The innocent eye - children's perspectives on utopias of the seventies

The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Waterloo is proud to present a lecture by Professor Rita De Grandis.

"The Innocent Eye. Children’s Perspectives on the Utopias of the Seventies"

Rita De Grandis is a Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of 2 books, 2 co-edited books, and numerous articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Professor De Grandis has applied critical theory to modern and contemporary Latin American literature, cinema, and popular media. She has published extensively on a range of topics dealing with María Luisa Bemberg’s cinema, Ricardo Piglia, José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan José Saer, Representations of Peronism at the end of the twentieth-century, questioning cultural hybridity, among others. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Best Book Prize from the Canadian Association of Hispanics.

Presentation will be in English. All are welcome!

Professor Rita De Grandis lecture poster (PDF)