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Fall 2009 Speakers and Events
Aurea María Sotomayor
Department of Spanish
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Lugares y recorridos en 'Plasma'
de Guadalupe Santa Cruz
Monday, November 30, 2009
11:00 AM
113 Cathedral of Learning
Prof. Sotomayor earner her PhD at Stanford University. She is the author of Hilo de Aracne: Literatura puertorriqueña hoy (1995) and Feminina faber: Letras, música, ley (2004) and the editor of De lengua, razón y cuerpo (Antología y ensayo crítico sobre nueve poetas puertorriqueños) (1987). The most recent of her many books of poetry is Diseño de ala (2005).
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Bernardita Llanos
Professor and Chair,
Department of Modern Languages,
Denison University
Sujetos apasionados/sujetos escindidos:
Género y contracanon
en la monernidad literaria en Chile
(Brunet, Bombal y Eltit)
Professor Llanos earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Her book Passionate Subjects/Split Subjects in Twentieth-Century Literature in Chile was published by Bucknell University Press (2009). She is also the author of a volume on Eltit (Letras y proclama: la estética literaria de Diamela Eltit, 2006). Her earlier book is on representations of the conquest of the New World in writings of the Spanish enlightenment: (Re)descubrimiento y (re)conquista en la Ilustración española (1994).
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Juan Duchesne-Winter
Narraciones de la militancia guerrillera en Argentina:
Giro de sujeto
[Guerrilla Narratives in Argentina: The Turn of the Subject]
Friday, October 2, 2009
1:00 PM
142 Cathedral of Learning
The conference will dwell on some historical, theoretical and methodological issues raised by the study of guerrilla narratives related to the revolutionary uprising that spanned the sixties and the seventies in Argentina. It will be delivered in Spanish.
Juan Duchesne Winter, professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, is author of Narraciones de testimonio en América Latina (1991), Política de la caricia (1996), Ciudadano insano (2001), Fugas incomunistas (2005), ‘Equilibrio encimita del infierno’: Andrés Caicedo y las utopías del trance (2007), Del príncipe moderno al señor barroco: república de la amistad en Paradiso, de José Lezama Lima (2008), and Comunismo literario y teorías deseantes: inscripciones latinoamericanas (forthcoming). He has also published fiction: Gotcha (2008).
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2nd BIENNIAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
(des)articulaciones
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Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Processes:
Memory and Transgression
October 9-10, 2009
(des)articulaciones is a biennial conference organized by the Graduate Students of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh that invites students and professors across disciplines to reflect on Latin American and Caribbean aesthetic production from alternate points of enunciation. This event provides graduate students with a forum in which they can gain valuable experience sharing their work, receiving feedback from colleagues, and expanding their research.
During the 2009 conference, focusing on Memory and Transgression, students from universities across the nation will share their research about the function of memory and history in acts, people, narratives, and theories that violate or exceed norms within an Iberoamerican context. Topics of student panels include Southern cone dictatorships, urbanization and migration, orientalism, U.S. Latino identities, the African diaspora, gender and indigenous studies, and the rewriting of history. Student papers will be presented on October 9 in the Lower Lounge of the William Pitt Union (9:30 am to 6:30 pm) and on October 10 in 4127 Sennott Square (9:30 am to 4 pm).
We are pleased that Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres will join the 2009 conference, holding a bilingual performative reading on Friday October 9 (7 pm, Lower Lounge WPU) from her books Our Lady of the Night (2006) and Fe en Disfraz (November 2010). In addition, she will give the keynote speech on Saturday October 10 (4:30 pm, 324 CL), entitled “Forgetting ‘Race’: Race in Puerto Rican Culture.” Santos-Febres is a professor of literature, poet, novelist, and critic who has garnered fame at home and abroad. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. (1991) from Cornell University, where she has since taught as a visiting professor. Santos-Febres has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, as well as at numerous other American and European universities, and is currently Associate Professor of Literature at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She has published two books of poetry to wide acclaim, and her short stories have won many prizes, including the 1994 Letras de Oro Prize from the University of Miami and the 1997 Juan Rulfo Prize, awarded by Radio Sarandi in Paris. In 1997 her two collections of short fiction were translated into English under the title Urban Oracles. Other titles include Pez de vidrio, El cuerpo correcto, and Sirena Selena vestida de pena.
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Alan Pauls
La herencia Borges
Friday, October 16, 2009
3:00 PM
142 Cathedral of Learning
Alan Pauls is one of Argentina's most important contemporary writers and critics. He is the author of books on Manuel Puig (Sobre La traición de Rita Hayworth, 1986) and Borges (El factor Borges, 2000, revised edition, 2004) and of the novels El pudor del pornógrafo (1984), El coloquio (1990), Wasabi (1994), El pasado (2003, Premio Herralde de Novela) and Historia de llanto: Un testimonio (2007). He is a visiting professor at Princeton University this semester.
His talk is sponsored by The Borges Center.
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Fernando Degiovanni
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Wesleyan University
The Rise of Latin Americanism:
Colonialism, Managerial Discourses,
and the Uses of Literature
Fernando Degiovanni is the author of Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, políticas culturales y canon en Argentina (Beatriz Viterbo, 2007) and of numerous essays, including "Shifting Hegemonies: The Cultural Politics of Empire " (in Sara Castro-Klarén's Companion to Latin American Literature). He earned his PhD at the University of Maryland.
Friday, November 6, 2009
4:00 PM
142 Cathedral of Learning
His talk is sponsored by The Borges Center and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Spring 2009 Speakers and Events
Un Paseo
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