Mary Pat Brady

Professor Brady is the author ofScales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx ChildandExtinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space(both from Duke University Press).Extinct Landswas awarded the Modern Language Association’s Prize for the Best Work of Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Criticism. She has also served as an associate editor of three editions of theHeath Anthology of American Literaturewhere she helped to expand the broader understanding of the contribution of Latina/o authors to US literature. Brady also edited the ten-volumeGale Researcher: 20thand 21stCentury American Literature Series(2017) and has written numerous essays on Chicana literature including, “The Contrapuntal Geographies ofWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories”(published inAmerican Literaturein 1999) which won the Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in that journal for 1999. Currently the Director of the American Studies Program, she has also served as the Associate Chair of the Department, the Director of Graduate Studies and as the Director of Cornell’s Latina/o Studies Program. A proud, queer Chicana, Brady is also parent to three wonderful people.