Jesse Alemán to Present the Sixth Richard W. Etulain Lecture in History

Jesse Alemán, UNM associate professor of English, presents the 2010 Richard W. Etulain Lecture, “From Union Officers to Cuban Rebels: The Story of the Brothers Cavada and their American Civil Wars,” Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the UNM Student Union Building, Lobo A and B. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.

Alemán joined the faculty in 1999 and his scholarship and teaching cover two inter-related fields: nineteenth-century American literature and the emergence of Mexican America. His work focuses on the literary histories and national identities forged in the U.S. Southwest after the 1846-1848 U.S.-Mexico War. He has published more than a dozen articles in scholarly journals and edited collections.

Alemán edited and reprinted Loreta Janeta Velazquez’s 1876 autobiography, The Woman in Battle, which recounts the adventures of a Cuban woman who cross-dressed as a Confederate soldier to fight in the U.S. Civil War; and he co-edited Empire and the Literature of Sensation, an anthology of nineteenth-century popular literature about U.S. imperialism in Mexico and Cuba. He is working on “Wars of Rebellion,” a book that places nineteenth-century Hispanic writings about the U.S. Civil War within a context that considers related wars of rebellion in Cuba and Mexico.

The Etulain Lecture was conceived by Calvin P. Horn and David Holtby to honor the professional accomplishments of UNM History Professor Richard W. Etulain. The endowed lecture series is presented by UNM faculty members whose scholarship contributes to the regional history of the Southwest. The series is funded by the C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Endowment.

For more information on the 2010 Etulain Lecture, or other events sponsored by the Center for the Southwest, contact Rebecca Vanucci at 277-7688 or e-mail, cntrsw@unm.edu.

This post was originally posted on UNM Today here.