Itinerary of Events:
| March 7 | ||
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| Panel Title | Panelists | Time |
| Belinda Rincon | Opening statements. | 0:00 |
| Richard Perez | Welcome statements | 0:00 |
| John Doe | Topic and room # | 0:00 |
| Jane Doe | Green, crispy, delicious. | 0:00 |
| March 8 | ||
| Urban Spaces | Paper Topic | Time |
| Eliseo Jacob | "Urban Scapes in Motion: Belonging, Alienation, and Confinement in the Works of Junot Díaz and Ernesto Quiñonez " | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Liamar Duran-Almarza | Liamar Duran-Almarza, "Dominicanyork Experiences: Urban E/motions in Contemporary Latina Literature" | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Jenny Colmenero | "Desert Thirsts, Big City Troubles: Ecologies of Place and Space in The Rain God and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue" | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Liberative Pedagogies and Ways of Reading and Teaching Latina/o Literatures | Paper Topic | Time |
| Omar Figueredo | "On Tenderness in Latina/o Literature: Literary Theory and Critical Pedagogy" | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Irania Patterson | "Edutainment Strategies: Development of a Community" | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Isabel Espinal | "El Fogón de las Escritoras: Using Participatory Action Research to Study Dominican Women Writers in the U.S.A." | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Angie Bonilla | "needs title" | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Isabel Martinez | Moderator? | 8:00AM-9:15AM |
| Social Journalism: Fiction, Theater, and Creative Nonfiction as Vehicles of Social Activism | Paper Topic | Time |
| Phillippe Diederich | T"he Factionists of Social Journalism: Between Fact and Fiction" | 0:00 |
| Rosebud Ben-Oni | “Twenty Fours in the Midnight of Matamoros: Resisting the Outlaw in Contemporary Mexico” | 0:00 |
| Adriana Paramo | “Looking for Esperanza: The Story of a Mother, a Child Lost, and Why They Matter to Us” | 0:00 |
| Drama and Performance | Paper Topic | Time |
| Rick Mitchell | “Latino/a Theater and the Subversion of Form: Maria Irene Fornes and Luis Rafael Sanchez” | 0:00 |
| Priscilla Page | “Broncas y Lunaticas: Mapping the Genealogy of Latina Performance Ensembles” | 0:00 |
| Maria Obando | “Representations of Slow Violence in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints” | 0:00 |
| BLR | Moderator | 0:00 |
| Immigrant Bodies and the State | Paper Topic | Time |
| Erin Nicholson Gale | “Border Patrol: Willful Forgetting in Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez” | 0:00 |
| Sebastian Terneus | “Escaping the State of Exception: the Homo Sacer Identity in Castillo’s The Guardians” | 0:00 |
| Javier O. Huerta | “Hyperdocumentation: Toward a Literature of the Undocumented” | 0:00 |
| Latina Identity in Caribbean Literaturee | Session II | Time |
| Victoria Chevalier | "Writing Things in the Box of Memory: Beyond Capital in Alba Ambert's The Anarchist's Daughter" | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Laura Halperin | “Choice, Constraint, and Coercion in Irene Vilar’s Impossible Motherhood” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Adriana Paramo | “Looking for Esperanza: The Story of a Mother, a Child Lost, and Why They Matter to Us” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Laura Lomas | “‘Personal Domestic Truths of a Self’s Struggle for Survival’: Placental and Patriarchal Economies in Irene Vilar’s Latina Feminist Memoirs” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Richard Perez | Moderator | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Pedro Pan Fiction and the Drama of Cuban Exile | Paper Topic | Time |
| Evelyn Boria-Rivera | “Pedro Pan and the Literature of the Cuban Kindermigration” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Kimberly del Busto Ramirez | “Dramatizing Operation Pedro Pan” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Jesus Hernandez | “Exile Acts: Illegitimacy, Exceptionalism, and Familialism in the Cuban Diaspora” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Reading Early Latina/o Literatures and Narratives of Revolution | Paper Topic | Time |
