C8: Comparative Americas

Seminar Leader: To Be Announced

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Westminster 3

Ulli K. Ryder, University of South California: “Crossing Borders: Citizenship, Identity and Genre in African American and Chicano Literatures”

Mark K. Burns, Brigham Young University: “The Space of a Lost Frontier: Imagining, Mapping, and Mourning the Borderlands of Northern Mexico”

Monique Rodrigues-Balbuena, University of California – Berkeley: “The Strange Fascination of Sepharad—Moacyr Scliar’s Rewriting of Brazilian and Jewish Histories”