ALT Congratulatory note, plus poster for "What Goes Around" which shows a bloody hand holding up a boomerang against a black background.

ALT Text: Writing, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series with Dr. Natalia Aguilar Vasquez (Assistant Professor of the Literature of the Americas, Emerson College). 'On Love, Loss and Venn Diagrams: Visual Experiment in Empty Set (2018)': This lecture discusses the bridges between literature and the visual arts in contemporary Latin American fiction by zooming into Verónica Gerber Bicceci's first novel Empty Set, published in 2018 by Coffee House Press. With a response by: Dr. Alejandra Vela Martinez (Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University). Held on Wednesday, March 20th 6:00-7:30pm at the Emerson Contemporary Media Arts Gallery, 25 Avery Street, Boston, MA 02111.

ALT Text: Writing, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series with Dr. Takeo Rivera (Assistant Professor of English, Boston University). 'Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity': There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the "model minority." While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered subjectivities in relation to what Rivera terms "model minority masochism." Held on Monday, April 8th 1:00-2:30pm in Room 206 at 172 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02116.

ALT Spring 2024 Assembly, Creating Art at Emerson and Beyond: Using Emergent Technologies and Multimodality; Thursday, February 29, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Bill Bordy Theater. RSVP by February 23, 2024

ALT Text: Margot Douaihy, Assistant Professor, Writing, Literature, Publishing. Margot Douaihy teaches in the areas of creative writing and multimodal storytelling (VR poetry and VR noir). She is the author of multiple books, including the queer crime novel Scorched Grace, which was named a Best Crime Novel of 2023 by The New York Times, The Guardian, and others.

ALT Text: Rashin Fahandej, Assistant Professor, Visual Media Arts. Rashin Fahandej is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and the public in generating social change. She has been a research fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and a visiting faculty member at MassArt.

ALT Text: Indira Salinas, Assistant Professor, Performing Arts. Since 2000, Indira Salinas has conducted voice workshops around Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Singapore and the USA. Indira has taught at National School of Theater ENAT in Mexico City. She is a founding member of Médula Teatro company.

ALT Book launch events (some venues require RSVPs): Thursday, February 15, 7 pm: Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA, with Daphne Kalotay. Wednesday, February 21, 7 pm: Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, with Julia Glass. Tuesday, March 26, 7 pm: Earfull Series, The Burren (back room), Somerville, MA. with Mona Awad. Friday, April 12, 7 pm: Belmont Books, Belmont, MA. with Kyoko Mori.

ALT Book launch events (some venues require RSVPs): Thursday, February 15, 7 pm: Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA, with Daphne Kalotay. Wednesday, February 21, 7 pm: Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, with Julia Glass. Tuesday, March 26, 7 pm: Earfull Series, The Burren (back room), Somerville, MA. with Mona Awad. Friday, April 12, 7 pm: Belmont Books, Belmont, MA. with Kyoko Mori.