"I wished that I had an enormous scythe"; a book talk

Professor Ren Ellis Neyra is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Wesleyan University. They write in the fields of Caribbean, African diaspora, and U.S. Latinx studies of aesthetics. Trained in poetics of the Americas and Literary and Critical Theory, Ellis Neyra focuses as a scholar on literature, especially poetic forms and their racialized, social, and political histories, as well as music, cinema, and performance. They are as interested in the possibilities for thought that emerge between aesthetic and literary forms and theory, as they are in zones of critical impossibility–impasses, negativity, and irresolvable ethical quandaries. Ellis Neyra has additional interests in deconstruction, Third Cinema, Cine Imperfecto, ethics of reading, and translation. 

Sponsored by Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of French, and Whitney Humanities Center
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