Born of a Chicana mother & Apache Mescalero father, Loretta embraces and teaches her heritage. A lifelong Californian & art enthusiast, Loretta has served at the J. Paul Getty Center & been a lifelong creative writer.
Education
• Ph.D. in English; Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies.
University of California, Irvine
Focus: Historical Cultural Rhetorics, Visual Studies, Chicana Literature, Decolonial
Theory, Critical Composition Pedagogy
Dissertation: Textual & Visual Rhetorics of the Generative Wound: A Historical
Genealogy from Medieval Iberia to Chicanx Self-Representation Strategies & Pedagogies
• M.A. in English
University of California, Irvine
Focus: Chicana Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy
Thesis: “Stitching, Not Welding: Chicana Identities & Semi-ness as Counter-Cultural Capital”
• M.A. in Art History
California State University, Long Beach
Focus: Medieval Iberia, Devotional Art
Thesis: Spain's Toledo Virgen Abridera: Revelations of Castile’s Shift in Marian Iconography
from Medieval to Isabelline
• M.A. in English
Loyola Marymount University
Focus: Creative Writing, Narrative Theories
• B.A. in Anthropology
Stanford University
Focus: Political Anthropology
• Ph.D. in English; Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies.
University of California, Irvine
Focus: Historical Cultural Rhetorics, Visual Studies, Chicana Literature, Decolonial
Theory, Critical Composition Pedagogy
Dissertation: Textual & Visual Rhetorics of the Generative Wound: A Historical
Genealogy from Medieval Iberia to Chicanx Self-Representation Strategies & Pedagogies
• M.A. in English
University of California, Irvine
Focus: Chicana Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy
Thesis: “Stitching, Not Welding: Chicana Identities & Semi-ness as Counter-Cultural Capital”
• M.A. in Art History
California State University, Long Beach
Focus: Medieval Iberia, Devotional Art
Thesis: Spain's Toledo Virgen Abridera: Revelations of Castile’s Shift in Marian Iconography
from Medieval to Isabelline
• M.A. in English
Loyola Marymount University
Focus: Creative Writing, Narrative Theories
• B.A. in Anthropology
Stanford University
Focus: Political Anthropology