Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at Springfield College
Springfield College Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Dr. Rachel Rubinstein delivered a powerful keynote address kicking off Latinx Heritage Month on Wednesday, Sept. 15 in the Presentation Room on the campus.
Springfield College Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Dr. Rachel Rubinstein delivered a powerful keynote address kicking off Latinx Heritage Month on Wednesday, Sept. 15 in the Presentation Room on the campus. Rubinstein led reflections on Latinidad, Jewishness, and Intersectionality on the Eve of Yom Kippur and Latinx Heritage Month.
Latinx Heritage Month celebrations are led and sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Latinx Student Organization, in collaboration with the Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism; the Counseling Center; and Bay Path University.
Rubinstein officially joined the campus community on July 12, 2021. The child of immigrants from Mexico, her scholarship focuses on migration, multilingualism, racial formation and literary nationalism, as well as on pedagogies in the fields of ethnic and race studies. She is the author of Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, as well as the co-editor of Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon and most recently, Teaching Jewish American Literature, a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series.
Latinx Heritage Month continues on the campus on Friday, Sept. 17 with a Poetry Reading featuring Jose B. Gonzales, from Noon to 1 p.m. at Cheney Hall, Rooms A and B.
This program is free and open to the campus community and the public.
González, one of the most popular Latinx speakers in the U.S., will present his poetry about his immigration from El Salvador to the U.S., and his voyage from non-English speaker to a professor of English with a PhD in English.
González has been a featured presenter at places such as the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.; the Poetry Foundation in Chicago; Bryant Park in New York City; and colleges such as Notre Dame University, Harvard University, Cornell University, and Rutgers University. He has been featured in Univision and has been a contributor to NPR. His poetry books, Toys Made of Rock and When Love Was Reels, were International Latino Book Award finalists. He is the editor of latinostories.com.
For questions or more information, please email multicultural@springfield.edu. If you need to request disability-related accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services staff at ascdas@springfield.edu or call at (413) 748-3383.
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