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X-WR-CALNAME:Reading and Conversation: Éric Morales-Franceschini
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DESCRIPTION:Éric Morales-Franceschini\, associate professor of English and
  Latin American and Caribbean studies in the Franklin College of Arts and 
 Sciences\, will discuss and read selections from his new poetry collection
  Syndrome\, published in January 2024 by Anhinga Press after being selecte
 d by Juan Felipe Herrera for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.\n\nM
 orales-Franceschini's chapbook Autopsy of a Fall (Newfound\, 2021) was awa
 rded the 2020 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize\, and his poems have appeared 
 in Moko\, Somos en escrito\, Chiricú\, Witness\, Dryland\, Acentos Review
 \, Kweli\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, Bodega\, Matter\, Muzzle\, sx salon an
 d reviews at Newfound\, Tropics of Meta\, The Rumpus\, Boston Review\, and
  AGNI.\n\nMorales-Franceschini's scholarly research specializes in postcol
 onial theory and criticism\, decolonial aesthetics\, Marxist critical theo
 ry\, Caribbean and Latinx literary and cultural studies\, and radical thou
 ght in the Américas. \n\nIn December 2023\, he was named the winner of th
 e Modern Language Association of America's thirty-third annual Katherine S
 inger Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish
  in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures\, for
  his book The Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí\, Mythopoetics\, and Liberati
 on\, published by the University of Virginia Press.\n\nThis event is prese
 nted by the department of English\,the Latin American and Caribbean Studie
 s Institute\, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the UGA Human
 ities Council as part of the UGA Humanities Festival.
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SUMMARY:Reading and Conversation: Éric Morales-Franceschini
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