Interview With ​Christopher Carmona

Christopher Carmona is the interim director of Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an author of poetry and fiction. He is the author of the saga El Rinche: The Ghost Ranger of the Rio Grande, an acclaimed story that reimagines the Lone Ranger as a Chicano Superhero. In this interview with Héctor Rendón, Christopher Carmona talks about his work, superheroes, the bloody history of the Texas Rangers, and more.​

Interview ​by
Héctor Rendón
​6/29/2021

Héctor "Vale" Rendón (Mazatlán, México) is a publisher, writer, academic, and journalist. He has written three novels and has lived in five different countries. During his years as a journalist, he worked for more than a decade as editor, foreign correspondent, TV reporter, multimedia reporter, and editor-in-chief for several media outlets. Then he joined academia and has worked teaching and doing research at higher education institutions for eight years; his main areas of academic study are focused on media narratives about minorities in different social contexts. Throughout his life he has received several awards and grants that support both his academic and creative work.​

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