The Eighth Annual Helena Maria Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o/x Literature Featuring Ana Castillo – Massacre of the Dreamers

The Eighth Annual Helena María Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o/x Literature welcomes the distinguished and celebrated artist, poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, translator, and short story writer Ana Castillo to CSU Long Beach. Dr. Castillo has contributed to a long list of periodicals, online venues, and national magazines, including More and the Sunday New York Times. Dr. Castillo’s writings have been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations and publications. Among her other awards, she is the recipient of a Carl Sandburg Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. Her books So Far From God and Loverboys were included on Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District’s list of banned books. In June 2015, Dr. Castillo received the Lifetime Achievement Award in literature by Latina 50 Plus, a non-partisan non-profit based in The Bronx, New York. For more information on Ana Castillo, please visit her website.

Reading: 4:00-6:00pm, University Theatre (UTC-108)
Reception: 6:30-8:00pm, The Anatol Center (AS-119)

Co-Sponsored by the Transnational Feminist Solidarities Collective and the CLA Thematic Initiative, the Arts Council for Long Beach, CLA Scholarly Intersections, the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.