Book Talks: Presentations of Recent Monographs

An afternoon of author spotlights featuring four book presentations of recently published monographs by Spanish writer, philologist, performance creator, and translator Violeta Gil; Madrid-based Chilean curator and art historian Francisco Godoy Vega; visual cultural theorist Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián from Durham University; and early modern Iberianist scholar Nicholas R. Jones from Yale University. Gil authored Llego con tres heridas (Penguin/Caballo de Troya, 2022); Godoy Vega wrote Usos y costumbres de los blancos (OnA Ediciones, 2023); Hernández Adrián crafted On Tropical Grounds: Avant-Garde and Surrealism in the Insular Atlantic (Polity, 2024); and Jones penned Cervantine Blackness (2024). |

A reception with light refreshments will follow the presentations.

Sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; Department of African & African American Studies; Department of Romance Studies; Left of Black; Office of Global Affairs; The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund; Trinity College Dean of Humanities and Arts; Trinity College Dean's Office.