Sembe Presents at NeMLA
At the recent conference of the Northeast Modern Lnaguage Association (NeMLA), Karina Sembe, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented two papers and also chaired a discussion panel.
Karina’s two papers were titled:
- “Violence, Masculinity, & Vernacular Empiricism in Cidade de Deus”
- “The Natural Man & the New Negro: Reclaiming/Erasing the Subhuman in Modernist Manifestos”
Karina tells us of her experience at the conference:
“All three sessions went great! I especially appreciated the lively discussion after the panel I chaired, “Black Experience in the White Gaze: Framing Afro-Latin American Identity in XIX-XX Centuries”, where we discussed the types of mediation at work in constructing Hemispheric blackness and how they affect personal and collective diasporic identities. I was excited to see all the brilliant proposals from professors, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral fellows all over the country that come from a wide range of disciplines and yet tackle very similar issues, largely in quite nuanced ways.”