April 21: José Limón ACC/CED event! Note NEW TOPIC

The American Cultures Colloquium (ACC) and The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) present: 

José Limón 

University of Notre Dame 

Thursday, April 21 

Coffee Talk:

Time/Place TBA

Lecture: 
Remembrances of Things in Texas Past: Memoirs, Critical Regions, and the World System

5 PM, 201 University Hall

Reception following talk

José Limón is Professor of American Literature and American Studies Fellow at the 

Institute for Latino Studies, Notre Dame. His academic interests include cultural studies, 

American literature, Mexican-American literature, anthropology and literature, US-Mexico 

cultural relations, critical theory, and folklore and popular culture. In 1987-88 he was a 

fellow at the Stanford Humanities Research Center. The National Endowment for the 

Humanities awarded him a research fellowship in 1994, and he received another research 

fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for 1997-98. His book Mexican 

Ballads and Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry 

received an Honorable Mention in the University of Chicago Folklore Prize; Dancing with 

the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas won the 

American Ethnological Society Senior Scholar Prize in 1996. Professor Limon has also 

edited the writings of Jovita Gonzalez, Texas historian and folklorist, in two volumes, 

Caballero: A Historical Novel (1995) and Dew on the Thorn (1997).

An interdisciplinary dialogue sponsored by: African American Studies, American Studies, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Communication Studies, Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture, English, The Graduate School, Gender Studies, History, The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Latina and Latino Studies, Performance Studies, Political Science, Screen Cultures, and Weinberg College of Arts 

& Sciences. For more information about The American Culture Colloquium (ACC), please visit http://www.english.northwestern.edu/acc/