Jesse Alemán delivers the Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill

On November 17, Dr. Jesse Alemán delivered the Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South. Named after James A. Hutchins, a UNC alumnus, and generously funded by the Hutchins Family Foundation, the Hutchins lecture series invites researchers to UNC to present their scholarship to mixed public and academic audiences as a way of fostering communication between faculty, students, and community members. Dr. Alemán was invited to present “Loreta Janeta Velazquez’s Civil Wars as a Cuban and a Confederate” after his research was featured in the PBS film, Rebel, and his edition of The Woman in Battle was required reading for an English doctoral seminar on the global south. Dr. Alemán’s lecture focused on how the Civil War serves as a backdrop for the “internal civil wars” between gender, sexual, linguistic, religious, and national identities that forge Velazquez’s emergence as a nineteenth-century US Latina.

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