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Border Collective Meeting

Monday, October 21, 2013
12:00 AM
3512 Haven Hall

Feat. Guest Speaker Laura G. Gutiérrez

The Border Collective would like to invite you to join the Border Collective  tomorrow where we will feature guest speaker  Dr. Laura G. Gutiérrez author of the book Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage. Laura G. Gutiérrez (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a performance and visual culture studies scholar. Her primary research and teaching areas of interest are Latin American, Mexican and Latina/o embodied practices, gender and sexuality, and questions of nation, modernity and the transnational. She holds affiliate appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

According to UTPress:

Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage is An examination of the intersection of public discourses on sexualities with recent political, economic, and social shifts in the national context of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in the United States.