The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas will
honor Rolando Hinojosa-Smith with a day-long symposium on Friday, Feb. 21 at
the Bass Lecture Hall. This noted author is also the Ellen Clayton Garwood
Professor in Creative Writing in UT’s English department, and a native of
Mercedes, Texas. He has been at UT since 1981, and served as director for the
Center for Texas Writers from 1984 to 1993. Hinojosa-Smith is the author of the
Klail City Death Trip series of books, and also of This Migrant Earth, Dear
Rafe, and Partners in Crime.
Symposium Events
Morning Session
9am Coffee and pan dulce
9:30 Welcome by David Montejano, CMAS Director
9:40 Richard Romo, Vice Provost, UT Austin “Rolondo Hinojosa: Vida, Hombre,
Obra”
9:50 Luis Leal, UC Santa Barbara
10:10 Arturo Madrid, Trinity University
10:30 break
10:45 Los Del Valle video presentation by Manuel Medrano, UT
Brownsville
11:20 Reading From His Work: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
noon Lunch break
Afternoon Session
1:30 Introduction of Speakers and Papers, Jos� Lim�n, UT
Austin
1:35 Critical Overview of Rolando Hinojosa’s Career & Work: Jos�
David Sald�var, UC Berkeley
2:05 Rolando Hinojosa’s American Dream: Joyce Glover Lee, U. of North Texas
2:30 The Feast of Time: Politics & the Comic in Rolando Hinojosa’s Klail
City Death Trip Series: Teresa McKenna, USC
2:55 break
3:20 Partners in Crime: Nostalgia, The National Imagination, and Greater
Mexico: Ralph Rodr�guez, UT-Austin
3:50 Orphans in Rolando Hinojosa’s Klail City Death Trip Series: Jaime
Mej�a, SWTSU
4:20 The House and the Road: Memory, Change, and Homeplaces in the Work of
Rolando Hinojosa: Monika Kaup, Visiting Scholar, CMAS, UT Austin
4:40 Discussion
5:30 Reception and Booksigning
Call 471-2136 for more info.
* Teresa McKenna, Chair and Associate Professor, English Department, U. of
Southern California, and a participant in the above event, will present the
first spring lecture of the “Chicana/Chicano Studies: Knowledge, Power and
Advocacy” series Feb. 20 at the Texas Union Eastwoods Room, 2.102, at 3:30pm.
McKenna’s lecture is titled “The Obsidian Mirror: Claiming the Stranger’s Face
in Chicano Latin Studies.” Her new book, Migrant Song: Politics and Process
in Contemporary Chicano Literature is due from UT Press this month. —
Margaret Moser
This article appears in February 21 • 1997 and February 21 • 1997 (Cover).