| Yolanda Padilla | “Mariano Azuela and the ‘Other’ Novel of the Mexican Revolution” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Emily García | “Critical Borderlands and Early Latina/o Literatures” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Mark Sanders | “Ricardo Batrell, Racial Democracy and the Cuban National Narrative” | 9:30-10:45AM |
| Latinas on the Move: Temporal Geographies and Alternative Genealogies of Latina Literature | Paper Topic | Time |
| Ariana Ruiz | “‘I don’t scream and twist just for the fun of it’: Mapping Alternative Latina Literatures” | 0:00 |
| Natalie Havlin | “Latinidad and the Politics of Transnational Alliance in Isabel de Monserrate’s Hados (1929)” | 0:00 |
| Ariana Vigil | “The Bo(u)nds of Latina Identity: Ana Menendez’s The Last War” | 0:00 |
| Sonia Rodriguez | “(Re)Imagining America: Immigration Narratives in Latino Children’s Literature” | 0:00 |
| Richard T. Rodriguez | panel chair | 0:00 |
| The Visual Economies of Latina/o Literature and Art | Paper Topic | Time |
| Irene Mata | “Re-imagining Resistance and Acts of Heroism: Recasting the Immigrant Subject in Dulce Pinzón’s “Superheroes” | 0:00 |
| Melanie Hernandez | “Re-envisioning La Llorona: Picture Books, Visual Affect, and Sandra Cisneros’ Have You Seen Marie?” | 0:00 |
| Johanna Ayala-Walsh | “Embrace the Face: Pictorial Representations of Latino Masculinity in Loving Che" | 0:00 |
| Maria DeGuzmán | “Helena María Viramontes’s Story “Snapshots”: A Chicana Latina Photo-critique of Culture-cide” | 0:00 |
| Ella Díaz | Moderator | 0:00 |
| Migration, Nature and Narrative: Environmental Justice Readings of Movement | Paper Topic | Time |
| David Vázquez | “Toxicity, Migration, and the Politics of Narration: Imagining Social and Environmen-tal Justice in Salvador Placencia’s The People of Paper” | 0:00 |
| Sarah Wald | “The Modern Environmental Movement and the United Farm Workers” | 0:00 |
| Priscilla Ybarra | “Decolonial Chicana/o Literatures: Environmental?” | 0:00 |
| Grisel Y. Acosta | “Environmental Clash: The Conflict Between Physical and Cultural Environments in Afro-Latino/a Literature” | 0:00 |
| The Spaces of Puerto Rican Aesthetics: From the Streets to the “Sea of Fields” | Seccion III | 11:00-12:15PM |
| Jacqueline Lazu | “Pietri, Piñero and the Pioneros: Nuyorican Aesthetics in the Making” | 0:00 |
| Liana M. Silva-Ford | “‘This Is a Bright Mundo, My Streets, My Barrio de Noche’: Piri Thomas’ Representations of New York City" | 0:00 |
| Marisel Moreno | “‘Sea of Fields’: Puerto Ricans in the Midwest in Fred Arroyo’s Western Avenue and Other Fictions” | 0:00 |
| Richard Perez | Moderator | 0:00 |
| Dominican American Lit and Oscar Wao | Paper Topic | Time |
| Sobeira Latorre | “(Re)Defining the Margins of Dominican American Literature” | 0:00 |
| Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak | “Multiculturalism, Transnationalism, and Oscar Wao” | 0:00 |
| Paul Stapleton | “Fallen Angels in Junot Díaz’s ‘Ysrael’” | 0:00 |
| Mestizaje | Paper Topic | Time |
| Michael García | “The Inauthentic Ethnic: Richard Rodriguez’s Brown” | 0:00 |
| Virginia Bolf | “Revisiting Mestizaje: Cherríe Moraga, Postpositivist Realism, and Mixture” | 0:00 |
| Victoria Carroll | “Generating Degenerates: Viral Miscegenation in the Works of Gil Cuadros” | 0:00 |
| Routledge Companion Roundtable | Topic | Time |
| Meredith Abarca | 0:00 | |
| Grisel Acosta | 0:00 | |
| Marta Caminero-Santangelo | 0:00 | |
| Norma Elia Cantu (tentatively) | 0:00 | |
| Roberta Fernandez | 0:00 | |
| Tace Hedrick | 0:00 | |
| Juanita Heredia (tentatively) | 0:00 | |
| Elena Machado Saez | 0:00 | |
| Emily Maguire | 0:00 | |
| Suzanne Oboler | 0:00 | |
| Ricardo Ortiz | 0:00 | |
| Ana Patricia Rodriguez | 0:00 | |
| Jon Rossini | 0:00 | |
| Jennifer Rudolph | 0:00 | |
| Maria Socorro Tabuenca | 0:00 | |
| Suzanne Bost | 0:00 | |
| Kristi Ulibarri | 0:00 | |
| David Vazquez | 0:00 | |
