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Celebrating Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally, who authored more than 80 plays, musicals, and opera librettos before he died earlier this year (read Texas Monthly’s tribute) was born on this day in 1938 in St .Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, and became one of the most respected American playwrights… read more 

ABOUT DIANA SILVEIRA LEITE
Diana Silveira Leite is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature and Graduate School Continuing Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Romanticism’s Discontents: Writing Black Personhood in Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” examines Afro-Brazilian literature from the Romantic period, focusing on slave narratives and abolitionist texts. She holds a M.A. in British Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and B.A. degrees in English and History from The University of Texas at Austin.

ABOUT GAILA SIMS
Gaila Sims is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Imprimatur of the State: Interpretation of Slavery at American History Museums,” explores how state history museums exhibit on the history of enslavement in the United States. Originally from Riverside, California, she received her M.A. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. in History and African American Studies from Oberlin College.