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Cabral: On Percy Jackson and representation

Cabral: On Percy Jackson and representation

May 17, 2022

I read Rick Riordan’s “The Lightning Thief” for the first time during a fourth-grade field trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land. My friends were shouting about the cool cars...

Phillips: Stop romanticizing trauma and mental illness

April 10, 2018

Yesterday, I found myself on the Greyhound bus at 9 a.m., openly crying reading Junot Díaz’s new article in The New Yorker entitled, “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma.” I have loved his...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz (right) speaks about the importance of compassion in overcoming immigrant challenges. His talk, held at Ryan Family Auditorium on Thursday, was moderated by English Prof. John Alba Cutler.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz discusses his experience as an immigrant

January 29, 2016

Immigrants of this generation should dig deeper into their parents’ experiences in order to comprehensively understand their identity, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz said in a speech Thursday...

Author Junot Diaz to speak at Northwestern

January 19, 2016

Author Junot Diaz will speak at Northwestern later this month as part of the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, the organization announced Tuesday. Diaz, a writing professor at the Massachusetts...

Northwestern professor John Alba Cutler discusses the importance of prizes in the Latino-American literary community at the Evanston Public Library on Thursday evening. The talk was part of a series about Latino-Americans called “Hecho in the U.S.A.,” sponsored jointly by EPL and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

Northwestern professor talks competition in Latino-American literature

April 30, 2015

A Northwestern professor spoke about the role of competition in Latino-American literature at the Evanston Public Library on Thursday evening. John Alba Cutler, an English professor who specializes...

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