Organized by the 2024-25 Horror of Color Group Sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside

Reading group meetings will take place via Zoom.
Regular participation not required. Drop-ins are welcome.

For more information on participation and to receive readings, please contact Magda Garcia, Assistant Professor of English at UCR, magdag@ucr.edu. 

Schedule
11AM TO 12:30PM ON ZOOM

Oct 25 - Sheri-Marie Harrison’s “The New Black Gothic” and John Jenning’s “Scratching at the Dark”

Nov 22 - Courtney R. Baker’s “Reformulating Black Cinematic Labor”

Jan 24 - Brenda S. Lara’s “Ciguanabas, Refugees, and Other Hauntings: Three SalvadoranWomen's Epistemic Hauntings as Resistance Against Heteropatriarchy”

Feb 21 - Excerpts from Sayak Valencia’s Gore Capitalism

Mar 21 - Leticia Alvarado’s “Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings”

Apr 25 - Excerpts from Carol Edelman Warrior’s (1962 – 2018) dissertation, “Baring the Windigo’s Teeth: The Fearsome Figure in Native American Narratives”

May 23 - Kali Simmons’ “‘It Has to Stop’: Refusing Colonial Narratives in The Only Good Indians”

Join Stream:  https://ucr.zoom.us/j/91310316464