Join us for "Beyond Presumed Incompetent: The Benefits of Culture and Theory" a Women's History Month lecture with Dr. Gutiérrez y Muhs on Tuesday, March 26th from 4:00pm - 5:00pm. The in-person event will be held in Broome 1320, and the lecture will also be streamed live as a Zoom webinar.  

Dr. Gutiérrez y Muhs is a poet, literary critic and professor in Modern Languages and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Seattle University.  Gabriella is the author/editor of several poetry collections, books of literary criticism, first editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, 2012, essays and opinion pieces and many other articles and loose poems, as well as her forthcoming memoir, Fresh as a Lettuce, (El Martillo Press). She received her MA and PhD from Stanford University.  She has criss-crossed the nation giving keynote speeches and motivational talks, including the recent EKU Chautauqua keynote address: "(Inter)sectional (Inter)actions: Being Horizontal." 

She has also edited several anthologies and has been anthologized and published in multiple journals and anthologies like Cascadian Zen,  As/Us: A Space for Women of the World, Bilingual Review: Revista Bilingüe, 25th Anniversary Issue, Quarry West Anthology, In Celebration of the Muse Anthology, Cruzando Puentes: Antología de Literatura Latina, Yellow Medicine Review, Puentes, Ventana Abierta, Camino Real,  Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en  Letras y Cambio Social, Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She co-edited In Xochitl, In Cuícatl, a bilingual poetry anthology of Chicanx/Latinx poetry, published in 2021 in Madrid, Spain, (includes more than 60 poets) and another multigenre Latinx women’s anthology Indomitable/Indomables, forthcoming, with San Diego State University Press.  Her latest collection ¿How Many Indians Can We Be? ¿Cuántos indios podemos ser? was  published with Flowersong Press in 2022. 

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This event is co-sponsored by the office of Instructionally Related Activities, the Center for Community Engagement, and Faculty Affairs, Success, and Equity.