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Cultura Catalana in the United States
Photo courtesy of Gonzalo Navajas |
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Date: Saturday, 13 October 2007
Time: 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT)
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The 2007 Frankfurt International Book Fair, presents as its Guest of Honour, The Catalan Culture. In recognition of this, the U.S. State Department will host a webchat with Catalan-American professor Gonzalo Navajas on October 13 at 3:00 p.m. GMT / 5:00 P.M. Frankfurt local time. In addition to his books of criticism, Gonzalo Navajas has published four novels. The last one, En blanco y negro, appeared this year. Professor Navajas would love to chat with you about topics including: The presence of Catalan literature and culture in the U.S.; the current state of cultural relations between the U.S. and Spain; the experience of coming to the U.S. and finding one´s own way among a diversity of cultures and languages; the California experience; the ways to combine teaching and academic publishing with creative writing and publishing fiction; and film and literature.
Guest Biography: Gonzalo Navajas was born in Barcelona in 1946. He came to the United States in 1970 and graduated with a Ph.D. at the University of California Los Angeles in 1975. He is the author of several books on film, fiction, European intellectual history, and aesthetics theory, and he has published four novels. His most recent novel, En blanco y negro, is set in Barcelona in the 1930´s and follows the wanderings of a Barcelona expatriate in southern California and Tijuana. His personal and professional life alternates between the United States and Europe, particularly Barcelona. Navajas is Professor of modern literature and film at the University of California at Irvine. He has also taught at many universities in the U.S. and other countries and he lectures regularly in the international cultural circuit.
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