Honors College and Humanities Center Host Book Zoom for Associate Professor Erika Alemanara

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Cover image for Erika Almenara's 'The Language of the In-Between'

The Honors College and U of A Humanities Center will host a Book Zoom at 6 p.m. today, Monday, Nov. 14, with associate professor Erika Almenara of the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

The forum will celebrate the publication of Almenara's The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-Hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru. Almenara, who teaches courses on masculinity, contemporary Latin American literature, the intersection between politics and aesthetics, and trauma writing in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Almenara has been honored with a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award as well as numerous grants to support her research.

Almenara's work will be discussed by an interdisciplinary panel of scholars to include: 

• Ryan Calabretta-Sajder is associate professor of Italian and section head and serves as associate director of Gender Studies. He studies Italian and Italian American literature and film through the lens of feminist and queer theories.
• Professor Corrigan is the award-winning author of Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties and the editor of the book #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge, 2022). She was a 2021-2022 Residential Research Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. And she is currently the inaugural 21st Century Democracy Fellow at INTERFORM, a community arts organization in Springdale, Arkansas, committed to social justice and political equality.
• Yajaira M. Padilla is professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the U of A, as well as director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program. Her research and teaching center on Central American cultural and literary studies and Central Americans in a US Latinx/a/o context. She is the author of From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals: US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging (UT Press, 2022) and Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives (SUNY 2012). 

After the panel, Almenara will answer questions for the audience. 

This virutal event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please email uahc@uark.edu for more information.