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Hispanism, Transnational Identities, and US Academia

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Panel Discussion

The Caribbean, Latin American, and Latino Studies at St. Lawrence University is pleased to invite you to Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Hispanism, Transnational Identities, and US Academia

A roundtable discussion with experts from around the country about "Hispanism" in the US higher-education system.

Friday, April 28 · 2 - 3pm EDT

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This roundtable will discuss how to challenge epistemologies and practices of "Hispanism" in the US higher-education system, particularly in the fields of Spanish, Latin American, and Latinx studies. Even with the current promotion of interdisciplinarity and inclusivity, these three research areas are still isolated due to nation-state frameworks and imperialist perspectives that privilege the knowledge produced and disseminated from Europe. We are interested in placing transnational identities at the center of the discussion and highlighting the hemispheric intersections of Latinx, Indigeneity, and the African diaspora.

Speakers:

-Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is Catedrático at the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He has served as Senator of the University, the Director of the Humanities Department, and the Institutional Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Events. Herlihy-Mera has been a faculty member at universities in the US, the Caribbean, South America and Europe, and in 2022, he was Obama Fellow at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies. In 2019 Herlihy-Mera was Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies in Budapest, and he has given lectures recently at Oxford University, the Obama Institute and the Sorbonne, and his books include, Decolonizing American Spanish (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism (Routledge, 2018), Paris in American Literatures (Rowman 2015) and In Paris or Paname (Rodopi, 2011). He has a PhD from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

-Tracy Quan is an Assistant Professor of Spanish linguistics at University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include critical pedagogical approaches to Spanish as an additional and heritage language in classroom and study abroad contexts, as well as the role of raciolinguistic and language ideologies on multifaceted populations, like Latin Asians. She has published in journals such as Hispania and Modern Language Journal, in various edited volumes, and is the co-editor of the book, Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad (2021, Routledge).

-Dr. Leila Gómez in Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at CU Boulder. Her research interests include Latin American and Indigenous literature, film and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis in the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay and Argentina. Her most recent book is Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). She is the Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Center at CU Boulder and PI of a federal grant that funds the Quechua Program at the center.

-Dr. Poblete is professor of Literature, Spanish Studies, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studies the discursive role of literature in national and transnational contexts, particularly nineteenth-century Latin American and contemporary Latino American culture. His most recent publications are Nuevos acercamientos a los estudios latinoamericanos: Cultura y poder (editor). Translation of New Approaches Latin American Studies: Culture and Power (2018) into Spanish by CLACSO (free download) /UNAM; Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Non-citizenship (co-editor), Rutgers University Press, 2021 and La Escritura de Pedro Lemebel como proyecto cultural y político, Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2019.

Moderator:

-Dr. Javier Muñoz-Díaz is Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University. His research focuses on the cultural history of the Andean and Amazon regions, Indigenismo, Indigeneity, LGBTQ+ Studies, and Environmental Humanities. He has published in peer-review journals such as English Languages Notes, Anthropologica, and College and Research Libraries.