A Twenty-First Century Mapping of Cuba’s Unfinished Literary History

About the event

Professor Vicky Unruh will discuss her pathbreaking co-edited volume (along with Professor Jacqueline Loss of University of Connecticut), 'The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature', forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. The discussion will be introduced by Dr Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Latin American Studies and Visual Culture, University of Edinburgh).

This event is a Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American Studies (SPLAS) DELC Research Seminar Series contribution, and is co-sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies (CCLAS) and the Havana Glasgow Film Festival (HGFF).

Coffee and nibbles will be served.

About the speaker

Vicky Unruh, Professor Emerita University of Kansas, specialises in Latin American narrative, theatre, and literary-intellectual culture. She is the author of 'Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters (University of California Press), 'Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America' (University of Texas Press), and numerous critical essays; she is also co-editor (with politician Michael Lazzara) of 'Telling Ruins in Latin America' (Palgrave Macmillan) and, with Professor Jacqueline Loss, of 'The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature' (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Her current project is a monograph on Cuban literary and film cartographies of everyday life from 1989-2015. She is the recipient of multiple research, teaching, and mentoring awards.

How to attend

This event is free to attend, and open to all. No registration is necessary - just come along!

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