OMIA Collaborative Symposia Series
Engendering Race & Class in a Globalizing World: Transnational Perspectives

“Translocas: Migration, Homosexuality, and Transvestism in Recent Puerto Rican Performance”
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Faculty & Student Focus Group discussion
Wednesday April 16, 2008
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
Location: The Women’s Center, Student Union Room 421

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Assistant Professor of American Cultures and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he specializes in Latina/o studies; Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; lesbian, gay, and queer studies; and theater and performance. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and received his BA from Harvard College (1991) and MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1999). He is the author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and of a book of short stories called Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (forthcoming, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, Arizona). He was one of the co-editors of a special issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies on Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities (19, no. 1 [Spring 2007]).

Dr. La Fountain-Stokes is the third of three speakers in this symposia series for Spring 2008. Additional speakers will be on campus in February & March - please visit www.womens.studies.uconn.edu for more information.
Co-Sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Institute for African-American Studies, Institute for Asian-American Studies, Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Women’s Studies Program & the Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs