Edgar Garcia, March 25th @ 5pm
Another much-anticipated event to announce — join us, the Americanist colloquium, and the Antiracist Pedagogy Group for a conversation with Edgar Garcia about literary intellectual traditions and their attendant pedagogical practices. March 25th, 5pm. https://yale.zoom.us/j/99108542203
Edgar Garcia (PhD Yale English) is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas, primarily during the 20th and 21stcenturies. Winner of the 2018 Fence Modern Poets Series award, his collection of poems and anthropological essays on hemispheric migrations—Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (which also received an award from the Illinois Arts Council)—was published by Fence Books in 2019. His book of scholarship on the contemporary life of the sign-systems of the Americas—Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictographs, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu—was published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2019 (a selection of this work received honors from the Modern Language Association in 2020). He also co-edited an anthology on the transnational contexts of American literature, American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia University Press, 2016). He regularly collaborates with visual artists. One such collaboration—with Eamon Ore-Giron, titled Infinite Regress—was published by Bom Dia Books in Berlin in February 2020. Currently, he is working on two books: one is a rethinking of risk and migration in humanistic frameworks (as opposed to statistical ones; an article-length portion of this project will appear in the November 2020 issue of Modern Philology); the other is a collection of essays on the K’iche’ Maya story of creation the Popol Vuh. Garcia is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.
