When:
Monday, June 7, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Spanish and Portuguese
(847) 491-8249
Group: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Category: Academic
The Nineteenth Century Dialogue Series present:
Prof. Jennifer French, Williams College
Jennifer French is Professor of Latin American Literature at the Spanish Department at Williams College. Her research examines the ways in which colonialism and neocolonialism have influenced relations among human groups and between humans and nonhuman nature in Latin America. Her first book, Nature, Neocolonialism and the Spanish-American Regional Writers, examines Spanish-American regional literature of the early 20th century, specifically the subgenre known as the novela de la tierra or “novel of the land,” as a response to labor abuses and environmental degradation associated with British informal imperialism over the long 19th century. With Professor Gisela Heffes of Rice University, Professor French is currently working on The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader, an anthology of primary sources that bring into focus the relationships between human societies and the more-than-human world in Latin America, from the earliest colonial period to the present.