The Department of Philosophy will be conducting on-campus interviews for potential candidates for a tenure-track professor position within the Humanities program. Part of the on-campus interview process will have candidates giving a research presentation that is open to students to attend and provide feedback to the department. Please join us for the research presentation of Dr. Guillermo Rebollo Gil, titled "Citizen in the Colony: An Americanish Lyric."

Abstract:
In this talk, I will offer a critical—and rather biased—reading of the present moment in Puerto Rico, as it relates to the island-colony’s place within the American imagination. In particular, this talk will focus on the interplay of colonial and racial dynamics in the post-hurricane María context of increased migration of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. and increased interest in the mainland on island affairs. To do so, I will draw on a willful selection of recent events, grassroots activism, literary texts and personal anecdote.

Bio:
Guillermo Rebollo Gil (San Juan, 1979) received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Florida in Gainesville and his JD from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in Río Piedras. Currently, he is an assistant professor and researcher at the Jesús T. Piñero Center for Social Research at Universidad del Este in Carolina, Puerto Rico. His book Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment, a critical reflection on the potentialities of radical political thought on the Island, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan’s New Caribbean Studies series. His scholarly work has appeared in Racial & Ethnic Studies, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Journal of Popular Culture, Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry, American Behavioral Scientist and the University of Puerto Rico Law Review, among others. Rebollo Gil is also the author of several poetry and creative non-fiction collections.