Rate My Professor Magdalena Barrera

Barrera’s academic interests encompass higher education processes and navigational strategies, Chicanx history, literature, film, comparative Ethnic Studies, and public speaking. She teaches courses such as Chicana/o Literature (CCS 144), Mexican American History (CCS 10A and 10B), Chicanx Film (CCS 170), Comparative Ethnic Studies (CCS 252), Chicanx Families (CCS 115), Public Speaking (CCS 74), and Applied Chicana/o Studies Seminar (CCS 240). Key publications include the co-authored book The Latinx Guide to Graduate School (Duke University Press, 2023), providing a roadmap for marginalized students in graduate programs. Her refereed articles feature “ ‘I Love How We Developed a Community Already’: A Graduate Student Orientation Model for Minority-Serving Programs and Institutions” (Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2020), “‘Doing the Impossible’: Tracing Mexican Women’s Experiences in Americanization Curricula, 1915-1920” (California History, 2016), “Domestic Dramas: Mexican American Music as an Archive of Immigrant Women’s Experiences, 1930–1950” (Aztlán, 2012), and others. She has contributed book chapters, public scholarship in Inside Higher Ed and Ms. Magazine, conference papers, and reviews. Awards include the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (1996-97) and Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship (2011-2012). Her contributions have shaped faculty and student success initiatives at SJSU.