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Graduate student and author Dainerys Machado Vento was recently honored by the prestigious Granta literary magazine.
By Barbara Gutierrez
04-20-2021 Graduate student named among world’s best Spanish-language writers By Barbara Gutierrez
04-20-2021
Dainerys Machado Vento, a graduate student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, is among the promising young writers honored by the prestigious Granta literary magazine.
When the pandemic started in March 2020, Dainerys Machado Vento, a graduate student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, was co-teaching an interdisciplinary curatorial course.
Lillian Manzor, an associate professor in the department who was teaching the course with her, remembers that when the students shared their situations and their feelings of uncertainty and discouragement, Machado Vento would tell them repeatedly, “remember that there is poetry and art to help us through these d
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CFP: Mariel @ 40 (Anthurium)
Here is a call for papers for “Mariel @ 40,” a special issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. Lillian Manzor, University of Miami, and Michael Bustamante, Florida International University. The deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2021.
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue “Mariel @ 40,” devoted to the origins, unfolding, and enduring legacies of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, to be published in November 2021. Submissions may include research articles, personal essays/narratives, creative writing/fiction, interviews, oral histories, and reviews of existing scholarly or cultural production. Digital humanities and/or web-based publications/projects are also welcome. Submissions may focus on any aspect of the Mariel Boatlift’s impact on Cuba, the Cuban diaspora, South Florida, and/or the United States.