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Nuestra Palabra Presents: An Interview with José F. Aranda, Jr. Tony Diaz interviews José F. Aranda, Jr. who is a Professor of Chicanx and American Literatures and will talk about his book "The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948" José F. Aranda, Jr. is Professor of Chicanx and American Literatures at Rice University. He is the author of When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America (Arizona, 2003). He has written articles on 19 th century Mexican American literature and the Recovery Project, the future of Chicano/a Studies, and most recently undertaken an investigation of the relationship between modernity and Mexican American writings, entitled The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Dr. Aranda has a dual appointment in the departments of English and Modern and Classical Literature & Culture. He is a board member of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. Co-founder with Prisc