Borders and Identities: Sex Workers in Tijuana

April 18, 2008
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Ferris Lounge

Global Studies invites Debra Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is an author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Talking Back: Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (l992), Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction (l998), and (cowritten with María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) Border Women: Writing from La Frontera (2002). Her most recent book, Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature, (SUNY, 2004) focuses on Spanish-language US writers. Debra will speak about questions of gender and sexuality through the lives of sex workers in Tijuana.

For more information contact Robin Ragan.

 

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