Erin Hurt

 Erin Hurt is completing her Ph.D. in English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin, with research interests in 20th century American multi-ethnic literatures, popular culture, public sphere and reader response theories, feminist pedagogy and theory, and new media. Her recent work examines the relationships between contemporary feminist writers, popular culture, and the marketplace as found in the work of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Eve Ensler, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and the spoken word group Sister Spit. Her article on the phenomenon of the chica lit genre and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's The Dirty Girls Social Club recently appeared in MELUS 34.3 (Fall 2009). Her work on the concept of feminist solidarity appears in the online journal Thirdspace 8.1 (Summer 2008), and she has written reviews for Studies in the Humanities 33.2 (December 2006), Feminist Teacher (forthcoming), and The Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, volumes 6 (Spring 2006), 7 (Spring 2007), 8 (Spring 2008), and 9 (Spring 2009).

She also enjoys hanging out with her cats, Angus and Bean.