Cristina Rivera Garza has won the 2009 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Iberoamerican Award for her novel La Muerte Me Da (Death gives me), a book she published last year with Tusquets Editores. The award is given to the best book written by a woman in the Spanish-speaking world and is organized by the International Book Fair of Guadalajara.

 

 

Melissa Hidalgo presented a paper at the American Studies Association conference November 7, 2009 in Washington DC, entitled The Pedagogy of La profe y El Papi in Adelina Anthony's Mastering Sex and Tortillas.

 

Yin Wang will present a paper entitled Engaging the Deployment of Belonging: Gender Trans/Locations and Alternative Nationhood in the Writings and Activism of Zhu Tianxin, at the 124th Annual Meeting of American Historical Association, January 9, 2010.