Language and Social Justice: Cristina Rivera Garza and Translocal Academic Activism

• In Event: Transnational Solidarity: Challenges of Intersectionality and Activism in the Latin American/US borderlands

Abstract

Cristina Rivera Garza is a professor, who writes on language as a social justice issue. This posture is central to my analysis of her essayistic corpus, where is she also critical of her role as an academic and a migrant in the U.S. In 2016, Rivera Garza left her position as Professor of Writing at UC San Diego to start the first national PhD program in Creative Writing in Spanish in the United States at the University of Houston, Texas, to increase the visibility of Spanish speaking migrants and join solidarity movements with non-English speakers across the U.S.

Presenter

• Thania Munoz Davaslioglu, University of Maryland Baltimore County