Dr. Lorena Gauthereau, former CLIR-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Houston, joins Arte Público Press/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage as the new Digital Programs Manager. Gauthereau will support research, training and projects in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement as part of the US Latino Digital Humanities program. A $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been awarded to the University of Houston to establish a first-of-its-kind US Latino Digital Humanities Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The program will give scholars expanded access to a vast collection of written materials produced by Latinos and archived by the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) program and UH’s Arte Público Press, the nation’s largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by Hispanic authors from the United States. Gauthereau will build on her previous work at Recovery as a Fellow, which includes digital …

Arte Público Press Author José M. Hernández featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Hernández for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author:   José M. Hernández, the author of From Farmworker to Astronaut / De campesino a astronauta (Piñata Books, 2019), Reaching for the Stars (Hachette, 2012) and El cosechador de estrellas (Editorial Patria, 2012), obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering, and in 2004 he was selected to be part of the 19th class of US Astronauts. He achieved his life-long dream to become an astronaut in 2009 when he served as the flight engineer on the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 fourteen-day …

Arte Público Press Author Yolanda Gallardo featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Gallardo for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author:     YOLANDA GALLARDO is a poet, playwright and novelist born in the Bronx to parents of Cuban and Venezuelan/Puerto Rican heritage. Her play, Everybody Knows My Business, has been performed in Puerto Rico and optioned for Off Broadway. She’s the author of a digital poetry collection, The Fragile Thread (Word Wrangler Press), and her poems have been published in journals including Long Shot Magazine and Chiricú. She lives and works in Bronxville, New York. About her new book, The Glass Eye: Doña Amada can see more through one eye than …

Arte Público Press Author Alidis Vicente featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Vicente for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: ALIDIS VICENTE is the author of the bilingual “flip” book series for intermediate readers, The Flaca Files, which includes The Missing Chancleta and Other Top-Secret Cases: The Flaca Files / La chancleta perdida y otros casos secretos: Los expedientes de Flaca (Piñata Books, 2013), and The Case of the Three Kings: The Flaca Files / El caso de los Reyes Magos: Los expedientes de Flaca (Piñata Books, 2016). The first bilingual “flip” book in her Mister Malo series, The Shameless Shenanigans of Mister Malo / …

Arte Público Press Author Henry A. J. Ramos featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Ramos for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: HENRY A. J. RAMOS is Principal of Mauer Kunst Consulting, a private research and advising firm working with social investors and public interest nonprofit groups. He is past Executive Director of Equal Voice Action, a national membership organization of poor and low-income families seeking enhanced political and economic empowerment, and past President and CEO of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, one of the nation’s leading applied research centers on issues of economic mobility and justice. Prior to the Insight Center, Ramos …

Histories and Cultures of Latinas: Suffrage, Activism and Women’s Rights ***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPT. 30*** February 20-22, 2019  ·  University of Houston-Downtown  ·  Houston, Texas The XV Recovery conference will convene in Houston from February 20 to 22, 2020 to continue the legacy of scholars meeting to discuss and present their research. The conference theme invites scholars—including archivists, librarians, linguists, historians, critics, theorists and community members–to share examples of the cultural legacy they are recovering, preserving and making available about the culture of the Hispanic world whose peoples resided here, immigrated to or were exiled in the United States over the past centuries.   This conference foregrounds the work of Latinas that focuses on women’s rights, suffrage and education as we usher in a new phase of feminist critical genealogies. We seek papers, panels and posters in either English or Spanish that highlight these many contributions, but also offer us critical ways …

Arte Público Press Author Carlos Cisneros featured on Houston Public Media Houston Public Media radio host Eric Ladau interviewed Cisneros for its website’s “Arte Público Press Authors” feature, and along with the transcript, their conversation is available to listeners on the station’s interactive site through on-demand audio streaming here. Click here to see all Arte Público authors featured on Houston Public Media. About the Author: CARLOS CISNEROS graduated from South Texas College of Law and has his own law practice in Brownsville, Texas. A former assistant district attorney in Cameron County, he has extensive felony and misdemeanor trial experience. Prior to returning to the Rio Grande Valley, he worked as an associate attorney in Houston. Through his work, he has observed first-hand much of what he so vividly narrates in his novels, The Case Runner (Arte Público Press, 2008); The Name Partner (2010) and The Land Grant (2012) . In …