Guest Lecture Marion Rohrleitner (University of Texas at El Paso)

"Queering the Borderlands: Lesbian Cowgirls, Migrant Mariposas, and Disobedient Nuns in Contemporary Chicanx Fiction"

Marion Rohrleitner is Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches 20^th and 21^st 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 current book project, Transnational Latinidades, studies the production, translation, and marketing of Latina/o literature outside of the United States, in the European Union and in Canada.

The event is free and open to the public.

This lecture is organized by the Department of American Studies.

Department of American Studies Graz
Institut für Amerikanistik
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A-8010 Graz
Tel. +43/316/380-2465
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