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Julia Alvarez

The passion to push the paradigm

December 1, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

Detail of Julia Alvarez typescript

by DANIEL ARBINO
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. 

As a librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, I have been fortunate to carry values from my personal research journey and apply them to collection development and instruction. On a daily basis, I engage with researchers—faculty, students, scholars, and artists from Latin America and across the globe—whose own research journeys may begin years before they step through our door. [Read more…] about The passion to push the paradigm

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Julia Alvarez, literature, Research, What is Research?

DANIEL ARBINO
Daniel Arbino is the head of collection development at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. He has published extensively in Caribbean and U.S. Latinx literature with an emphasis on post-colonial theory and critical race theory. His most recent publication is “When the Mirror Says Yes to Dark Beauty: Healing the Colonial Wound" in Inés Hernández-Ávila's "That's Tejana," Chiricú Journal (Fall 2019).

Transnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive

February 13, 2018 - Sarah Papazoglakis

Image: Notecard card from Edgwidge Danticat to JuliaAlvarez; the image is titled Colored Girl. 

In 1999, five years after Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies was published, the United Nations General Assembly cited the novel as an important cultural text that helped to pass the resolution to designate November 25 an official International Day of Observance for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The date commemorates the November 25, 1960 assassination of the Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic under the brutal regime of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930–1961). [Read more…] about Transnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Dominican Republic, Edwidge Danticat, Fellowships, feminist, Julia Alvarez, literature

Meet the Staff: Andi Gustavson facilitates teaching with the collections

January 17, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Andi Gustavson, Instructional Services Coordinator at the Ransom Center, shares insight about collection materials. Photo by Pete Smith.

Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center.

An alumnus of The University of Texas’s American Studies doctoral program, Andi Gustavson first came to the Harry Ransom Center as a graduate intern. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Andi Gustavson facilitates teaching with the collections

Filed Under: Meet the Staff, Research + Teaching Tagged With: American Studies, Andi Gustavson, James Agee papers, Julia Alvarez, Meet the Staff, Undergraduate

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