invites you to the inauguration
of
THE CUBA LECTURE SERIES
I’m Cuban, What’s
Your Excuse?
A Bilingual Evening with Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
Thursday, September 18, 2003,
7:30 pm
Danielson Gallery
The Biltmore Hotel
1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida
A reception will follow
RSVP by September 12, 2003,
305-348-1991
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Gustavo Pérez-Firmat |
Gustavo Pérez-Firmat was
born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida. He earned
his Ph.D.
in Comparative Literature
from the University of Michigan and taught at Duke University
from 1979 to 1999. He is currently the David Feinson Professor
of Humanities at Columbia University. Pérez-Firmat has been the
recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the American Council
of
Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
A poet, fiction writer and scholar,
he is the author of Idle Fictions (1982; rev. ed. 1993), Literature
and Liminality (1986),
The
Cuban Condition (1989), Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?
(editor; 1990), Life on the Hyphen (1994; Spanish
version: Vidas en vilo, 2000), My Own Private Cuba (1999), and
Cincuenta lecciones de exilio y desexilio (2000). He has
also published three collections of poetry in English and Spanish:
Carolina Cuban (1987), Equivocaciones (1989), and
Bilingual Blues (1995); a novel, Anything But Love (2000); and
a memoir, Next Year In Cuba (1995; rev. ed. 2000; Spanish
version: El año que viene estamos en Cuba, 1997). Next
Year in Cuba was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction
in
1995; Life on the Hyphen was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden University
Press National Book Award for 1994 and received
Honorable Mention in the Modern Language Association’s
Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies
Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.
In 1995, Pérez-Firmat was named Duke University Scholar/Teacher
of the Year, Duke University’s highest award for teaching
excellence. In 1997 Newsweek included him among “100 Americans
to watch for the next century” and Hispanic Business
Magazine selected him as one of the “100 most influential
Hispanics.” His forthcoming book, Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism
in Anglo-Hispanic Literature, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan
in 2003. He divides his time between New York City
and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife
and two children.
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