A Celebration of Scholarship with Dr. Hannah Burdette (LANC) and Dr. Hope Munro (MTAD), Thursday, April 4th, 5:30 PM, PAC 134

Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024 5:30 p.m.

A Celebration of Scholarship with Dr. Hannah Burdette (LANC) and Dr. Hope Munro (MTAD),

Thursday, April 4 at 5:30 in PAC 134

Dr. Burdette and Dr. Munro will read excerpts from their recent monographs, followed by a conversation with the audience. Dr. Burdette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures, and her book, Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala: The Insurgent Poetics of Contemporary Indigenous Literature, was published with the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Hope Munro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance, and her book, What She Go Do: Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music, was published with the Caribbean Studies Series at the University of Mississippi Press.

Dr. Burdette's first book, Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala, explores the intersections between Indigenous literature and social movements over the past thirty years through the lens of insurgent poetics. Burdette is interested in how Indigenous literature and social movements are intertwined and why these phenomena arise almost simultaneously in disparate contexts across the Americas. She argues that literature constitutes a key weapon in political struggles as it provides a means to render subjugated knowledge visible and to envision alternatives to modernity and coloniality.

Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted by Dr. Munro in Trinidad and Tobago, What She Go Do demonstrates how the increased access and agency of women through folk and popular musical expressions has improved intergender relations and representation of gender in this nation. This is the first study to integrate all of the popular music expressions associated with Carnival—calypso, soca, and steelband music—within a single volume. The book includes interviews with popular musicians and detailed observation of musical performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions, as well as analysis of reception and use of popular music through informal exchanges with audiences (from the University of Mississippi Press).

Humanities Center

Dr. Hannah Burdette

hburdette@csuchico.edu

Dr. Hope Munro

hmunro@csuchico.edu