10am – el taller Reads Together: Al Sur de Tánger
Join us for a conversation between Eric Calderwood (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and author Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla (University Autónoma de Madrid) about his new book Al sur de Tánger: un viaje a las culturas de Maurrecos. This session will be moderated by Sarah J. Pearce (NYU).
We have provided 15 books for el taller members who registered to attend this session, with priority given to students and independent scholars. There is a copy reserved in the KJCC library available for reading on site. The book is also available to purchase and a brief digital preview can be accessed here.
To register for this event: CLICK HERE.
Speaker Bios:
Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla has taught at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 2006. Between 2002-2006, he was director of Escuela de Traductores de Toledo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha). He is the author of Al sur de Tánger. Un viaje a las culturas de Marruecos (2022) y La literatura marroquí contemporánea (2006) and co-editor of books such as New Geographies: Texts and Contexts in Modern Arabic Literature (2018). In 2012, he was member of the judging panel of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He is also director of the series of Arab authors translated into Spanish Memorias del Mediterráneo, published by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Arabic Literature, Al-Andalus/Magreb, Oriente Moderno, Middle Eastern Literatures, Anaquel de Estudios Árabes, Journal of North African Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Arab Studies Journal or Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
Eric Calderwood is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of History, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the European Union Center, and the Center for African Studies. His first book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture, was published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2018. It has been translated into Spanish and Arabic and has won several awards, including the 2019 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies. His second book, On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2023. He has also published articles in PMLA, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Journal of North African Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. In addition, he has contributed to public-facing venues like Foreign Policy, McSweeney’s, The American Scholar, NPR, and the BBC.