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The Consumption and Rejection of Blackness in Contemporary Spain

Jeffrey K. Coleman ’08, Assistant Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukie Wisconsin Lecture: “The Consumption and Rejection of Blackness in Contemporary Spain” In Conjunction with the Department of Spanish and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Part of the Afro/Black Europe Film and Lecture Series

Thursday, May 10, 2018
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Room 002, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Films, Lectures & Seminars

 AFRO/BLACK EUROPE FILM & LECTURE SERIES        In conjunction with AAAS 64 - Afro/Black Europe

Biography: Jeffrey K. Coleman, PhD, specializes in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish and Catalan theatre. He graduated from Dartmouth in 2008 with a major in Spanish (writing an honor thesis under the direction of Professor Israel Reyes) and a minor in Chinese. He is also a Dartmouth MMUF Fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of Chicago in 2014 where his research focused on the theatrical portrayals of the immigration question in the years surrounding the 2004 Spanish national election. He has published several articles on immigration, race, and national identity in the Spanish context in the Journal of Catalan Studies, Symposium, Estreno and others. In addition, in 2015 he was awarded the Duke University SITPA (Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement) Fellowship and in 2017 was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. His current research project is a book entitled Shockwaves: Immigration and its Racial Reverberations on the Contemporary Spanish Stage, which explores how the intersections of race and immigration manifest in Spanish theatre from 1992-present. His next book project explores the manners by which Blackness is simultaneously consumed and rejected by Spanish popular culture and society.

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For more information, contact:
Lisa Meehan

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.