Bio 

Ellen Riojas Clark, Ph. D., Professor Emerita in Bicultural Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received a BA from Trinity University, an MA in Bicultural Bilingual Studies from UTSA, and a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
She served as Co-PI for the Rockefeller Foundation Project: Knowledge, Culture, and Construction of Identity in a Transnational Community: San Antonio, TX and as Content Director for the Scholastic PBS program Maya & Miguel, a bicultural bilingual animated series. She received three National Endowment for the Humanities grants on Mexican American and Latino literature and culture, and developed a AT&T film project Developing Multicultural Understanding through Education.
Dr. Clark's publications include textbooks, cultural studies books, and over 200 journal publications. Popular publications include: Tamales, Comadres and the Meaning of Civilization (2010, 2015), Don Moisés Espino Castillo y sus Calaveras (2016); Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives (2020), and Our Daily Pan Dulce – The Cultural Poetics of Mexican Pastries (2022) both by Trinity University Press. In addition, Dr. Clark is the executive producer for the Latino Artist Speaks: Exploring Who I am series, as well as other cultural studies documentaries.

Biografía

Ellen Riojas Clark, Ph.D., es Profesora Emérita en Estudios Biculturales Bilingües en la University of Texas en San Antonio. Recibió una Licenciatura en Artes de la Trinity University, una Maestría en Estudios Biculturales Bilingües de la UTSA y un Doctorado de la University of Texas en Austin.

Se desempeñó como Co-Investigadora Principal para el Rockefeller Foundation Project: Knowledge, Culture, and Construction of Identity in a Transnational Community: San Antonio, TX y como Directora de Contenido para el programa Scholastic PBS Maya & Miguel, una serie animada bicultural bilingüe. Recibió tres becas del National Endowment for the Humanities sobre literatura y cultura mexicoamericana y latina y desarrolló un proyecto cinematográfico de AT&T llamado Developing Multicultural Understanding through Education. 

Las publicaciones de la Dra. Clark incluyen libros de texto, libros de estudios culturales y más de 200 publicaciones en revistas. Sus publicaciones más conocidas incluyen: Tamales, Comadres and the Meaning of Civilization (2010, 2015), Don Moisés Espino Castillo y sus Calaveras (2016); Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives (2020) y Our Daily Pan Dulce – The Cultural Poetics of Mexican Pastries (2022), ambos de la Trinity University Press. Además, la Dra. Clark es productora ejecutiva de la serie Latino Artist Speaks: Exploring Who I am, así como de otros documentales de estudios culturales.