FLB home News resources for undergraduates graduates faculty staff graduate assistants flb business office flb graduate student services   staff directory FLB directories UIUC home old browsers April 15, 2005 2004-2005/046 Lecture April 18: “Queering Colonial Penetrations: Recasting Puerto Rican Politics" Juana María Rodríguez, associate professor of women and gender studies and the University of California at Davis, will give a lecture Monday, April 18, at 5 p.m., in the Reading Room of the Levis Faculty Center, 909 W. Illinois, Urbana. The talk, entitled, “Queering Colonial Penetrations: Recasting Puerto Rican Politics,” is free and open to the public. Rodríguez teaches courses on Latina/o literature and cultures, queer theory, media arts, and critical legal theory. She is the author of “Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces” (New York University Press, 2003), which explores how queer Latino/a identities are transformed by encounters with language, the law, culture, and public policy. She identifies three key areas as the project's case studies: activism, primarily HIV prevention; immigration law; and cyberspace. The lecture has been organized by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Reading Group (IPRH) on Comparative Queer Studies: Sexualities, Races, Nations. It is co-sponsored by the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Gender and Women¹s Studies Program; Latino/Latina Studies Program; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; IPRH reading group on Latina Feminism; and the Trowbridge Office of American Literature, Culture, and Society.