El Mundo Zurdo 2015 Conference Schedule
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM El Mundo Zurdo 2015 Welcome & Multipurpose Room, Gordon-White Building (GWB 2.206) 210 W. 24th Street 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Registration (GWB 2.206)
Thursday, May 28, 2015
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration & Vendors Glickman Conference Center (CLA) 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Anzaldúa Archive Workshop A Sid Richardson Hall 1.108 10:30 AM – NOON Anzaldúa Archive Workshop B Sid Richardson Hall 1.108 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Welcome and Opening Plenary Jester Center A121A María Cotera 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM Concurrent Sessions 1 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 1A JES A217A Panel: Bridges, Borders, and Bodies: Anzaldúan Perspectives Moderator: Martha Galván-Mandujano Mariana Alessandri, “Forging el Mundo Zurdo: Sexual and Linguistic Atravesados in the Rio Grande Valley” Raisa Alvarado, “‘Return to Sender’: Postrace Constructions of the Monstrous, Alien, Latina/o Other”
Session 1B CLA 1.302D Panel: Archives, Publishing, and Identity Issues Moderator: Miriam Romero Suzanne Bost, “The Gloria Anzaldúa Papers and the Collective Self” Sarah Becker, “‘The Path of the Red and Black Ink’: Archival Aesthetics and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers (1942-2004)” Altheria Gaston, “Anzaldúan Theories of Identity in Conversation with Black Feminist: An Autohistoria”
Session 1C CLA 1.302F Roundtable: Poetic Essays Reflecting on Anzaldúa’s Border as “La Herida Abierta” Moderator: Amelia Montes ire’ne lara silva, Tim Z. Hernández, Emmy Pérez, Laurie Ann Guerrero, and Dan Vera
Session 1D CLA 1.302C Panel: Nepantler@s by any other Name: Anzaldúan Theory and Critical Scholarship on Transgender Mestiz@ Lives Moderator: Rita Urquijo-Ruiz Robert Gutiérrez-Pérez, “Nepantleras in the Academy: Monstrous Border-Crossers In/Between Everyday Life” Linda Heidenreich, “Looking for Safety In-Between Capitalist Regimes: Nepantla2” Eddy Francisco Alvarez, Jr., “Finding Sequins in the Rubble: Nepantlera Theory and Jotería in Los Angeles” Pedro DiPietro, “Sideways Selves: Theorizing Embodiment in Tlilli, Tlapalli” CLA 1.302B Session 1E Panel: Exploring the Gendering and Racialization of Borderlands Bodies, Identities and Movements Moderator: Arcelia Hernández José Romero, “The Ethnographer’s Mother(s): Reading Brown Hunger with Anzaldúa and Moraga” Lupe Flores, “Gendering Coyotaje through Cultural Borderlands: Women and Men in the Clandestine Crossing of Migrants at the Texas-Mexican Border” Carlos Figueiredo, “The Representation of the Subaltern in Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa”
Session 1F JES A216A Panel: A Tale Between Paths: Conocimiento in Learning and Lived Experience” Moderator: Lauren Espinoza Aurora Aguirre, “The Tutor is in Nepantla: Writing Conventions and Conocimiento” Leticia Medina, “From Within: Chicanas and La Familia In The Classroom” Yasmina Parra Codina, “Movimiento as Creating Third Space Learning: Autonomy and Balance in Movement”
Session 1G JES A218A Roundtable: Re-instilling Hope, Social Changes and Healing through Arte, Poesia, and Testimonio Moderator: Jackie Cuevas Brenda Sendejo, Elvira Prieto, and Maria Elena Cruz
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Concurrent Sessions 2 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 2A JES A217A Panel: Perspectives on Color and Mestizaje Moderator: Micaela Díaz-Sánchez Ana María Pérez, “Mujeres de Color: Theorizing Morenidad as a Critical Site of Race and Color” Michael Reyes, “Marassa and Mestiza Consciousness, Comparing Danticat and Anzaldúa” Sonia Hart, “Race, Gender, and Categories of Pathology: An Ethnic Studies Critique of ‘Ataque de Nervios’”
