Category: Literature

Karla Holloway: “From Fact to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters”

Pictured is Karla Holloway.

Ford Lecture Hall JSMA UO campus Lorwin Lectureship Series Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English at Duke University, will visit the University of Oregon campus March 3 – 5. Her featured lecture is titled “From Fact…

CLLAS Poetry Slam & Teach-In with Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A teach-in and poetry slam on the UO campus CLLAS Teach-In: Language and Poetry as Resistance, October 9, 10am-11am, Knight Library Browsing Room CLLAS Latinx Heritage Month Poetry Slam by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, October 9, 4pm-5pm, 240C McKenzie Hall Melissa Lozada-Oliva is…

Ana Lara receives a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship in fiction

Pictured is Ana-Maurine Lara.

Recipients of the 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship include UO assistant professor Ana-Maurine Lara, a CSWS faculty affiliate, in the category of fiction. Oregon Literary Arts said their out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications they received, and selected…

NALAC awards artist grant to Ernesto Martínez

Pictured is Ernesto Martinez.

February 20, 2019—Ernesto Javier Martínez has been awarded a $5,000 NFA Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). An associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, Martínez is also a member of the…

New children’s book, movie put a song in professor’s heart

Editor’s note: CSWS is one of several UO units that awarded research funds to Prof. Ernesto Javier Martínez in support of this creative work. A new book and film have a University of Oregon professor singing a happy tune. December…

Producing Literature & Film for Queer Latinx Youth

EMU—145 Crater Lake South Room A Film Discussion and Book Celebration Join Ernesto Martínez and others for a discussion of the groundbreaking new bilingual queer Latinx children’s book When We Love Someone We Sing To Them, and get a “sneak peak” of our new…