Dr. Jesse Alemán is a professor of English. He has worked at UNM since 1999. He is a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and US Latinx literary and cultural histories in the United States. He has also taught broadly in Chicano/a literatures, Southwest Cultural Studies, and nineteenth-century American literary studies. He has a long-standing commitment to graduate education, having directed 20 doctoral students to completion and advised almost as many master’s and MFA students as a committee member. He served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies from 2019-2022, and he’s on the executive board of the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS).

He is the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Award for Teaching Excellence; the American Indian Student Services’ STARS Award; the Wertheim Award for Outstanding English Faculty member; and he’s been twice named Outstanding Faculty Member by the English Graduate Student Association and UNM’s Peer Mentoring for Graduate Students of Color. He also holds the title of Presidential Teaching Fellow, the highest recognition for teaching excellence UNM bestows