Event Title
Conference Opening and Keynote Speaker
Presentation Type
Event
Location
Fine Arts 126, Uptown Campus, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY
Start Date
3-3-2017 2:00 PM
Description
Professor Yolanda Martinez San Miguel is a Professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Program of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of a number of texts that have made waves in the fields of Caribbean Cultural studies and studies of colonialism such as “Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context” in 2014, “From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse” in 2008 and editing anthologies of “Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities” and “Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought” both published in 2016. Her more recent work on archipelagic studies and culture will be the substance of her talk today. She regularly teaches course on cultural studies and migration at Rutgers
Conference Opening and Keynote Speaker
Fine Arts 126, Uptown Campus, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY
Professor Yolanda Martinez San Miguel is a Professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Program of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of a number of texts that have made waves in the fields of Caribbean Cultural studies and studies of colonialism such as “Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context” in 2014, “From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse” in 2008 and editing anthologies of “Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities” and “Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought” both published in 2016. Her more recent work on archipelagic studies and culture will be the substance of her talk today. She regularly teaches course on cultural studies and migration at Rutgers