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The Department of Spanish & Portuguese invites you to a lecture by Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui of Rutgers University entitled:  Melodramatic Masculinity: Pedro Infante, Body, Archive, Nation.

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui's research interests include 20th-Century Latin American and Latino/a Literature and Cultural Studies, gender theory and sexuality studies, and psychoanalysis. He is author of The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives (2014) and Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature (2002). He is co-editor of the forthcoming Latin American Keywords. He has also published articles on sexuality, queer identities in Latino/a America, and melodrama. His current project deals with the relationship between of melodrama and masochism in a series of Latino American novels, performances, films, and essays, as well as another project on the intersection between Latino literature and psychoanalysis.