Language Awareness & Linguistic Activism in Bolivia: How Afro-Yungueño May Become a “Language”
Dr. Sessarego is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He works primarily in the fields of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax. The linguistic study of the Afro-Latino Vernaculars of the Americas (ALVAs) —the languages that developed in Latin America from the contact of African languages, Spanish and Portuguese in colonial times— and the sociohistorical analysis of their evolution have formed the main themes of his research program for the past fifteen years or so.
"Unearthing Lost Voices of the Southwest: Revealing History through the Public Humanities."
Dr. Nogar is Associate Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. She researches colonial Mexican literature and communities of reading, and Mexican American cultural and literary studies, focusing on New Mexico. She is the author or editor of several books, including Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda, 1628- the Present (2018), A History of Mexican Literature (2016), Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (2014), Complete Spanish for Americans (2008). She also co-authored with Enrique Lamadrid the prizewinning bilingual young reader’s book Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (2017).