| BLR | Moderator | 0:00 |
| U.S.-Colombian Lit/Cult | Paper Topic | Time |
| María Elena Cepeda | “U.S.-Colombian Flexible Citizen-ship in Popular Media and Literature: Personal Aesthetics as Transnational Feminist Strategy” | 0:00 |
| Jennifer Harford Vargas | “Entering through el Hueco and Living in las Entrañas: The Colombian Undocument-ed Migrant Imaginary” | 0:00 |
| Isabel Cristina Porras | “‘We Give Birth in Full Makeup’: Sofia Vergara’s Performance of Costeña and Latina Excess” | 0:00 |
| Michelle Rocio Nasser | “Tense Identities: Narcotraficantes, Reinas and U.S. Colombians in Patricia Engle’s Vida” | 0:00 |
| Decolonial Imaginations: Representations of the “Other” and the Deconstruction of Colonial Powers | Paper Topic | Time |
| Selfa Chew | “From La Mulata de Cordoba to La Negra Angustias: Afro-Mestiza Representations in the Mexican National Imaginary” | 0:00 |
| Martha Chew | “Chinese Presence in Spanish-Language (Entertainment Industry) Film | 0:00 |
| Manuel Chavez | “Modernity, Social Contract Theory, and Decoloniality” | 0:00 |
| Teaching Latina/o Literature: Transforming Identity, Nationalism, Space, and Theory | Seccion IV | 2:00-3:15 |
| Jane Hseu | “Teaching Race and Space Through Asian American and Latino Performance Poetry: I Was Born with Two Tongues’ Broken Speak and Sonido Ink(quieto)’s Chicano, Illnoize” | 0:00 |
| Jennifer Rudolph | “Latin@ Awakenings amid White Privilege: Negotiating Empowerment and Privilege in the Latin@ Studies Classroom” | 0:00 |
| Randy Ontiveros | “O Say Can You See: Reflections on Patriotism, Anti-Americanism, and Teaching Latino/a Literature” | 0:00 |
| Jackie White | “Layers of Transparency: Teaching Latino/a Literature through Theory, or Learning to See How We’re Seeing and How We Might See (More and Differently)” | 0:00 |
| Reception/Canonization | Paper Topic | Time |
| John Cutler Alba | “Canons and Cultural Capital: A Comparative Reception History of Hunger of Memory and The Rain God” | 0:00 |
| Marco Fernando Navarro | “Burdens of Representation and Cultural (Mis)interpretations in Latino/a Pulitzer Prize Winning Latino/a Literature” | 0:00 |
| Teresa Marrero | “On Academic Publications and Influence: An Historiographic Case Study on Hispanic and Latino Theater” | 0:00 |
| Latina/o Fiction’s Challenges to Criticism | Paper Topic | Time |
| Rolando J. Romero | “The Geek and the Wonk: On the Incompatibility of History and Fiction in Latino Studies” | 0:00 |
| Marcus Embry | “Retrospaces in Junot Diaz” | 0:00 |
| John Waldron | “Abran Paso! Recent U.S. Latina/o Fiction and its Challenges to Criticism” | 0:00 |
| Narrative, Nation, and Transnationalism in Caribbean Latino/a Writers | Paper Topic | Time |
| Marta Caminero Santangelo | “Illegality/ Illegitimacy: Undocumented Immigration and the Caribbean Family in Junot Diaz’s Drown” | 0:00 |
| Maya Socolovsky | “Transnational Narratives: Orality and Literacy in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” | 0:00 |
| Ylce Irizarry | “‘Her Price for a Healthy Newborn: Thirty Thousand U.S. Dollars’: Infants as Global Capital in The Lady Matador’s Hotel” | 0:00 |
| Richard Perez | Moderator | 0:00 |
| Post-Apocalyptic, Speculative, and Dystopian Fiction and Film: Latina/o Bodies in the Post-9/11 Imagination | Paper Topic | Time |
| Carlos Decena | “Body Portals: Flows through Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer” | 0:00 |
| Ruben Mendoza | “Decolonial Imaginary and Differential Consciousness in the Rhetorical Work of Chicano Speculative Fiction: Cosmopoetics of Dystopic Allegory in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex” | 0:00 |
| Christopher Rivera | “Post-9/11 Conflations of Latina/os and Middle Eastern Muslims in the American Imagination” | 0:00 |
| Chronicles of Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Social Justice in Daniel Alarcon, Melinda Palacio, and Junot Diaz | Seccion V | 3:30-4:45PM |
| Amrita Das | “Representing the U.S. to a Latin American Audience: Daniel Alarcon’s cronicas” | 0:00 |
