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Professor Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, in her last quarter teaching at °®åú´«Ã½, will host three prominent Chicanas to discuss Literature, Theory, and Film.
 
Helena María Viramontes
Date: October 10, 2016
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Location:  
Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them (2007), focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes was born and raised. A teacher and mentor to countless young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University.
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Emma Pérez
Date: October 11, 2016
Time: 1:30-4:20pm
Location: Encina Hall 464
Historian Emma Pérez is Chair and Full Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her novel Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009) narrates the violent displacement of Mexicans, African Americans and Native tribes in the wake of the Battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto in 1836. With its crossdressing protagonist, the novel also queers this intervention into official Texas history. Dr. Pérez is also the author of the theoretical work The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History.
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Aurora Guerrero
Date: October 13, 2016
Time: 12:00-1:20pm
Location: Building 160, Room 325
Aurora Guerrero was born in San Francisco to Mexican immigrant parents. She earned an MFA in directing from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a co-founder of Womyn Image Makers. In 2005 Ms. Guerrero was selected as a Sundance Institute Ford Foundation film fellow, where she participated in the Native Indigenous Lab. In 2012, she made her feature film debut at Sundance. Mosquita y Mari tells the coming-of-age story of two teenage Chicanas, who form a relationship ignited by sexual attraction. Her next project, Los Valientes, features a young undocumented gay Latino.