Join Sarah M. Quesada for a discussion that will focus on the poetry of former UCR Chancellor Tomás Rivera.

Sarah M. Quesada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and by courtesy of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies and an affiliate of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University. She will discuss her new book, The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP 2022). Her talk will focus on the poetry of former UCR Chancellor Tomás Rivera. A comparatist in Latinx, African, and Latin American literatures, her work engages colonial archival and field work across the Global South. Quesada’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Latino Studies, Aztlán, Small Axe, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies, and Latinx Literature in Transition, 1898-1992, among other places. She serves on the Executive Committee for the MLA’s TC Anthropology and Literature and on the Editorial Advisory Board for Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. 

This discussion is sponsored by the UCR Department of English, the Tomás Rivera Endowment and the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair, and the UCR Library.

RSVP on Eventbrite and attend in-person on Monday, Nov. 7 at 4 p.m. in CHASS INTS 1111.