Symposium on the Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros

Schedule of Events Symposium on the Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros April 29, 2017 Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library

10-10:30 Coffee and Pan Dulce Casa Maria, San Marcos, Texas

10:30-11:00 Celebrating Sandra Cisneros Welcome to Texas State Dr. Mike Hennessey, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University “‘I'm Lightbeam / No Stopping Me’: The Political Impact of the Personal Revolution” Laurie Ann Guerrero, 2016 Poet Laureate, state of Texas

11:00-12:45 Morning Session: Career and Life "Burning Down the Master's House: Sandra Cisneros's Chicana Feminisms" Dr. Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio "Everyday Archives: Cisneros's Aesthetics of Memory” Dr. Bill Johnson González, Assistant Professor, DePaul University “’Love the only way I know how: The Philosophy of Love in the Work of Sandra Cisneros” Dr. Belinda Linn Rincón, Assistant Professor, John Jay College, City University of New York Comments Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, Director and Chief Curator, Art Museum and Visual Arts Program, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

12:45-1:45 Lunch Break

1:45-2:00 “Por Amor a Perros y Escritores: For the Love of Dogs and Writers” Macarena Hernandez, Baylor University, the Fred Hartman Distinguished Professor of Journalism

2:00-3:45 Afternoon Session: Re-Reading the Work “Not a Novel: Reading The House on Mango Street as a Prose Poem Cycle” Dr. Paula M.L. Moya, Professor, Stanford University “Chicana in The Windy City: Locating Sandra Cisneros within a Chicago Literary Tradition” Dr. Olga L. Herrera, Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas Comments “Sandra Cisneros’s Wicked Wicked Ways,” Dr. John Alba Cutler, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Comments: Dr. Norma Alarcón, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

3:45-4:15 Coffee Break with Cookies

4:15-4:30 Presentation of Archival Research by Texas State University Undergraduates

4:30-4:45 Concluding Remarks Dr. Dan Lochman, Chair of the English Department, Texas State University

Dr. Geneva M. Gano, Assistant Professor of English, Texas State University

8:00-10:30 Off Site: Poetry Reading and Celebration of Cisneros at La Botanica, San Antonio

Sunday, April 30

2:00 pm Wittliff Collections Celebration of the Opening of the Sandra Cisneros Archives; Sandra Cisneros in conversation with John Phillip Santos

Please Direct Inquiries to: Claudia D. Cardona ([email protected]) Dr. Geneva M. Gano ([email protected])