Event Details - Interrogating Latinidad: A Conversation with Naida Saavedra and Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

Dr. Naida Saavedra is a fiction writer interested in telling stories about people and their relationship with chaotic cities. As a scholar, her research focuses on issues of identity, migration, and social media in contemporary Latinx Literature. She is author of Vos no viste que no lloré por vos (2009), Última inocencia (2013), Hábitat (2013) Vestier y otras miserias (2015) y Desordenadas (2019). In 2020, she published #NewLatinoBoom: Cartografía de la narrativa en español de EE.UU., a study of a 21st-century literary movement in Spanish in the USA.

Dr. Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón is a writer as well as a scholar of 19th-century Latin American intellectual history and 20th-century Mexican and Caribbean literatures. He is author of the novels Los días hábiles (2020), Dicen que los dormidos (2014), and Palacio (2011), and the short-story collection Preciosos perdedores (2019). In 2017 he was selected as part of the Hay Festival’s Bogota 39, a list of the 39 best Latin American writers under 39. His scholarly monograph, Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence, will be published in June 2023 by Vanderbilt University Press.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs, The Racial Justice Initiative at Skidmore College, the Department of World Languages and Literatures, and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLS) Program.