The Spanish Legacy: From Creole Patriotism to Chicano Power Novemat 1PM ET with Ignacio Martínez, Associate Professor of History and Ph.D Program Director at the University of Texas El Paso This talk will highlight some of the ways in which their example and influence have helped to shape the speaker’s thinking, their work (as professor, scholar and mentor), and their complex identity as an educator, mother, poet and self-determined woman from working class Jamaican roots. This talk was a retrospective on the lives and work of Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde and Jamaican Creole Poet, Louise Bennett-Coverley, three Black women whose creative and scholarly activism have shaped the speaker’s identity as a poet-scholar with a commitment to equity, justice, autonomy and creative exploration of the “self under construction.“Īll three women resisted attempts of the dominant culture to define and limit their selfhood and found ways to extend their influence beyond the limitations of race, gender, color, sexuality, culture, class and religion. Self-Fashioning, Resistance, & Resilience: Lessons From Our Literary and Activist Foremothers Septemat 1PM ET with Donna Aza Weir-Soley, President of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars & Associate Professor of English at Florida International University Sponsored by the HSI Pathways to the Professoriate Program, this webinar series will feature faculty in the humanities from various institutions who will share about their scholarship and discuss their research.

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