Kathleen Cruz (UC Davis), “Threads from a Latina Labyrinth: Ariadne in Puerto Rican and Chicana Poetry”

Friday, November 1, 3:30 p.m.

HSSB 4080

Presented by the Classics Department

UC Davis assistant professor of Classics Kathleen Cruz will examine two poetic collections—Etnairis Rivera’s Ariadna del Agua (1989) and Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin (2018). She will explore the myth of Ariadne, focusing on how her story relates to the Puerto Rican, Nuyorican, and Chicana experiences and what unique opportunities it offers within the greater realm of Latine and Latin American creative engagement with the Mediterranean past.