I Call it New Orleans: The Transnational Writer – A New Comparative Literary Practice
Thursday, March 27, 2008
7 p.m., Elaine Langone Center Forum Debra A. Castillo
Cornell UniversityDebra Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.
She specializes in contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, and cultural theory. She is the author of several books including: The Translated World: A Postmodern tour of Libraries in Literature (1984), Talking Back: Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (1992), Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction (1998), and Border Women: Writing from La Frontera (2002). She is also the translator of Federico Campbell’s Tijuana: Stories on the Border (1994), and co-editor of various volumes of essays. Her most recent book is Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture (2004).
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