| Cristina Herrera | “Constructing Chicana Daughterly Agency: Maternal Activism and Estrangement in Melinda Palacio’s Ocotillo Dreams” | 0:00 |
| Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez | “Junot Díaz as a Transnational Chronicler in This Is How You Lose Her” | 0:00 |
| The (Un)Usual Suspects: New Locations of Intersectional Thinking on Race and Desire | Paper Topic | Time |
| Ernesto J. Martínez | “The Brown Boy Looks (with Terror) at the Brown Boy” | 0:00 |
| Paula M. L. Moya | “Dismantling the Master’s House: The Decolonial Literary Imagination of Junot Diaz” | 0:00 |
| Michael Hames-García | “A Man, But What Kind? John Rechy’s Ambivalent Rejection of Homonormativity” | 0:00 |
| Julie A. Minich | discussant | 0:00 |
| Pensamiento Teatro: Movements, Geographies, Futures | Paper Topic | Time |
| Jon D. Rossini | “On the Geography of Articulation in Latina/o Theater” | 0:00 |
| Patricia Ybarra | “Latina/o Dramaturgy, Narcotraffic, and the Neoliberal Critique” | 0:00 |
| Brian Herrera | “Executing the Stereotype in Latina/o Drama” | 0:00 |
| Latina/o Poetics | Paper Topic | Time |
| Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson | “Looking at Chicana/o Poetry: The Visual in Lorna Dee Cervantes and Eduardo Corral” | 0:00 |
| Daniel Enrique Pérez | “Queer Chicano Poetics: Rigoberto Gonzalez in Verse” | 0:00 |
| Nancy Kang | “‘Breath of Light, Anatomy of Fire’: Rhina Espaillat’s Thanatopic Migrations” | 0:00 |
| Michael Dowdy | Moderator? | 0:00 |
| Economies and Neoliberalism | Paper Topic | Time |
| Sharada Balachandran Orihuela | “Shadow Economies and the Hemispheric Novel” | Time |
| Kristy L. Ulibarri | “El Barrio no se vende?: Privatization and Gentrification in Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams” | 0:00 |
| Sarah Bates-Muñoz | needs title | |
| Decolonial Praxis, Chicana/o Critical Theory, and the ‘End of History’ | Paper Topic | Time |
| Marcelle Maese-Cohen | “The Decolonial Literary Imagination: Conscientizaçāo and (W)holistic Form” | |
| Dennis López | “Writing in the Future Tense: Ideology, Narrative, and Latina/o Literature at the End of History” | |
| Carlos Gallego | “The Chicana/o Theorist as Philosopher: Dialectics and the Onto- Epistemological Divide” | |
| Marcial González | Respondent/Moderator | |
| Special Session | Paper Topic | 5:00PM-6:00PM |
| Elena Machado Sáez | Latino/a Studies Association Brainstorming Session | |
| Roundtable Discussion | Paper Topic | 6:00–7:30PM |
| Elena Machado Sáez | (introductions) | |
| Richard Perez | (moderator) | |
| Mary Pat Brady | ||
| José Esteban Muñoz | ||
| Frances Negrón-Muntaner | ||
| March 9 | ||
| Social Journalism: Fiction, Theater, and Creative Nonfiction as Vehicles of Social Activism | PapicTopec | Time |
| Phillippe Diederich | T"he Factionists of Social Journalism: Between Fact and Fiction" | 0:00 |
| Rosebud Ben-Oni | “Twenty Fours in the Midnight of Matamoros: Resisting the Outlaw in Contemporary Mexico” | 0:00 |
| Adriana Paramo | “Looking for Esperanza: The Story of a Mother, a Child Lost, and Why They Matter to Us” | 0:00 |
| Drama and Performance | Paper Topic | Time |
| Rick Mitchell | “Latino/a Theater and the Subversion of Form: Maria Irene Fornes and Luis Rafael Sanchez” | 0:00 |
| Priscilla Page | “Broncas y Lunaticas: Mapping the Genealogy of Latina Performance Ensembles” | 0:00 |
| Maria Obando | “Representations of Slow Violence in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints” | 0:00 |
| BLR | Moderator | 0:00 |
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Special Panels
- March 7th Learn about the conference
- Learn about the conference - March 8th The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Literature Roundtable
-Abstract
-List of Panelists - March 9th Latina/o Fiction Panel
-Special panel featuring some of today's most exciting literary voices in Latina/o fiction.
Panelists will include Herman Carrillo, Angie Cruz, Alex Espinosa, Ernesto Quiñones, and Helena María Viramontes.
-The Freedom University Roundtable.
-Join Dr. Lorgia Garcia Peña, co-founder of Freedom University, for a discussion about the mission behind FU.