REBEL presentation- American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2012
Time: Sat, Nov 17 – 4:00pm – 5:45pm
Building/Room: Puerto Rico Convention Center / 104C
Rebel: A Woman, A Myth, and The Politics of National Memory
Film showing (approx. 70 minutes) followed by Q &A with the film’s writer and director, María Agui Carter, and three scholars involved in the project. Panelists will discuss the film and LJV’s significance for studying slavery, empire and the Americas.
Jesse Alemán
Dr. Jesse Alemán is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century American and Chicano/a literatures. His scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century American and US Latino/a literary histories and national identities. He has over a dozen articles in journals and edited collections. In 2003, he edited and reprinted Loreta Janeta Velazquez’s 1876 autobiography, The Woman in Battle, and in 2007, he co-edited Empire and the Literature of Sensation, an anthology of nineteenth-century popular literature about U.S. imperialism in Mexico and Cuba. He is working on “Wars of Rebellion,” a book that places nineteenth-century Hispanic writings about the U.S. Civil War within a context that considers related wars of rebellion in Cuba and Mexico. An essay version of his book project will be appearing in the upcoming issue of American Literary History.
Renee M. Sentilles
Renee Sentilles is an associate professor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches classes on nineteenth-century cultural history, American women, gender and sexuality, and children and childhood. She earned her PhD through the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. She is author of Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Cambridge, 2003), and currently writing American Tomboys, 1850-1920 (Umass, forthcoming 2014).
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol (Moderator)
Historian Virginia Sánchez Korrol is author of From Colonial to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City (1994), coauthor with Marysa Navarro of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (1999); and coeditor with Vicki L. Ruiz of Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community (2005) and the award-winning Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006). She consults on museum exhibits, television documentaries, and educational projects, and serves on the boards of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage and the New York Academy of History. She directs Latinas in History, an interactive project for pre-collegiate students, and researches New York Latinas in the Antillean independence movement.