Tag: memory

• May 11, 2019

  commencement, this time as staff

  Six years ago today, I walked across the stage at the University of Illinois’ Foellinger Auditorium, complete with a newly minted Master’s in Spanish (emphasis colonial Latin American and Siglo de Oro/Medieval Spanish literature, interest area masculinities, theoretical positioning postcolonial). Two years and a few days later, I walked across another stage, this time for […]
• January 27, 2019

  On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2019

  I grew up in Hyde Park, on streets where at least a hundred languages were spoken every day (there were probably more on the residential part of my block alone), and where everyone was pretty much secular, but also observant enough for a kid on the block to think that every part of the world […]