Podcasts

Hudson, Chris. Lincoln in the Bardo. Lead Reader Recording #1. Audio blog post. Radio Readers Fall Read. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Hudson, Chris. Lincoln in the Bardo. Lead Reader Recording #2. Audio blog post. Radio Readers Fall Read. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Hudson, Chris. Lincoln in the Bardo. Lead Reader Recording #3. Audio blog post. Radio Readers Fall Read. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Hudson, Chris. Lincoln in the Bardo. Lead Reader Recording #4. Audio blog post. Radio Readers Fall Read. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Hudson, Chris. American Mother. Audio blog post. Radio Readers Fall Read. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Hudson, Chris. Late Migrations. Audio blog post. Radio Readers Fall Read. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Hudson, Chris. Senate Bill 37. Audio blog post. Lone Star Deep Dive: League of Women Voters. High Plains Public Radio. August 2025.

Brooks, Ryan. Interview with George Saunders. Audio blog post. Humanities on the High Plains. High Plains Public Radio. February 2024.

Hudson, Chris. Interview with George Saunders. FM90. February 2024.

Hudson, Chris. Latin American Literature. Audio blog post. Check Me Out: A Podcast for Booklovers. Panhandle PBS. January 2020.

Baker, Jonathan A. and Chris Hudson. The Town and the City. Audio blog post. Check Me Out: A Podcast for Booklovers. Panhandle PBS. August 2019.

Baker, Jonathan A. and Chris Hudson. Drink the Kool-Aid: Cult Fiction. Audio blog post. Check Me Out: A Podcast for Booklovers. Panhandle PBS. August 2018.

Presentations

Public Lecture. Speaker, “Lincoln in the Bardo: The Omitted Chapter.” WTAMU Great Book Series. July 2025.

ACES presenter. Amarillo College. January 2025.

Panel Moderator: The Two Cultures: Physics and Metaphysics.  Amarillo College, November 2024.

“Some Aspects of the Grotesque in George Saunders.” South Central Modern Language Conference. October, 2024. New Orleans, LA.

Moderator: Student Q&A with George Saunders. Amarillo College. April 2024.

Public Lecture. Speaker, “George Saunders’ “Victory Lap” WTAMU Great Book Series. March 2024.

ACES presenter. Amarillo College. January 2024.

ACES presenter. Amarillo College. January 2023.

Public Lecture. Speaker, Flannery O‘Connor’s “Revelation.” WTAMU Great Book Series. February 2022.

ACES presenter. Amarillo College. January 2022.

Panelist. Hemingway Documentary. Panhandle PBS. March 2021.

Public Lecture. Speaker, “Shirley Jackson: Mid-Century Gothic.” Amarillo Public Library. Annual Public Lecture. March 2021.

Public Lecture. Speaker, Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols.” WTAMU Great Book Series. November 2020.

Panel Moderator:  Poetry with Wes Reeves, Seth Wieck, and Chera Hammons.  Amarillo Arts Fest. May 11, 2019.

Public Lecture. “Flesh and Memory: Danticat’s The Farming of Bones.” West Texas A&M University Great Book Series. February 14, 2017.

Presenter/Reader.  Max Ehrmann Poetry Context.  Swope Art Museum. April 3, 2011.

Discussion:  Virtual Scholar.  Saint Mary of the Woods College, 2011.

Panel Moderator:  Focus the Nation.  Saint Mary of the Woods College, 2008.

Panel Moderator: “Detecting Fiction:  Bolano, Pynchon, and Chabon.”  ISU International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference.  October, 2009.  Terre Haute, IN.

“Detecting Fiction:  Roberto Bolano’s 2666.  ISU International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference.  October, 2009.  Terre Haute, IN.

“Oh What a Paradise It Seems.”  Focus the Nation.  Saint Mary of the Woods College, Jan. 31, 2008.

“Robert Fishman’s Bourgeois Utopias.”  Literary London Conference.  Roundtable Discussion.  King’s College, Jan. 2004, London, England.

“Suburban Evangels,” Midwest Modern Language Association annual convention, Nov. 3-6, 2004, St. Louis, Mo.   

“Gloria Naylor and the Suburban Novel,” Gloria Naylor Symposium, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1998.

"The Authoritarian Carnivalesque: García Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch," International Bakhtin Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1997.

    “The Global Suburb,” Cultural Cartographies: Mapping the Postcolonial Moment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 1995.

    “Monologic Discourse vs. Multivoiced Polyvalency in Latin American Novels,” Sixth International Mikhail Bakhtin Conference, Cocyoc, Mexico, 1993.

    “Jose Donoso’s El obsceno pajaro de la noche:  Poststructuralist Approaches,” Latin American Studies Conference, Austin, TX, 1987.

Publications

“Introduction to Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place.”  In Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature.  Jennifer McClinton-Temple, ed.  (New York:  Facts on File).  2010.

“Community in The Women of Brewster Place.”  In Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature.  Jennifer McClinton-Temple, ed.  (New York:  Facts on File).  2010.

“The Dream Deferred.”  In Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature.  Jennifer McClinton-Temple, ed.  (New York:  Facts on File).  2010.

“Gender and Class in The Women of Brewster Place.”  In Encyclopedia of General Themes in Literature.  Jennifer McClinton-Temple, ed.  (New York:  Facts on File). 2010.

"Naylor's Linden Hills and the Suburban Novel," in BMa:  The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review. 4.2, Spring 1999.

    “Monologic Discourse vs. Multivoiced Polyvalency in Latin American Novels,” in Roman Alvarado   and Lauro Zavala (eds.), Mijal Bajtin:  Sexto Encuentro Internacional Mijal Bajtin.  Mexico City:  Universidad Autonoma Unidad Xochilico, 1993.

Books  Edited:  University of Texas Press

Camnitzer, Luis.  New Art of Cuba.

Colburn, Forrest.  My Car in Managua.

Cook, Scott and Leigh Binford.  Obliging Need:  Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism.

Gonzalez -Echevarria, Roberto.  Alejo Carpentier:  The Pilgrim at Home.

Himmerich y Valencia, Robert.  The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555.

Holquist, Michael and Vadim Liapunov (eds.).  Art and Answerability:  Early Philosophical Essays by M.M Bakhtin.

Medina, Pablo.  Exiled Memories.

Olivera, Zapata.  A Saint is Born in Chima.

Stanish, Charles.  Ancient Andean Political Economy.

Teitelboim, Volodia.  Neruda.