[Elena Machado Sáez]

Dear MLA members,

Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)

• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
• Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
• Presentations:
  • Metabolizing the Border: Tanya Aguiñiga and the Affects of Consumption, Salvador Herrera, U of California, Los Angeles
  • Latinx Poetry Senses the Body into Subjectivity, Stephanie Fetta, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Following a Future: Radical Interdependence in Queer Latin Dance, Chiara Giovanni, Stanford U
  • Being with Emotion, Writing through Form: Felipe M. Chacón’s Poetic Texture, Anna Maria Nogar, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

 

“Afro-Latinx Stories” (Panel #75)

• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 1:45 PM-3:00 PM EST.
• Presider: Elena Machado Sáez, Professor of English, Bucknell University
• Presentations:
  • Black Latina Girlhood Poetics of the Body: Church, Sexuality, and Dispossession, Omaris Z. Zamora, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
  • Afro-Latinx DNA and New Mestizas in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina, Karina A. Vado, U of Florida
  • Pitfalls of Ascension: African American Affinities and Post-Black Identity Politics in Mama’s Girl, Trent Masiki, Boston U
  • Afro-Latinx Apocalypso: Ecology and Ritual Practice, Yomaira C. Figueroa, Michigan State U

 

And please mark your calendars for our forum\’s co-sponsored online social event on Saturday from 7:15 PM – 8:30 PM:

• #548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean, and Hemispheric American

 

Cheers,

Elena

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Elena Machado Sáez

she/her/hers/ella

Professor of English

Bucknell University

http://elenamachado.blogs.bucknell.edu/

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