Tanner Talk Series Latina Literature, Translation, and Research: Writing in/on/as Displacement

USU’s student population is noticeably multilingual and inclusive of heritage speakers of foreign languages, speakers of additional languages with extensive experience abroad, and international students. These students are, therefore, familiar (even if unconsciously) with the practice of displacing themselves between languages, discourses, and cultural contexts. This series aims at fostering conversations, workshops, and exchanges with professionals who have built their careers around notions of displacement and translation. This includes authors born outside of the United States who publish in English, translators of Latin American writers, and researchers of migrants’ and undocumented persons’ rights and visibility. Our speakers’ work is to write in/on/as displacement, that is, within an initially unfamiliar cultural context (a different country, language, sociopolitical and educational setting); about this experience; and/or as a way of discovering and changing perspectives about oneself.

About Guest Speaker Myriam Gurba:
Myriam Gurba is a writer and activist. She is the author of the short story collection Dahlia Season (Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction), the true-crime memoir Mean, the essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions (finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism; Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction), and the upcoming Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings. She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, and Paris Review. See her page here https://www.myriamgurba.com/, and come listen to her talk about how displacement and translation, in their many senses, figure in her writing.

When

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 1:10 pm

Where

Mehdi Heravi Global Teaching and Learning Center
   Room: Carolyn Tanner Irish Pavilion, room 201

Category

Tanner Talks

Event Type

Lecture/Readings

Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Target Audience

Students,Faculty,Staff,General Public

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Name: Dr. Marcela Lemos; Dr. Sophia Martínez Abbud
Phone: (435) 797-1209
Email: marcela.lemos@usu.edu

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