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Debra A. Castillo – Mexican Migrations: International Flows
October 20, 2015 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On Tuesday, October 20th, 2015, Professor Debra A. Castillo (Cornell University) will deliver a public lecture:
Mexican Migrations: International Flows
TOY LOUNGE @ 4pm
Debra Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, and former director of the Latin American Studies Program. She has served as president of the international, interdisciplinary Latin American Studies Association (2014-2015). She is the author, coauthor, translator, or editor of a dozen books and over 100 scholarly articles. She specializes in contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, and cultural theory. Her books include The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature, Talking Back: Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism, Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction, and (cowritten with María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) Border Women: Writing from La Frontera. Her latest single-authored book is Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature.
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies