Writers Speak | Álvaro Enrigue in conversation with Alejandra Vela Martínez
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Speaker: Álvaro Enrigue
About the Speakers
Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novels include Now I Surrender and You Dreamed of Empires. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.
Alejandra Vela Martínez is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her current book manuscript, Newsstand Feminism: Cursi Aesthetics and Feminine Counter Archives in Contemporary Mexico, analyzes women’s magazines from the 1930s to the 1980s. Professor Martínez's research questions the Latin American cultural field by looking at how different “counter-archives”, as she calls them in her current book manuscript, illuminate literary and cultural history involving feminine writers and materials.
About the Series: Writers Speak
Writers Speak, convened by Duncan White, brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.