Session 2B CLA 1.302D Panel: Tracing Anzaldúan Legacies from Children’s Literature to the Archives Moderator: Amelia Montes Alana Varner, “Sensing the Archive: Performative Practices and the Recipe Materials of the Gloria Anzaldúa Papers” Marcella Clinard, “Re-Writing Borderlands, Re-Reading Borderlands: An Analysis of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Revision Process in ‘El sonavabitche’” Anneleise Azua, “Prietita’s Legacy: A Closer Look at Anzaldúa’s Children’s Literature”
Session 2C CLA 1.302F Panel: “May we allow spirit to sustain and guide us from the path of disillusion”: Using Spirit as a Catalyst for Self, Societal, and Planetary Transformation Moderator: Brenda Sendejo April Michels, “‘At Times the Sacred Takes You Unaware’: Eco-Spiritual Awakenings in the Writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa” S. Sam R. Schmitt, “Saint Marsha of Christopher Street: Positing Spiritual Activism and Nepantla Embodiment among Early Drag Queens and Street Transvestite Activists” Carla Wilson, “The Liminal, the Luminous, and the Dark: Spiritual Activism and the Dark Night of the Soul”
Session 2D CLA 1.302C Panel: “The Girls Your Mother Warned You About”: Re-signifying Political Femininity through Chola Politics Moderator: Linda Heidenreich Lizeth Gutiérrez, “‘Esas muchachas se ven desmadrosas’: Politicizing Cholas through Sitio y Lengua” Verónica Sandoval, “Repping Raza: Revising the Foundational Myth of Adelita, Pachuca, and Chola” Priscila Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, “Aesthetics of Resistance” Madeline Alviso, “The Makings of a Chola Pinup: A Collection of Poetry and Photography Inspired by a Virtual Movement”
Session 2E CLA 1.302B Panel: Literary Texts: Translations and Theories of El Mundo Zurdo Moderator: Alejandra Barrientos Helane Androne, “La Nahuala of Story in Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo, or Puro Cuento” Megan Nieto, “Sandra Cisneros as a Spiritual Voice for Change” Monica Got, “Women Victims across Cultures: An Anzaldúan Reading of Ana Castillo and Anita Desai”
Session 2F JES A216A Roundtable: Mestiz@ Consciousness: Developing Praxis for Decolonizing the Mind, Body, and Spirit Moderator: Elsa Ruiz José Castillo, Heidi Coronado, Lindsey Davis, Ramón Hernández, Silvia Villanueva-Toscano, Alberto Palmas, and Megan Pennings
Session 2G JES A218A Panel: Blurring the Borders: A Discussion of Borders in Agency, Digital Spaces, Queer Theory, and Literature Moderator: Berenice Dimas Jessica Camp, “Reimaging Agency through Gloria Anzaldúa’s Theory of La Facultad” Erika Johnson, “Cybernepantleras in Thirdspace” Jamie Jones, “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Postcolonial Queer” Tawny LeBouef Tullia, “‘Your identity has roots’: Connecting Intuitive Knowing and the Land in Anzaldúa, Morrison, and Marmon Silko”
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Benson Latin American Collection Benson Latin American Collection Welcome Reception Sid Richardson Hall (SRH 1.108) 2300 Red River Street
Friday, May 29, 2015
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration & Vendors Glickman Conference Center (CLA) 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions 3 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 3A JES A217A Panel: Performance Studies and Arts Practice: Spirit and Activity in Motion Moderator: Arcelia Hernández A’Keitha Carey, “Finding Nepantla in Caribbean Cultural Performance” Emily Jean Hood, “Materiality and Spirituality in Participatory Art Practice” Chantiri Ramírez Resen, “Coming Out of the Shadows: Queering Activist Performances, Finding Disruptions, and Letting the Wild Tongues Speak in the Immigrant Rights Movement” Dava Hernández, “Moving Bodies/Dancing Identities: A Dance Studies Approach to the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa”
