Contact Information
Office: GH-406
Voice: 657-278-3446
Dept: 657-278-3163
Chris Ruiz-Velasco
Associate Professor
Biography
Chris Ruiz-Velasco earned his Ph.D. from UC, Riverside in 2001. He has published in College Literature, Midwest Quarterly, and The Explicator.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
M.A., University of California, Riverside
B.A., California State University, Fullerton
Research Areas
Contemporary Novels, Crime Fiction, Critical Whiteness Studies, Masculinity, & Narrative and Critical Theories.
Courses Regularly Taught
20th Century American Literature, Early American Literature, British and American Modern Novels, Postmodern Novels, & 20th-21st Century Critical Theories.
Publications
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “‘Lost in These Damn White Halls’: Power and Masculinity in Walter Mosley’s Fiction.” The Midwest Quarterly (Pittsburg), vol. 51, no. 2, 2010, pp. 135-.
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Order out of Chaos: Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Thomas Dixon, Jr.” College Literature, vol. 34, no. 4, 2007, pp. 148–65, https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2007.0049.
Ruíz-Velasco, Chris. “Space, conflict, and memory in Shaft: A complicated man.” Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative, 11 Sept. 2019, pp. 54–67, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266157-5.
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Griggs, Sutton E.” African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.34905.
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Castillo’s Burra, Me; La Burra Mistakes Friendship with a Lashing; and the Friend Comes Back to Teach the Burra.” The Explicator, vol. 65, no. 2, Heldref, 2007, pp. 121–24, https://doi.org/10.3200/EXPL.65.2.121-124.
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “AT THE BARS Where Fans Can Let Their World Cup Runneth Over: Orange County Edition.” The Los Angeles Times, 1994.
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Cellar: Stop and Smell the Noses: Orange County Edition.” The Los Angeles Times, 1993.
Ruiz-Velasco, Chris. “Where Fans Can Let Their World Cup Runneth Over.” Los Angeles Times (1923-1995), Tribune Publishing Company, LLC, 1994, pp. OC6-.
Office Hours
Fall 2025
To be announced
