Sanctuary Movements: Latinx Narratives of Migration, Refuge and Asylum

Marion Rohrleitner is Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches 20th and 21st century American literatures with an emphasis on Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Caribbean diasporic fiction. She is the co-editor of Dialogues Across Diasporas: Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation (Lexington, 2013), and her scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly, Antipodas, Callaloo, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Latino Studies, and MELUS. Her latest book project, Transnational Latinidades, studies the production, translation, and marketing of Latina/o literature outside of the United States, in the European Union and Canada.

The event is free and open to the public.

This lecture is organized by the Department of American Studies in cooperation with the Office of International Relations.