Contact information
Name:
Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa / Amauri Gutiérrez-Coto
Email:
rodriguo@lafayette.edu / gutierra@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 4:10pm - 6:00pm
Where:
Gendebien Room / Skillman Library
Presenter:
Judith Rodriguez
Price:
Free
Judith Rodriguez’s talk will seek to undo the Puerto Rican narrative employment of the “docile humble peasant” and the “always sexually available femme” in literature that galvanizes historical as well as contemporary representations of Puerto Ricans.
Rodríguez is a visiting scholar in Literature at MIT for the 2018-2019 school year. As a PhD candidate in Culture and Theory at the UC Irvine, she is currently completing her dissertation, Africana Profunda: The Aesthetic Blackening of Puerto Rico and its Diaspora. Judith has published work in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies and has a forthcoming chapter in the anthology Punk: Las Américas through Duke University Press.
Sponsored by:
Foreign Languages and Literatures / Africana Studies