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MEDIA CONTACT: Kate Perry katie.perry@rochester.edu
585.275.2671
October 30, 2007
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Gamble Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester's River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
Cornell Professor Debra A. Castillo will examine several films from Spanish America and the Philippines in her lecture "American (Visa) Dreams." Her discussion will focus on the humorous or dramatic ways in which these films represent the difficulties of obtaining a U.S. visa and the encounters between immigrants and the visa system. Castillo will also explore cultural identity and heterosexual masculinity, and the resolution of the visa dilemma through heterosexual pairing.
Castillo is a professor of Hispanic studies, Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is also the author, editor, and translator of various books, including her most recent, Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature (SUNY, 2004).
This lecture is one in a series, "Reimagining the Americas: Cultures, Identities, Formations and Transformations," which is cosponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Political Science. The series is a part of the Humanities Project, an initiative by the University of Rochester emphasizing the influence and contributions of the humanities to academic and civil life.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the Web site at www.rochester.edu/College/humanities or e-mail humanities@rochester.edu.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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