Litquake at USF: Transborder Realities
October 12, 2012, 12:15pm, KA 111
Yuri Herrera
(Actopan, México, 1970) received his BA in Political Science at UNAM,
his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, and
his Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley. His novel Trabajos
del reino won the Premio Binacional de Novela Joven 2003 and received
the Otras voces, otros ámbitos prize for the best novel published in
Spain in 2008, and has been translated into English, French, German, and
Italian. His second novel, Señales que precederán al fin del mundo was
finalist of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize and is going to be translated into
several languages. He has taught literary theory, creative writing and
Latin American literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and at the
University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is currently a visiting
professor at the University of Tulane.
Heriberto Yepez
is a Mexican writer, journalist and psychotherapist, and a full time
professor at the Art School at the Autonomous University of Baja
California, in Tijuana. He’s the author of more than a dozen books of
poetry, experimental fiction, novels, theory and literary criticism in
Spanish, including Tijuanologías (Umbral-UABC, 2006); A.B.U.R.T.O
(Sudamericana, 2005); El órgano de la risa; El Imperio de la Neomemoria
(Almadía, 2007); Contra la Tele-Visión (Tumbona, 2008) and Al otro lado
(Planeta, 2008). His book have received four national literary awards,
among other recognitions. His work in translation include a selection of
William Blake’s fragments/aphorisms; José Vasconcelos work in English; a
poetry anthology and a forthcoming lengthy prose and poetics anthology
of Jerome Rothenberg, and currently works editing the first Charles
Bernstein’s prose anthology in Spanish. His English work has appeared in
journals such as Chain, Tripwire, Shark, and XCP. In Here is Tijuana!,
Black Dog Publishing (2006), Yepez collaborated with anthropologist
Fiamma Montezemolo and architect Rene Peralta to explore and document
the socio-cultural forms of the city. His Babellebab: Non-Poetry on the
End of Translation was published in the U.S. by Duration Press in 2003,
and Wars. Threesomes. Drafts. & Mothers by Factory School in 2008.
He currently lives in Tijuana, México. He defines himself as a
post-Mexican writer.
Co-Sponsors: Latin American Studies, CELASA, Modern and Classical Languages, and Art + Architecture. For more information, please contact malitman@usfca.edu.