The Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures will host a roundtable at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago. This blog was created to supplement the roundtable and we welcome comments, whether you will be attending or not. Below we have included the program information and following that an extended description of the topic for comment.
796. A New Discipline? Multidisciplinarity and Latin American Colonial Literatures
Sunday, 12 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Michigan A, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Colonial Latin American Literatures
Presiding: Anna H. More, Universidade de Brasilia
Speakers: Galen Brokaw, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York; Ivonne del Valle, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Kristin Huffine, Northern Illinois Univ.; Gonzalo Lamana, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Yolanda M. Martínez–San Miguel, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick; Nicolás Wey-Gómez, California Inst. of Tech.
Session Description:
Since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars in Latin American colonial studies has combined methodologies to approach texts and material objects from angles that most accord with their conditions of production and circulation. What kind of models can be incorporated into current departmental structures to adapt to these new methodological configurations and multidisciplinary dialogues?
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