PLENARY SPEAKERS FOR THE VI International Conference on the American Literary and Cultural West: Local/Regional Perspectives and Global Imaginings

 

Dear all, 

We are here again with our four magnificent Plenary Speakers for the VI International Conference on the American Literary and Cultural West: Local/Regional Perspectives and Global Imaginings.

Our first plenary speaker is Prof. Kalenda Eaton:

Professor in The Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Eaton is a distinguished humanities scholar whose research focuses on African American western regional studies; intersections of Black literary studies and cultural history; and women’s studies.

Our second plenary speaker is Prof. Anthony Macías:

Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Anthony Macías is an acclaimed scholar of Chicano/a studies, American popular culture, music, film, and ethnic studies. He is the author of Chicano-Chicana Americana (2023) and Mexican American Mojo (2008), with an extensive record of publications and international conference presentations.

Our third plenary speaker is Filmmaker Andrea Jaurrieta:

Andrea Jaurrieta is a film director, screenwriter and producer whose work explores identity, memory and gender. Her acclaimed second feature film, Nina (2024), is a postwestern that received the Silver Biznaga Special Critics’ Jury Prize at the Málaga Film Festival. Alongside her filmmaking career, Jaurrieta teaches film studies, acting and directing, and has delivered masterclasses at the ECAM (Paris), ESCAC (Barcelona) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

And our fourth plenary speaker is Prof. Stefano Rosso:

Stefano Rosso is Professor of American Literature at the University of Bergamo. He serves as co-editor of Ácoma, a journal of North American Studies, and co-directs the critical series

Americane (Ombre corte Publishing in Verona). His publications include several essays published in International and Italian journals, a monograph on American fiction of the Vietnam War (2003) and another on contemporary American Western fiction (2012). Additionally, he has edited ten volumes, three of which focus on the Western. 

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