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MLL Inaugural Lecture

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 67 p.m.

Zoom

Join us for the MLL Inaugural Lecture, titled “‘If there is no dance, it’s not my revolution:’ Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Demonstrations of Summer 2019,” with Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, professor of Spanish and comparative literature. Cruz-Malavé is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007) and El Primitivo Implorante: El “Sistema Poético del Mundo” de José Lezama Lima (Editions Rodopi: Colección de Teoría Literaria: Texto y Teoría, 1994).

Cruz-Malavé is also the editor of Cuentos completos de Manuel Ramos Otero (Fondo Editorial de la Casa de las Américas, 2019) and Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002).