Ralph Rodriguez, Professor of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and English at Brown University, will present his talk:
Sight Unseen?: The Formal Logics of Race in Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings
at noon today, Monday, April 22nd, in Austin/CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Lunch will be provided.
In "Sight Unseen?" Dr. Rodriguez examines the formal logics of racial representation in Adrian Tomine's graphic novel Shortcomings. The talk will be both a methodological reflection on reading practices and a formal exercise in applied readings of race.
Dr. Rodriguez is the author of Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity. You can read more about his research and interests, which include Latina/o literature and culture, queer theory, detective fiction, film, aesthetics, graphic novels, cultural theory, and critical race studies, here: http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Ralph_Rodriguez
Sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association. Grad students and faculty of all departments encouraged to attend.
For more information, contact: Christiana Salah at christiana.salah@uconn.edu