Cátedra José Emilio Pacheco 2023: Pura López Colomé

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPAP) at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) of the University of Maryland in College Park created the José Emilio Pacheco Distinguished Lecture Series / Cátedra José Emilio Pacheco in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute back in 2016 as a forum for exceptionally great writers, thinkers, philosophers, and scholars who articulate their creative work around Mexico and Latin American literary and cultural traditions, and on the aesthetic, ethical, and human values that José Emilio Pacheco championed.

Pacheco was a Distinguished University Professor at Maryland from 1984 to 2006, and he taught and trained a long list of prominent Mexican writers and intellectuals and an international cohort of students.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 6:45PM
Mexican Cultural Institute 

Public Lecture with Pura López Colomé (in Spanish): "Nuevas voces en la poesía mexicana contemporánea".

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 3:00PM
St. Mary's Hall, Multipurpose Room Public

Lecture with Pura López Colomé (in English): "José Emilio Pacheco: His Legacy as Essayist, Poet and Translator in My Own Poetry".

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Poet, literary critic, and translator Pura López Colomé was born in Mexico City. She spent part of her childhood in Mérida, Yucatan and attended high school in the United States. She studied literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, publishing a regular column for the newspaper Unomásuno. English translations of her work include Watchword (2012), translated by Forrest Gander; Aurora (2008), translated by Jason Stumpf; and No Shelter: Selected Poems (2002), translated by Gander. López-Colomé has translated works by Samuel Beckett, H.D., Seamus Heaney, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and others into Spanish. In 2008 she received Mexico’s Xavier Villaurrutia Award.