Presented by Natalie Catasús, Comparative Literature, Emory University
and
Imagining Sabor: Flavor, Race, Gender, and Sensible Life in Contemporary Cuba
Presented by Mónica B. Ocasio Vega, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 2 p.m. (EDT)
A presentation of the 2021–2022 cohort of Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellows as they highlight and discuss their research using materials and resources from the Cuban Heritage Collection.
Launched in 2010 with a generous grant from The Goizueta Foundation, the
Goizueta Graduate Fellowship Program supports doctoral research at the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection with the goal of engaging emerging scholars with the materials available in the Cuban Heritage Collection, contributing to the larger body of scholarship in Cuban and Cuban diaspora studies.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Natalie Catasús
Comparative Literature, Emory University
Natalie Catasús is a Ph.D. candidate in Emory University’s Comparative Literature Department, where she specializes in Caribbean literature and visual culture with an emphasis on Cuba and its diaspora. She holds an M.A. in visual and critical studies and an M.F.A. in writing from California College of the Arts and received her B.A. in literature and Spanish from New College of Florida. Her current research studies issues, such as migrant death at sea and Cuban exceptionalism, in order to understand how Caribbean subjects negotiate needs for difference and movement with desires for recognition and belonging.
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Mónica B. Ocasio Vega
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin
Mónica B. Ocasio Vega is a Ph.D. candidate in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin, where she researches the culinary cultures of Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico as imaginaries for a specific, sensible life. Her research focuses on the concept of sabor and how it allows us to understand alternative modes of being and doing in the Caribbean. She is a Puerto Rican educator and scholar who is committed to broadening the conversation about food and racial justice in colonial and neocolonial settings.
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