Dr. Juping Wang, assistant professor of Spanish at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will present “Contemporary Cuban Women Poets” in a faculty research seminar at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, in room 210 of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.
Wang finds it particularly interesting to compare contemporary Cuban women poets with contemporary Chinese women poets by examining gender issues in the context of Communist ideology. Cuban poets such as Odette Alonso Yodú, Damaris Calderón, Atencio Caridad, Wendy Guerra, Yamila Vega Hernández, María Elena Hernández Caballero, and Teresa Mello Rodríquez are enlarging their readership through greater publication of their works, but remain virtually unknown to the academic world. Wang is also preparing an anthology of translations of these poets.
Wang earned her Ph.D. from Tulane University. She joined the SAU faculty in 2003. She has published articles and translations of Hispanic writers in Chinese. In English, she has published an article on Roberto Sosa, the national poet of Honduras. She has also delivered scholarly presentations at a number of regional conferences.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
