Joseph Pierce, “Beyond Translation: Toward a Queer/Cuir Latin American Studies”

Knight Library Browsing Room, 6pm

Joseph Pierce, associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University, will give a lecture titled “Beyond Translation: Toward a Queer/Cuir Latin American Studies,” on January 30, 2020. 

Professor Pierce’s research focuses on indigenous studies, queer studies and hemispheric approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of GLQ, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable,” and he is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019). Professor Pierce’s visit to the UO is planned in conjunction with a course to be taught by  Sergio Rigoletto (associate professor, romance languages) in winter term 2020: RL407/507 Queer from the South.

* CLLAS is cosponsoring this talk as part of its two-year theme (2019-2021) 
The Politics of Language in the Americas: Power, Culture, History, and Resistance.

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