2018–19 Hess Scholar in Residence José David Saldívar
2018–19 Hess Scholar in Residence José David Saldívar
José David Saldívar is Leon Sloss, Jr. Professor in Comparative Literature & Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. He is a scholar of late postcontemporary culture, especially the minoritized literatures of the United States, Latin America, and the transamerican hemisphere, and of border narrative and poetics from the 16th century to the present. He currently serves as the faculty director for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Stanford. He is the author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke University Press, 1991), Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (University of California Press, 1997), and Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico (Duke University Press, 2012), which was translated by Mónica González García (La Habana, Cuba: Fondo Casa de las Américas and Fondo Potificia Universidad Católica De Valparaíso, 2018).
Monday, March 18
Immigrants of New York City
2:15–3:30 p.m., State Room, fifth floor, Student Center
Tuesday, March 19
What Else Can You Do With a Humanities Degree?
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m., Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, Brooklyn College Library
Decolonizing Education
3:40–4:55 p.m., Occidental Room, fifth floor, Student Center
Wednesday, March 20
Public Art Intervention
2:15–3:30 p.m., 101 Whitehead Hall
Decolonizing the Imagination: Creatively Writing Sovereign States of Mind
3:40–4:55 p.m., Jefferson-Williams Room, fourth floor, Student Center
Thursday, March 21
Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture
Writing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Tearing Down the Wall
5–6:20 p.m., Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, Brooklyn College Library
- RSVP by March 11
Friday, March 22
Office Hours with Professor Saldívar
Informal, 15–20 minute meetings between the Hess Scholar and Brooklyn College faculty and students. To schedule a meeting, send an e-mail with your name, affiliation, and topic you would like to address.
1–4 p.m., Wolfe Institute Office, 2231 Boylan Hall
Additional Information
All are welcome. Present Brooklyn College ID upon entry. RSVP if you would like to bring a class to an event, or if you are not affiliated with the college.
