Germán Labrador Méndez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University “The Cannibal Wave. The Cultural Logic of Spain’s Temporality of Crisis (Revolution, biopolitics, hunger and memory)”-

Date: 

Monday, April 7, 2014, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Emerson Hall, Room 108

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (light reception to follow in Emerson 106)

 

Interests: Literary and cultural history; memory studies; poetry; social movements, and urban cultures. His primary area of research is Modern and Contemporary Spain.

 

Books: Letras arrebatadas, Poesía y química en la transición española [Raptured Letters: Chemical Poetry during the Spanish Transition to Democracy],

 

Culpables por la literatura. Imaginación política y contracultura en la transición española [Guilty of Literature. Political Imagination and Counter-Culture in the Spanish Transition to Democracy](1968-1984) (Siglo XXI, forthcoming),

Muerto el perro, se acabó la rabia. 25 poetas underground de la transición española (Acuarela & Antonio Machado Libros),

Los muertos, José Luis Hidalgo, German Labrador Mendez, ed. (Devenir)