Session 3B CLA 1.302D Panel: Epistemologies of Critical Illness and Anzaldúan Spiritual Activism as Method and Practice Moderator: William Calvo Nicholas Centino, “Dreaming of Adelita: Healing and Spiritual Activism in the Wake of the Arrebato of Child Loss” Jean Aguilar-Valdez, “Gloria’s Words as Balm and Fire: Soul Wound Curanderismo and Ladrando Como Xingona” Christina Gutiérrez, “Locating an Epistemology of Critical Illness in Anzaldúa’s Published and Unpublished Illness Narratives”
Session 3C CLA 1.302F Panel: Criando y creando: Latina Mothers in Academic Spaces Moderator: Larissa Mercado-López Freyca Calderon & Karla O’Donald, “Criando y Creando: Latina Mothers in Academic Spaces” Mariana G. Martínez, “‘Eso es lo que quieres para ti misma en convertirte en alguien tan diferente a mi?’: Una carta para mi madre” Carina Olaru, “Accommodating the Growing Latino/a Student Population in Small Liberal Arts Colleges”
Session 3D CLA 1.302C Roundtable: When Queerness IS a Choice: Discovering Sexual Identities through Decolonization Moderator: Susana Ramírez Susana Ramírez, Anita Tijerina Revilla, Griselda Muñoz
Session 3E CLA 1.302B Panel: Autohistorias as Conocimiento: Reclaiming Ourselves in the Face of Oppressive Institutional Label Moderator: Micaela Díaz-Sánchez Jazmin V. Escobar, “A Fat Chicana’s Testimonio and Reclamation: Challenging Majoritarian Social Constructs of Body Image, Sex, and Abortion” Gibrán Güido, “Imagining Jack Lira: Re-membering the Coyolxauhqui Way” Mónica Hernández, “Making Menudo, Feeding the Soul: Towards a Fat Chicana Epistemology” Gloria Negrete-López, “Healing Wounds: Autohistoria as Methodology and Liberatory Practice” Session 3F JES A216A Panel: Documenting the Struggle: Personal Paths, Collective Journeys Moderator: Jackie Cuevas Adrianna Simone, “Building a Bridge One Book at a Time: Reading Groups, Literary Theory, and the Mestiza Way” Coco Magallanes, “Anzaldúa´s Coyolxauhqui Imperative as a Platform to Read Roque Dalton’s Political Autobiography” Brenda Sendejo, “A Genealogy of Chicana Feminist Thought: Gloria Anzaldúa, Martha P. Cotera, and the Bridging of Academia and Community”
Session 3G JES A218A Panel: Calling the Soul Back: Spiritual Form and the Permeable Body Moderator: Lauren Espinoza Christina García López, “Calling the Soul Back into the Body: Gloria Anzaldúa and Healing the Susto of Public Trauma” Marcelle Maese-Cohen, “Literary and Spiritual Form in Forbes’ Aztecas del Norte and Anzaldúa’s Borderlands” (Brena) Yu-Chen Tai, “The Permeable Body Paradigm: Exploring the Symbiotic Body in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Work” Discussant: Theresa Delgadillo
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Concurrent Sessions 4 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 4A JES A217A Panel: Working with Anzaldúa’s Writing Notas: An Archival Experiment in Four Parts Moderator: AnaLouise Keating AnaLouise Keating, “Transforming Despair, Decolonizing Epistemologies: Anzaldúa’s Relational Ontology” Betsy Dahms, “‘Enchanting the World’ with Words: Anzaldúan Writing as Shamanic Prayer” Kelli Zaytoun, “The Body, The Self: A Snapshot of Anzaldúa’s Theory of the Self in Archive Notas H37-47” Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, “ Archiving Anzaldúa with Deleuze: Theorizing Notas H37-47 as a Writing Machine”
