Chicanas: Literature, Theory, and Film

Date
Mon October 10th 2016, 4:30 - 6:00pm
Event Sponsor
Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, El Centro Chicano y Latino, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Women's Community Center, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Department of Art & Art History, Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), Department of English, Creative Writing Program
Location
Women's Community Center
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Professor Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, in her last quarter teaching at Stanford, will host three prominent Chicanas to discuss Literature, Theory, and Film.

Her first guest is Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them (2007), focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes was born and raised. A teacher and mentor to countless young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University.

Next lectures in the series:

Emma Pérez

October 11, 2016

1:30-4:20pm

Encina Hall 464

Aurora Guerrero

October 13, 2016

Building 160, Room 325

Co-sponsored by Chicana/o/Latina/o Studies.

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