vice Chair of the Department of English, and the Director of the Undergraduate Program of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. She has also been the faculty coordinator of several faculty-graduate student research networks sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, the Research Institute for the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and Modern Thought and Literature. They include The Interdisciplinary Working Group in Critical Theory (2015-2016, 2012-2014), Feminist Theory (2007-08, 2002-03), Americanity / Coloniality / Modernity (2006-07), and How Do Identities Matter? (2003-06).
She was also a founding organizer and coordinating team member of The Future of Minority Studies research project (FMS), an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary, and multigenerational research project facilitating focused and productive discussions about the democratizing role of minority identity and participation in a multicultural society.
Moya is a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, the Outstanding Chicana/o Faculty Member award. She has been a Brown Faculty Fellow, a Clayman Institute Fellow, and is currently a CCSRE Faculty Research Fellow.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, English
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Professor (By courtesy), Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Administrative Appointments
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Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (2021 - Present)
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Director, Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (2016 - 2019)
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Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University (2011 - 2015)
Honors & Awards
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Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) (2019-2020)
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Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University
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Outstanding Chicana/o Faculty Member Award, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation
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Brown Faculty Fellowship, The Brown Institute
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Fellowship, Clayman Institute
Program Affiliations
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American Studies
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Center for Latin American Studies
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Cornell University (1998)
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M.A., Cornell University (1995)
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B.A., University of Houston (1991)
2021-22 Courses
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Independent Studies (9)
- Directed Reading
CSRE 200W (Aut, Win) - Graduate Independent Study
MTL 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study
ENGLISH 394 (Sum) - Individual Work
ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Master's Thesis
LATINAM 398 (Spr) - Qualifying Paper
MTL 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research Course
ENGLISH 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Revision and Development of a Paper
ENGLISH 398R (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2020-21 Courses
- Decolonial Feminist Fiction
ENGLISH 285 (Win) - Introduction to Graduate Study for Ph.D. Students
ENGLISH 396 (Aut) - Latinx Literature
ENGLISH 124A (Spr)
2018-19 Courses
- Orals, Publication and Dissertation Workshop
ENGLISH 398W (Aut, Win, Spr) - Pedagogy Seminar I
ENGLISH 396L (Aut) - Qualifying Exam Workshop
ENGLISH 398Q (Sum) - Theories of Race and Ethnicity
ENGLISH 381B (Aut)
- Decolonial Feminist Fiction
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Alberto Quintero, Kathryn Winner -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Casey Patterson -
Doctoral (Program)
Alan Burnett Valverde, Annika Butler-Wall
All Publications
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The Border and the Way We Live Now
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
2021; 33 (4): 843-853
View details for DOI 10.1093/alh/ajab069
View details for Web of Science ID 000743297600009
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Ask a Feminist: Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters
SIGNS
2021; 47 (1): 235-245
View details for DOI 10.1086/715648
View details for Web of Science ID 000696913000017
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Designing Ambient Narrative-Based Interfaces to Reflect and Motivate Physical Activity.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference
2020; 2020
Abstract
Numerous technologies now exist for promoting more active lifestyles. However, while quantitative data representations (e.g., charts, graphs, and statistical reports) typify most health tools, growing evidence suggests such feedback can not only fail to motivate behavior but may also harm self-integrity and fuel negative mindsets about exercise. Our research seeks to devise alternative, more qualitative schemes for encoding personal information. In particular, this paper explores the design of data-driven narratives, given the intuitive and persuasive power of stories. We present WhoIsZuki, a smartphone application that visualizes physical activities and goals as components of a multi-chapter quest, where the main character's progress is tied to the user's. We report on our design process involving online surveys, in-lab studies, and in-the-wild deployments, aimed at refining the interface and the narrative and gaining a deep understanding of people's experiences with this type of feedback. From these insights, we contribute recommendations to guide future development of narrative-based applications for motivating healthy behavior.
View details for DOI 10.1145/3313831.3376478
View details for PubMedID 33880463
View details for PubMedCentralID PMC8055101
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"Against the Sorrowful and Infinite Solitude" Environmental Consciousness and Streetwalker Theorizing in Helena Maria Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them
LATINX ENVIRONMENTALISMS: PLACE, JUSTICE, AND THE DECOLONIAL
2019: 250–66
View details for Web of Science ID 000521354700015
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"We Carry Our Environments within Ourselves" An Interview with Helena Maria Viramontes
LATINX ENVIRONMENTALISMS: PLACE, JUSTICE, AND THE DECOLONIAL
2019: 164–76
View details for Web of Science ID 000521354700010
- The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Stanford University Press. 2016
- Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century edited by Markus, H. R., Moya, P. M. W.W. Norton, Inc.. 2010
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POSTETHNIC AMERICA? A MULTICULTURAL TRAINING CAMP FOR AMERICANISTS AND FUTURE EFL TEACHERS
IDENTITY IN EDUCATION
2009: 225–50
View details for Web of Science ID 000283741100011
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WHAT'S IDENTITY GOT TO DO WITH IT? MOBILIZING IDENTITIES IN THE MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM
IDENTITY IN EDUCATION
2009: 45–64
View details for Web of Science ID 000283741100003
- Identity Politics Reconsidered edited by Mohanty, S. P., Alcoff, L. M., Hames-García, M., Moya, P. M. Palgrave. 2006
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WHAT'S IDENTITY GOT TO DO WITH IT? MOBILIZING IDENTITIES IN THE MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM
IDENTITY POLITICS RECONSIDERED
2006: 96–117
View details for Web of Science ID 000284041800007
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"This is not your country!": Nation and belonging in Latina/o literature
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
2005; 17 (1): 183-195
View details for DOI 10.1093/alh/aji011
View details for Web of Science ID 000226290700011
- Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles University of California Press. 2002
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Chicana feminism and postmodernist theory
SIGNS
2001; 26 (2): 441-483
View details for Web of Science ID 000166908800004
- Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism edited by Moya, P. M., Hames-García, M. R. University of California Press. 2000