“Blood Novels” with Guest Speaker Dr. Julia Chang

You’re invited to a guest lecture with Blood Novels author, Dr. Julia Chang, on Thursday, April 6, from 4:30-5:30 PM in the ZSR Library Auditorium (ZSR 404).

Julia Chang is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, where she is also a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Southeast Asia Program. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley.

In her talk, Dr. Chang will speak about her recent monograph Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (University of Toronto Press, 2022), the first book to examine the cultural and literary significance of blood in modern Spain. While engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, Chang makes a case for treating blood as a critical analytic tool that challenges our understanding of gendered and racialized embodiment in Spain.