Tuesday 26 February 2013

American Borders Seminar Series: Maria Cristina Fumagalli


Tomorrow (Wednesday 27th) we are hosting Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli (University of Essex) who will be giving a talk entitled, "On the Edge: the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic". This event will be held at 4pm in Arts 1.16. All welcome!


Maria is the author of Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze (2009), The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (2001) and the editor of Agenda: Special Issue on Derek Walcott (2002-2003). She is co-editor of Surveying the American Tropics (in press) and The Cross-dressed Caribbean: Sexual Politics after Binarism (under review) and is currently working on a new monograph entitled On the Edge: A Literary History of the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

For a full details of the American Borders Seminar Series click here.

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