According to the United Nations, one in 110 people worldwide is currently a refugee. In the face of this global humanitarian crisis, refugee writers offer powerful testimony about the experience of displacement. Learn more about refugee literature in a free lecture offered by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
"Refugee Literature: Writing and Refugitude" will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, by Lauren Gantz, assistant professor in the UW-Stevens Point Department of English. Held in the Pinery Room of the Portage County Public Library, this is the sixth talk in the eight-part 2019-2020 Community Lecture Series. The public may attend free of charge.
"This talk will examine how multiple authors negotiate their own refugee status and work to imagine futures for their communities," said Gantz.
Gantz earned her bachelor's degree from Emporia State University, master's from Ohio State University and doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in American ethnic literatures, with additional interests in cultural memory, women's and gender studies and graphic novels. Her current research focuses on the ways in which Caribbean writers appropriate, create or interrogate archives to manage historical trauma and national identity.
For more information on the Community Lecture Series, visit www.uwsp.edu/cols/lectureseries or email stappa@uwsp.edu.
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