Third Offering of Border Voices Lecture Series Features Author Elizabeth González James
The third offering in Texas A&M International University’s (TAMIU) Border Voices Lecture Series, scheduled Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, featured author Elizabeth González James.
“A Reading and Conversation with Award-winning Author Elizabeth González James” was held at 6:30 p.m. at the Villa Antigua Border Museum (downtown) at 810 Zaragoza Street.
Admission was free of charge and open to the public.
González James is the author of the novels Mona at Sea and The Bullet Swallower. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Idaho Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Rumpus, StorySouth, and PANK, among others, and have received numerous Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations.
She was featured in the MSNBC documentary “My Generation” representing Millennials and has taught fiction writing at Grub Street, Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop, Story Studio, and elsewhere. Originally from Laredo, she lives with her family in Nashville, Tenn.
TAMIU assistant professors Dr. Adam Kozaczka and Dr. Zachary Hernández, faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Humanities, have organized the Series.
The Border Voices Lecture Series is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the State affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the community partnership of the Laredo Public Library and the Webb County Heritage Foundation.
For more information, contact either Dr. Kozaczka at 956.326.3300 or email adam.kozaczka@tamiu.edu, or Dr. Hernández at zachary.hernandez@tamiu.edu, or 956.326.2582.
Previous Border Voices Lecture Series presenters have included Rick Jervis, journalist and author of Capturing the Border Patrol Silent Killer, and Dr. Norma E. Cantú, author and Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, who conducted her “From the Self to the World: A Generative Writing Workshop.”
Upcoming 2025 lectures in the Border Voices Lecture Series include:
* A Film Screening and Conversation with Paloma Martínez (March 20, 2025), award-winning filmmaker, teacher, and labor organizer.
* Border Girls: Reading Laredo with J. Buentello Benavides (April 17, 2025), writer, teacher, editor, and translator.
Visit the dedicated Border Voices Lecture Series website for additional details.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this speaker series do not necessarily represent those of Humanities Texas or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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