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FIRST FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA LECTURE OF SPRING 2021:

Noël Valis, Professor of Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, to present “Lorca, Gay Icon”

Dr. Valis has recently finished Lorca After Life, a study of the poet-playwright’s meaning as a cultural icon and modern celebrity, now in press with Yale University Press. Her previous works include: The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain (Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2003); Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative; many other books and editions in Spanish and English, as well as creative writing.

A Guggenheim Fellow (2006-07), she is a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy and a full member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

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Moderated by Elizabeth Scarlett, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo.

The sponsorship of the Zengierski Family Lectures in Spanish Literature and Culture, and of Professor Justin A. Read, is gratefully acknowledged.

The Lorca Lectures will offer virtual presentations by four leading experts on the work, life, and legacy of Federico García Lorca and his contemporaries in the Hispanic avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Each event will consist of a talk of about 40 minutes will be followed by discussion.

Zengierski Family Lectures in Spanish Literature and Culture, Spring 2021

This four-part series of presentations examines various aspects of the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), his contemporaries, and his legacy. Born in the Spanish province of Granada, Lorca combines a championing of the socially marginalized, avant-garde experimentation, and reworking of Andalusian and Roma traditions such as flamenco. Assassinated near the start of the Spanish Civil War, his remains have never been found, putting him at the center of unresolved historical memory issues.

• Thursday, March 4, 1:00-2:00 pm EST. “Lorca, Gay Icon,” Prof. Noël Valis, Yale University
• Thursday, March 25, 2021, 1:00-2:00 pm EST. “La exhumación de Federico García Lorca: la memoria como exceso en la España del siglo XXI,”  Prof. Carmen Moreno-Nuño, University of Kentucky
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• Thursday, April 8, 1:00-2:00 pm EST. “The French Connection: Federico García Lorca and Germaine Montero,” Prof. Jonathan Mayhew, University of Kansas
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• Thursday, April 29, 1:00-2:00 pm EST. “Poetic Hallucinations: The Panero Family and Spain in the 20th Century,” Aaron Shulman, journalist and author of ‘The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War’ (Ecco, 2019)
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