Please join us for our next Mahindra Humanities Center New Faculty Lunch on Thursday, November 6th at 12:00 in Barker 133.  Our speaker will be Lorgia García Peña, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature.

Professor García Peña's work focuses on contemporary U.S. Latino/a literature and cultures, Caribbean literature and cultures, performance studies, race and ethnicity, transnational feminism, migration, human rights, and Dominican and Dominican diaspora studies.  Her first book, Archiving Contradictions: Bodies, Nations, and the Production of Dominicanidad, studies the process of racial identification of the Dominican subject as linked to the geographical and imaginary borders that placed the Dominican nation between Haiti and the United States since the birth of the republic in the 19th century.  Her next book project, Translating Blackness: Latinos Negotiating Race and Belonging Across the Atlantic, engages various geopolitical spaces-- Latin America, the United States and Europe-to provide a new cartography for understanding contemporary Latino/a racialization.

If you can attend, please RSVP by Monday, November 3rd, to Sarah Razor at mhchlunch@fas.harvard.edu.

 

Best wishes,

Homi Bhabha

HOMI K. BHABHA

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center
Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost

Harvard University

 

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