Speaker: Álvaro Enrigue

About the Speakers

Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novels include Now I Surrender and You Dreamed of Empires. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.

Alejandra Vela Martínez is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her current book manuscript, Cursi: A Genealogy of Femininity in Twentieth-Century Mexico, forthcoming in Vanderbilt University Press’s Critical Mexican Studies series, examines feminized and devalued aesthetic forms in Mexican literature, journalism, and popular culture from the 1930s through the 1980s. Professor Vela Martínez's research questions the Latin American cultural field by looking at how different “counter-archives”, as she calls them in her current book project, illuminate literary and cultural history involving feminine writers and materials.

About the Series: Writers Speak

Writers Speak, convened by Duncan White, Director of Strategy and Programs for the Arts and Humanities, brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.