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April 16, 2008
Rainbow Center, Student Union Room 403
12:00-2:00 pm
Prof. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (Assistant Professor, U of Michigan--Ann Arbor, American Studies, Spanish, and US Latin@ Studies) will be visiting UCONN to deliver an "Out to Lunch" talk at the Rainbow Center on " The Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora."
In Culture, Representation, and the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora (Forthcoming U of Minnesota P, 2008), he analyzes the intersection of migration and homosexuality as they appear in Puerto Rican cultural productions (literature, film, performance, dance, photography, clothing, and parades) and in political activism both on the island and in the United States. He has published articles and literary pieces in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States, including contributions in Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities (New York and London: Garland, 1999); Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood (New York and London: NYU, 1999); and Bésame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction (New York: Painted Leaf, 1999). Currently, he is at work on a second project on Latin/o American Queer Performance, focusing on performance in Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Peru, Puerto Rico, and the United States. In addition, Prof. La Fountain-Stokes serves on the board of directors of the CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and on the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Literatures of People of Color of the United States and Canada.
Larry is a great speaker and one of the most important and creative queer studies scholars in the US. He has held teaching positions at Ohio State and Rutgers, and is a graduate of Harvard.
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