Rubén Martínez

Rubén Martínez, a native of Los Angeles and the son and grandson of immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador, is a writer, teacher and performer. He holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University and is the author of several books, including Desert America: A Journey Across Our Most Divided Landscape and Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. He is the host of the VARIEDADES performance series. His most recent production, "Little Central America, 1984" received a New England Foundation for the Arts national touring grant and will be staged in Washington, D.C., Houston, Tx and Berkeley, Ca.

• Literary studies
• Chicanx Latinx studies
• Central American studies

• Immigration
• Latinx and Latin American literatures 
• Borderlands studies
• Theology

• Current Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature and Writing, Loyola Marymount University.

• New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Creation & Touring Grant
• Lannan Fellowship in Literature for Non-Fiction
• Loeb Fellowship, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
• Freedom of Information Award, American Civil Liberties Union
• Emmy Award, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

• Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
• Desert America: A Journey Across our Most Divided Landscape
• The New Americans: Seven Families
• The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City & Beyond