Dec 7, 2020
For the last episode of the season, La Profesora is revisiting the Writing Series we are doing all year. This time, she talks with Dr. Davíd Martínez about writing beyond publications and metrics for tenure and promotion. Writing should be about community, about action, and about praxis.
Our Poet-in-Residence and in...
Nov 23, 2020
Even before the protests and outrage that stemmed from the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, there have been discussions about anti-Blackness in Latinx/a/o communities. This episode focuses on addressing anti-Blackness by centering Blackness in our comunidad through the tenets of Black-imiento...
Nov 2, 2020
We’re doing a different take on what you have probably been hearing and reading as folx push through the final campaigns for Election Day 2020. Not to say that our current political climate is beautiful, but that our engagement in our local communities, of fighting for justice for our communities is beautiful in...
Oct 20, 2020
We kick off our Writing Series with a focus on writing academic books!
La Profesora talks with Dra. Lorgia Garcia-Peña about her journey in writing her first award-winning book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke University Press, 2016) and how she carried the idea for her...
Oct 5, 2020
The term "Latinx" is still in the process of becoming. La Profesora talks with Dr. Cristobal Salinas, who has studied the evolution of the term within higher education contexts and introduces additional terms that may (better) address the experiences of gente within the Latinx/a/o diaspora.
And she talks with Dra. Sara...