Session 4B CLA 1.302D Panel: Spiritual and Physical Healing Moderator: Brenda Sendejo Danielle López, “Curanderas and the Praxis of Chicana Spiritual Activism in the Rio Grande Valley” Sandra Pacheco, “Curanderismo, Limpias, y Conocimiento” Ari Chagoya, “Las Hijas de la Chingada y the Path to Nepantla”
Session 4C CLA 1.302F Panel: Films, Media and Anzaldúa Moderator: Alejandra Barrientos Tania Romero, “Mujeres sin Barreras: Women as Authors of Latin American Documentary Film” Stalina Villarreal and Stephanie Saint Sanchez, “Coatlicue and Chicana Laundry Pictures”
Session 4D CLA 1.302C Panel: Toward El Mundo Zurdo: Empowering Youth and Mobilizing Communities Moderator: Miriam Romero Emily Aguilar Thomas, “The Necessary Classroom: Culturally Responsible Pedagogy as a Community- Building Practice” Diane Benavides Ríos, “Intersection of Raza Youth, Power, Poverty, and Survival. ‘The Walk’” Felipe Vargas, “Con Cariño: An Organizer’s Reflections on Undocumented Youth Movement Making Moments of Clarity”
Session 4E CLA 1.302B Panel: Re-search, Reflexiones and a Reclaiming Moderator: Jessica López Lyman Esther Díaz Martín, “The Nepantla Paradigm and Contra-conocimiento: Tools for Conducting Research from a Chicana Position” Jean Aguilar-Valdez, “Decolonizing Patriarchal, White Supremacist Science: Reclaiming The New Mestiza Ciencia de Nosotras” Alba Onofrio, “Re/membering Guadalupe: Anzaldúan Methodologies for Exegesis of the Nican Mopohua”
Session 4F JES A216A Panel: Chican@/Latin@ Teatro and Performance through an Anzaldúan Lens Moderator: Christina Gutiérrez Marci McMahon, “Closely Listening to Sonic Borderscapes in US Latina/o Theater: Saracho’s El Nogalar and López’s Detained in the Desert” Trevor Boffone, “How to [Un]Tame a Wild Tongue: Performing Silence and Trilingual Identidad in Floresislas’s Tamales de Puerco” Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, “Esperanza Rising: Embracing Nepantla, an Example for Latino/a Youth”
Session 4G JES A218A Panel: Healing in the Borderlands: A Reclaiming of MindBodySpiritHeart Moderator: Lauren Espinoza Shayda Kafai, “Disability Studies and Gloria Anzaldúa: Expanding Border Living” Javier Gómez, “Roses that Grew through the Concrete: Resistencia through (Dis)ability” Dora López, “Reflexiones del Corazón: Exploring the ‘Mestiza Conciousness’” Nayely Sandra Castrellón, “Viaje con Anzaldúa: A Tale of Travel and Healing”
NOON – 1:30 PM Luncheon Gregory Gym Arena
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM Concurrent Sessions 5 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 5A JES A217A Panel: Atravesad@s in Academia: Chican@ Perspectives on Transcending the Academy as Graduate Students and New Faculty Moderator: Catalina Bartlett Marcos Del Hierro, “From the Hallway to the Room: Moving from Survival to Success in the Academy” Crystal Bustamante, “A De-colonial Story of a Chicana’s First-Year Graduate Experience” Victor Del Hierro, “Raza Makes my Cipher Complete: Decolonizing the Academy through the ‘subtle’ Transgressions our Bodies Always Represent” Catalina Bartlett, “Breaking the Rules: Genre-Crossing, Environmental Justice, and the Novel-Writing Dissertation Experience in Academia”
Session 5B CLA 1.302D Panel: Using Anzaldúan Strategies for Creating Spaces of Transformation in Educational Contexts Moderator: Elsa Ruiz Grazyna Zygadlo, “How to Tame a Wild Academic – Teaching Anzaldúan Thought in the Polish Context.” Vanessa Martínez, “The Experience of Teaching for Multiple Minoritized Faculty: A Narrative Inquiry of the Impact of Institutional Marginalization on the Professoriate Experience” Amara Graf, “Pedagogical Praxis: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza Hermeneutics” Rufina Cortéz, “The Concept of ‘Home’: A Physical and Mythical Space of Belonging for Students and Faculty of Color”
