On Monday, February 22, at 12:00pm (St Mary’s Hall, Multipurpose Room), Professor Licia Fiol-Matta will give a lecture titled, “The Times of Your (Colonial) Life: Sound, Gender, and the Politics of Voice in Puerto Rico, 1935-1995.”
Licia Fiol-Matta (Ph.D. Yale University) is Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. She is the author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and of scholarly articles on gender, race, and sexuality. Her current research focuses on pop music and media; her second book, forthcoming from Duke University Press, is tentatively entitled The Politics of Voice: Gender and Music Culture in Puerto Rico. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of Social Text and co-editor of the series “New Directions in Latino American Cultures and New Concepts in Latino American Cultures” at Palgrave/Macmillan.
