María Célleri and Thania Muñoz will discuss topics related to feminismo, research abroad, linguistic barriers, feminist methodologies, ethics of doing research abroad

María Célleri, assistant professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, current book project, Uncovering the Virgen del Panecillo: Quito’s Postcolonial Urban Transformation & Decolonial Future Imaginaries examines the political and symbolic importance of the monument of the Virgen del Panecillo in a postcolonial cultural research study of how public monuments come to represent and often reproduce national imaginations which are then mapped onto national territories.

Célleri will discuss her research in Ecuador, archival work, collaborations, activist research in the U.S., access, language, and challenges of working abroad.

Thania Muñoz, assistant professor of Spanish, Latin American and Latinx literature and culture; affiliate faculty of language, literacy and culture; and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, is the Co-Editor in Chief of Latino Literatures – A Cultural and Literary Journal. Muñoz focuses on the marginalization of Spanish language as a vibrant literary language in the U.S, contemporary Latin American immigrant literature, memory and intertextuality studies to explore how these narratives negotiate belonging within the boundaries of the United States and across the Americas.

Muñoz will speak about research in México and the U.S., immigrant communities in the U.S., language justice, story telling, and literary creativity.

Moderator: Valerie Pasión, a graduate student of geography and environmental systems at UMBC.