Date: April 3, 2024
Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm (Arizona Time)
Location: World of Words, EDUC 453
 

Please join us for salón and discussion by Susan Briante on April 3, 2024 from 5:30-6:30pm in the Worlds of Words, EDUC 453, planned in conjunction with the Spring 2024 graduate seminar, SCCT 510: Borderlands Lab: Pedagogy, Poetics and Practice led by Professors Carol Brochin and Sandra Soto. This event is sponsored by the Graduate Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory, and is open to students, staff, faculty, and community members. 

Susan Briante will read from her newest book, Defacing the Monument (Noemi Press, 2020), a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. 

Susan Briante is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She serves as the co-coordinator of the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program. The Southwest Field Studies in Writing program amplifies voices and expands dialogue on issues related to the border by sending three Creative Writing MFA students to engage in reciprocal research and write during a two-week residency in Patagonia, AZ, on projects unique to the borderlands.