Session 5C CLA 1.302F Panel: Borderlands, Bodies, and Languages: Transcultural Fragmentation and Redefinition Moderator: Lisa de la Portilla Stephanie Wheeler, “Gloria Anzaldúa, Frida Kahlo, and the Violence of Fragmentation” Aydé Enriquez-Loya, “The Exigency of Transcultural Violence Within Transnational Borders: Reimagining and Redefining the Borderlands” Casie Cobos, “Interrupted Dialogue: Mental Illness, Creative Writing, and Memoir”
Session 5D CLA 1.302C Roundtable: Homework: Touching the Wound and other Meditations on Anzaldúan Pedagogies for Learning, Teaching, and Healing Moderator: Isaac Hinojosa Sandra D. Garza, Lisa Mendoza Knecht, Sylvia Mendoza, LeeAnn Epstein
Session 5E CLA 1.302B Plática: “Encountering Nepantla”: the Artwork of Latina Artists Santa Barraza and Liliana Wilson Moderator: Elvia Niebla Liliana Wilson and Santa Barraza
Session 5F JES A216A Panel: Using Anzaldúan Philosophy to Understand Latina/os Commitment to the Public Good Moderator: Jessica López Lyman Aída Hurtado, “José’s Story: Anzaldúa’s Conocimiento in Restructuring Masculinity” Jessica López Lyman, “SotaRican Leader: María Isa, Hip-Hop, and Creative Activism” Karina Cervantez, “Practicing Mestiza Consciousness for the Public Good” Discussant: William Calvo
Session 5G JES A218A Panel: Goddesses, Spirits, and La Tierra: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Sacred Tapestry Moderator: Sonia Saldívar Hull Sara Salazar, “My Grandmother’s Goddesses: Protectors of Spiritual Borderlands and Symbols of the Healing Arts” David Hatfield Sparks, “Parallel Lives: Seth, Spiritualism, and Soul-Making” Randy Conner, “Praise-Hymn to La Tierra: Anzaldúa’s Earth-Centered Pagan Beliefs and Practices”
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Benson Fellows Roundtable JES A121A Cuauhtémoc Thelonious Mexica, Amelia Mária de la Luz Montes, Sylvia Mendoza, and Margaret Galván
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Mexic-Arte Exhibition Mexic-Arte Museum 419 Congress Avenue
Saturday, May 30, 2015
8:00 AM – NOON Registration & Vendors Glickman Conference Center (CLA) (CLA) 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions 6 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 6A JES A217A Panel: Reading and Teaching the Canon Moderator: Patrick Slattery Kristin Hall, Patrick Slattery, Sungyoon Lee and Mario Itzel Suárez, “Reading Moby Dick from the Borderlands” Rob Johnson, “Entering the Canon: The First Edition of the Heath Anthology and La Frontera”
Session 6B CLA 1.302F Panel: Embodied Readings of Various “Texts” – Place, Violence, and Demons Moderator: Martha Galván-Mandujano Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, “Border Sexualities, Border Families: Applying Anzaldúan Mestizaje Theory to Bisexuality and Polyamory” Corina Carmona, “Demonizing the Female Body and Spirit: What Movies about Demonic Possession Say about the Female Body” Kendra Dority, “‘From the place one’s feet are planted’: Toward a Politics of Embodied Reading in Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé”
Session 6C CLA 1.302C Panel: In tililli, In tlapalli: History and Writing Studies in the Borderlands Moderator: Stacy Saathoff Teresa Van Hoy, “Anzaldúan Pedagogy in the History Classroom: From Glory-Story to the Nepantla-state” Elizabeth Keating, “Enacting a Critical Pedagogy of Amasamiento in the First-Year Writing Class” Yndalecio Hinojosa, “Localizing the Body for Practitioners in Writing Studies”
Session 6D CLA 1.302B Panel: “This thin edge of barbed wire”: Borders, Prisons, and Hospitality Moderator: Lisa de la Portilla Cristina Pérez, “Militarizing our Metaphor: Anzaldúan Thought in the Age of the Border Industrial Complex” Marisa Belausteguigoitia, “Borders and Walls: Anzaldúa’s Pedagogies Inside Prison” Cristina Garrigos, “Hospitality in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Work” Romana Radlwimmer and Javiera Cubillos Almendra, “¿Epistemologías contra-hegemónicas? Reflexiones a partir de dos experiencias de investigación”
