• 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Matthew Vollmer 

  Vollmer, Matthew (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-18)

  This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Kevin Moffett. Matthew Vollmer reads from his book Permanent Exhibit. Matthew Vollmer is the author of two collections of short ...
• 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Jason Ockert and Jerrod Schwarz 

  Ockert, Jason; Schwarz, Jerrod (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20)

  This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and two collections of short stories: Neighbors of Nothing and ...
• 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: John Capouya and Ben Montgomery 

  Montgomery, Ben; Capouya, John (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-15)

  This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. John Capouya reads from his book Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band. Ben Montgomery reads ...
• 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Keetje Kuipers 

  Kuipers, Keetje (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-17)

  This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Keetje Kuipers reads from her book of poetry All Its Charms. Writer and editor Keetje Kuipers (pronounced Kay-tcha ...
• 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Jehanne Dubrow 

  Dubrow, Jehanne (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-14)

  This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Sandra Beasley. Jehanne Dubrow reads from her book of poetry American Samizdat. Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven books of ...
• 2019 MFA Lectores Reading Series: Kristen Arnett 

  Arnett, Kristen (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-19)

  This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Novelist Kristen Arnett reads from her book Mostly Dead Things. Kristen Arnett is the NYT bestselling author of ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “The Geopolitical Consequences of the Spanish American War" with Denis Rey 

  Rey, Denis (The University of Tampa, 2019-07-03)
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “José Martí and the Nature of Cuban Independence” with John Tone 

  Tone, John (The University of Tampa, 2019-07-02)

  Cubans and Spaniards fought a particularly brutal war from 1895 to 1898 that left 45,288 dead Spanish soldiers and as many as 170,000 Cuban dead, the vast majority of them civilians. Disease produced almost all of the ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “José Martí in Tampa: 20 Documented Visits” with Emiliano J. Salcines 

  Salcines, Hon. Emiliano J. (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-24)

  The Honorable Emiliano J. Salcines, retired federal judge of the District Court of Appeals and highly-respected local historian, is responsible for meticulously documenting all the known visits by José Martí to Ybor City ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Key West’s Revolutionary Community, 1868-1898” with Gerald E. Poyo 

  Poyo, Gerald E. (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20)

  Almost from the moment of the outbreak of Cuba’s Ten Years War on October 10, 1868, Cubans began arriving in Key West to escape Spanish persecution. Within a year, an activist exile community formed that for thirty years ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “José Martí, New Yorker” with Lisandro Pérez 

  Pérez, Lisandro (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-21)

  José Martí lived most of his adult life in New York. This presentation places Martí in his New York milieu and identifies the ways in which the city influenced his life and work. From democratic culture, corruption, ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Ybor City Lives: Wars, Revolutions, Great Depression, Great Society, Urban Renewal, and Americanization” with Gary Mormino 

  Mormino, Gary (The University of Tampa, 2019-07-09)

  For more than four decades, my life has been intimately involved and intertwined with Ybor City. The enclave remains the most interesting place I have ever encountered. Upon arriving in 1977, I began interviewing elderly ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Jose Martí: Life and Works” with James López 

  López, James (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-24)

  This presentation will provide an integrated portrait of José Martí’s life and work in his historical and intellectual context, living on the edge of the two Americas, and of two epochs. Martí gave his life in the heroic ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “The Immigrant Worlds of Ybor City, 1886-1900” with Rodney Kite-Powell 

  Kite-Powell, Rodney (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-17)

  The session will focus on founding and early development of Tampa’s two cigar manufacturing Latin enclaves, Ybor City and West Tampa. The specific topics to be covered include the process by which Vicente Martinez Ybor ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Más que negro: The Anti-Racism of José Martí and the Afro-Cuban Community of Ybor City” with Susan Greenbaum 

  Greenbaum, Susan (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-19)

  Slavery and racism were crucial elements of the Cuban independence struggle, but the revolutionists struggled with internal contradictions. The 19th century Cuban poet/revolutionist, José Martí, was an ardent anti-racist. ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: "José Martí and Race in America” 

  Fountain, Anne (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-27)

  Martí’s time in the United States coincided with the aftermath of Reconstruction, a reliving of Civil War events, and a recounting of the efforts of U.S. abolitionists. Martí reported on brutal attacks against former ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: "José Martí and American Thinkers" with Anne Fountain 

  Fountain, Anne (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-27)

  José Martí was a thoughtful and well-informed reader of books, newspapers and articles that reflected the intellectual as well as the political pulse of the United States from 1880 to 1895. His knowledge of U.S. authors ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: "The Cultural World of the Cigar Worker" with Kendra Dworkin 

  Dworkin, Kendra; Dworkin y Méndez, Kenya (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-18)

  Starting in the mid-1880s and becoming fully effective by the 1930s, the “curriculum of culture” Tampa’s Latin immigrant, cigar-making enclaves circulated in the spaces they and residents occupied regularly—the cigar ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “The Spanish-American War and Semi-Independence I and II” with Michael Conniff 

  Conniff, Michael (The University of Tampa, 2019-07-01)

  Three themes begin this presentation: U.S. desires to annex Cuba, Cubans’ efforts to win independence from Spain, and longstanding economic and cultural ties between Cuba and the United States. José Martí’s efforts to ...
• 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Tampa’s Response to José Martí” with Gabriel Cartaya 

  Cartaya, Gabriel (The University of Tampa, 2019-06-25)

  José Martí’s first visit to Tampa in November 1891 surpassed his expectations and set in motion the process that would lead to the creation of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, an organization that was able to unite the ...

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