Maravilloso Mario

We are pleased to inform that writer MARIO BELLATÍN will be our KEYNOTE SPEAKER at April's conference!

The Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín (born July 23, 1960, Mexico City, Mexico) has emerged in recent years as one of the leading voices in Latin American experimental fiction. As an active member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores since 1999, some of his most important works are Flores (2000, for which he won the Xavier Villaurrutia 2001 award), Shiki Nagaoka: una actriz de ficción (2001), La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán (2001),  Jacobo el mutante (2002), Perros héroes (2003), Underwood modelo portátil 1915 (2005) y Biografía ilustrada de Mishima (2009). In 2001 he founded the Escuela Dinámica de Escritores, which he still directs today. In 2002 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation made him a fellow for his innovative work in the field of written fiction, and in 2008 he was awarded the National Book Award, sponsored by the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, for his novel El gran vidrio (2007).  

¡Bienvenidos!

Welcome to the 5th Annual UCR Graduate Student Conference!!

The graduate students of the department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside invite individual papers or panels for our conference "Dialogando con la literatura: convergencia mediática y su expresión escrita," being held on Saturday, April 16, 2011.

The impact of technology and new media in everyday life is changing the ways in which literary expression is being produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and  the Iberian Peninsula. However, the influence of interdisciplinary arts is not a novelty as we can track the presence of musical aesthetics and rhythm in classical poetry and the novel. In addition, technical developments in plastic arts, such as photography, clearly reshaped some of the most important realist works. Nowadays, technology has abandoned the private realm and can be found in public speech as well as day to day practices, changing our environment and ecology. There are various discourses that examine how these technologies are being reflected in art creating intimate expressions in writing. Part of these discourses include, but are not limited to:

Music influence in written structures

Plastic arts reshaped into literary aesthetics

Film and other visual media embedded in the written discourse

E-writing and hypertext novel 

Mediatic and transmedia productions 

We encourage panels or papers related to linguistics, literature, transatlantic studies, performance studies, film and video, Chicano/a studies, ethnic and indigenous studies, religious studies, gender studies and queer studies. Papers may use an interdisciplinary approach to the arts, issues of gender, and conceptions of identity. Presentations can be in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Abstracts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx/ .doc) and should not exceed 250 words in length. The e-mail. should include the title of the presentation, the name and institutional affiliation, and phone number. Presentations should not exceed eight pages (20 minutes in reading length).

Abstracts and questions may be sent by e-mail to:
ucrhispanics@gmail.com

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, February 11, 2011

Committee members: Enrique Salas Durazo (President), Luz María Landeros, Alexandra Saum-Pascual, Karen Pérez, Noé Ruvalcaba, Suria Ceja and Brian Fox (Treasures)