In addition to her public lecture, scheduled for April 16, UVA students and faculty are invited to attend this seminar by guest scholar, Esther Whitfield, which will take place during a class meeting of Introduction to Environmental Humanities.
Those interested in attending should email Dannah Persinger (nup4zr@uvawise.edu) to request the seminar materials at least 24 hours prior to the event.
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Esther Whitfield is Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She is author of A New No-Man’s Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba (2024) and Cuban Currency: The Dollar and ‘Special Period’ Fiction (2008); translator, with Katerina González Seligmann, of José Ramón Sánchez’s poetry collection The Black Arrow (2023); and co-editor with Anke Birkenmaier of Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mapping of the City After 1989 and with Jacqueline Loss of New Short Fiction from Cuba (2007).