May 5: Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Rio de la Plata
Department: Latin American Studies
Date and Time: May 5, 2015 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
Event Details
The Department of History
Virtual Lecture Series
Presents
Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata
By
Professor William G. Acree
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Washington University, Saint Louis.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
4:00 – 5:30pm
Humanities Gateway 1010
William G. Acree is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of Washington University, Saint Louis. He is the author of Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780-1910 (Vanderbilt University Press, 2011) and editor Eduardo Gutierrez’s, The Gaucho Juan Moreira. (Translated by John C. Chasteen) (Hackett, 2014). He has coedited Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations (Vanderbilt, 2009). He has written extensively on print culture and nationalism in nineteenth century Latin America.
For additional information, please see the attached flyer or contact the Department of History at (949) 824-6521 or history@uci.edu