Session 6E JES A216A Roundtable: Engaging Anzaldúan Theories and Methodologies in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands Moderator: Micaela Díaz-Sánchez Elisa Facio, Linda Heidenreich, and Norma Cárdenas
Session 6F JES A218A Panel: Shifting Beyond the Subject-Object Divide: Examining New Applications for Anzaldúan Theories of Embodiment and Interconnectivity Moderator: Rita Urquijo-Ruiz Kristin Alder, “Mindful Shifting: A Dialogue Between Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Practice of Conocimiento and Buddhism’s Four Establishments of Mindfulness” Sara Ishi Downing, “Epistemologies of Emotion: Explorations in Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s La Facultad and Jane Bennett’s Enchantment” Jessica Spain Sadr, “‘Because we’re all from the same speck’: Womanist Animal Praxis as Anzaldúan Theory” Tala Khanmalek, “Anzaldúan Thought and Moral Philosophy”
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Concurrent Sessions 7 Jester Center (JES) & Liberal Arts Building (CLA)
Session 7A JES A217A Panel: Educación in Nepantla Moderator: Margaret Cantú-Sánchez Margaret Cantú-Sánchez, “In/civilities of the American Classroom: A Clash between a Chicana Teacher and an Anglocentric School System” Roberto Orozco and Estee Hernández, “Fronteras múltiples y perpetúas: Conocimientos Chicana/os on Latina/o panethnicity and Eurocentric academia” Mónica Vásquez Neshyba, “Undergoing the Process of Nepantla”
Session 7B CLA 1.302D Roundtable: Casa Coatlicue: Queer Spiritual Activism, Communal Living, and Anzaldúan Theory Moderator: Susana Ramírez Susana Ramírez, Elizabeth Rodríguez, Beto De León, and Manuel Dávila
Session 7C CLA 1.302F Panel: Queering Space: From Cyberspace to the US-Mexico Borderlands Moderator: Magda García Ana Fernández de Alba, “‘Turning the Maze Inside Out’: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Poetics of Queer Worldmaking” Victoria Sánchez, “Queer Life in the Borderlands of El Paso, Texas: An Ethnography of Place” Patricia Kim-Rajal, “Tumblr, A Queer Latin@ Cybernepantla”
Session 7D CLA 1.302C Roundtable: Memory Transformation: The Writings of Three Queer Xicanas Moderator: Rita Urquijo-Ruiz Amelia Montes, ire’ne lara silva, and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
Session 7E CLA 1.302B Panel: Chicana/Latina/Indigenous Women Fleshing the Spirit in the Spiritual and Sexual Borderlands Moderator: Stacy Saathoff Irene Lara, “Anzaldúa Con Nos/otras: Writing Spirituality in the Spiritual and Sexual Borderlands” Laura Pérez, “Writing with Crooked Lines” Alicia Enciso Litschi, “Chicana in the Zendo: Love and Power on the Spiritual Path”
Session 7F JES A216A Roundtable: La Herencia de Coatlicue: A Conversation for the Initiated & those Seeking Initiation Moderator: Martha Raquel Gonzalez Martha Raquel Gonzales, Gina Aparicio, Lilia “Lili Flor” Ramírez, Rosalinda Razo, and Claudia Mercado
Session 7G JES A218A Panel: Survival and Sacrifice in Academia: Testimonios on Critical Pedagogy, Mentorship, and Activism Moderator: Christina Gutiérrez Annette Portillo, “The Classroom as a Site of Consciousness Raising, Activism, and Healing: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa’s Identity-Based Anthologies” Leticia Medina, “From Within: Chicanas (and La Familia) In The Classroom” Irene Avalos De Hoyos, “What do you mean I can’t do this?: The Struggles of a Chicana Life”
NOON – 1:30 PM Closing Plenary Roundtable JES A121A Marisa Belausteguigoitia Ruis and Smadar Lavie