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Julia Alvarez

December 1, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching

The passion to push the paradigm

Detail of Julia Alvarez typescript

by DANIEL ARBINO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? 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… read more 

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).

February 13, 2018, Filed Under: Research + Teaching

Transnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive

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… read more 

January 17, 2017, Filed Under: Meet the Staff, Research + Teaching

Meet the Staff: Andi Gustavson facilitates teaching with the collections

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.

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