2018–19

2018–19 Hess Scholar in Residence José David Saldívar

• Recorded Events with José David Saldívar

José David Saldívar is Leon Sloss, Jr. Professor in Comparative Literature & Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. He is a scholar of late postcontemporary culture, especially the minoritized literatures of the United States, Latin America, and the transamerican hemisphere, and of border narrative and poetics from the 16th century to the present. He currently serves as the faculty director for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Stanford. He is the author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke University Press, 1991), Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (University of California Press, 1997), and Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico (Duke University Press, 2012), which was translated by Mónica González García (La Habana, Cuba: Fondo Casa de las Américas and Fondo Potificia Universidad Católica De Valparaíso, 2018).

Monday, March 18

Immigrants of New York City

2:15–3:30 p.m., State Room, fifth floor, Student Center

Tuesday, March 19

What Else Can You Do With a Humanities Degree?

11 a.m.–12:15 p.m., Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, Brooklyn College Library

Decolonizing Education

3:40–4:55 p.m., Occidental Room, fifth floor, Student Center

Wednesday, March 20

Public Art Intervention

2:15–3:30 p.m., 101 Whitehead Hall

Decolonizing the Imagination: Creatively Writing Sovereign States of Mind

3:40–4:55 p.m., Jefferson-Williams Room, fourth floor, Student Center

Thursday, March 21

Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Writing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Tearing Down the Wall

5–6:20 p.m., Woody Tanger Auditorium, first floor, Brooklyn College Library

Friday, March 22

Office Hours with Professor Saldívar

Informal, 15-20–minute meetings between the Hess Scholar and Brooklyn College faculty and students.
1–4 p.m., Wolfe Institute Office, 2231 Boylan Hall

Additional Information

All are welcome. Present Brooklyn College ID upon entry.