Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script. Cristina has also coedited multiple anthologies, including Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature (with Trevor Boffone and Voices of Resistance: Essays on Chican@ Children’s Literature (coeditor with Laura Alamillo and Larissa M. Mercado-López). Journal publications include "Seeking Refuge Under the Mesquite: Nature Imagery in Guadalupe García McCall’s Verse Novel" (Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2019), "Soy Brown y Nerdy: The ChicaNerd in Chicana Young Adult (YA) Literature" (The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature, Fall 2017), and "Cinco Hermanitas: Myth and Sisterhood in Guadalupe García McCall’s Summer of the Mariposas" (Children’s Literature, 2016), among others.

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• Introduction: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and NerdyChapter One: Not Your Nerd or "At-Risk" Chicana Student: On ChicaNerds and StereotypesChapter Two: "Those White Girls Don’t Like It": Community and ChicaNerd Feminist Resistance in Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández’s White Bread CompetitionChapter Three: "The College Girl from the Barrio": Calculus and ChicaNerdiness in What Can(t) WaitChapter Four: Theater and Chicana Poetic Development in Guadalupe García McCall’s Under the MesquiteChapter Five: Band Shirts and Rebellion: Resisting the "Buena Hija" Trope through Nerdiness in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican DaughterChapter Six: "Tis the Life of a Misunderstood Teenage Poet": ChicaNerd Poetics in Gabi, A Girl in PiecesChapter Seven: To Be or Not to Be: Shakespeare, College, and Chicana Feminist Consciousness in Ghosts of El GrulloConclusion: Reflections from a (grownup) ChicaNerd: Or, Why I Wrote This Book

Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script. Cristina has also coedited multiple anthologies, including Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature (with Trevor Boffone and Voices of Resistance: Essays on Chican@ Children’s Literature (coeditor with Laura Alamillo and Larissa M. Mercado-López). Journal publications include "Seeking Refuge Under the Mesquite: Nature Imagery in Guadalupe García McCall’s Verse Novel" (Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2019), "Soy Brown y Nerdy: The ChicaNerd in Chicana Young Adult (YA) Literature" (The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature, Fall 2017), and "Cinco Hermanitas: Myth and Sisterhood in Guadalupe García McCall’s Summer of the Mariposas" (Children’s Literature, 2016), among others.

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• Introduction: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and NerdyChapter One: Not Your Nerd or "At-Risk" Chicana Student: On ChicaNerds and StereotypesChapter Two: "Those White Girls Don’t Like It": Community and ChicaNerd Feminist Resistance in Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández’s White Bread CompetitionChapter Three: "The College Girl from the Barrio": Calculus and ChicaNerdiness in What Can(t) WaitChapter Four: Theater and Chicana Poetic Development in Guadalupe García McCall’s Under the MesquiteChapter Five: Band Shirts and Rebellion: Resisting the "Buena Hija" Trope through Nerdiness in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican DaughterChapter Six: "Tis the Life of a Misunderstood Teenage Poet": ChicaNerd Poetics in Gabi, A Girl in PiecesChapter Seven: To Be or Not to Be: Shakespeare, College, and Chicana Feminist Consciousness in Ghosts of El GrulloConclusion: Reflections from a (grownup) ChicaNerd: Or, Why I Wrote This Book

Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script. Cristina has also coedited multiple anthologies, including Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature (with Trevor Boffone and Voices of Resistance: Essays on Chican@ Children’s Literature (coeditor with Laura Alamillo and Larissa M. Mercado-López). Journal publications include "Seeking Refuge Under the Mesquite: Nature Imagery in Guadalupe García McCall’s Verse Novel" (Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2019), "Soy Brown y Nerdy: The ChicaNerd in Chicana Young Adult (YA) Literature" (The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature, Fall 2017), and "Cinco Hermanitas: Myth and Sisterhood in Guadalupe García McCall’s Summer of the Mariposas" (Children’s Literature, 2016), among others.

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• Introduction: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and NerdyChapter One: Not Your Nerd or "At-Risk" Chicana Student: On ChicaNerds and StereotypesChapter Two: "Those White Girls Don’t Like It": Community and ChicaNerd Feminist Resistance in Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández’s White Bread CompetitionChapter Three: "The College Girl from the Barrio": Calculus and ChicaNerdiness in What Can(t) WaitChapter Four: Theater and Chicana Poetic Development in Guadalupe García McCall’s Under the MesquiteChapter Five: Band Shirts and Rebellion: Resisting the "Buena Hija" Trope through Nerdiness in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican DaughterChapter Six: "Tis the Life of a Misunderstood Teenage Poet": ChicaNerd Poetics in Gabi, A Girl in PiecesChapter Seven: To Be or Not to Be: Shakespeare, College, and Chicana Feminist Consciousness in Ghosts of El GrulloConclusion: Reflections from a (grownup) ChicaNerd: Or, Why I Wrote This Book