Sandra Cisneros Symposium

Symposium on the Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros

Friday, November 20, 2026

12:30 - 4:30 p.m.

This is the third Symposium on the Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros to be held at Texas State University, an event celebrating original research on the internationally celebrated writer

PROGRAM INFO

• Keynote lecture, “¡A toda máquina! Sandra Cisneros, Mexican Movies, and the Melodramas of Everyday Life,” by Professor Richard T. Rodríguez (UC Riverside)
• Poetry reading by Bianca Pérez
• Music by Joaquín Frazier
• Scholarly roundtable including Dr. Sara A. Ramirez (TXST), Dr. Lea Colchado (Texas A&M San Antonio), Dr. Carolina Núñez Puente (Universidade de Coruña, España), and Dr. Adrianna Santos (Texas A&M San Antonio)
• Presentations of original, archival research by undergraduate students from TXST

TXST is home to The Sandra Cisneros Papers, which are permanently housed at The Wittliff Collections in Alkek Library, where the event will take place

SPONSORS

The Department of English, the Wittliff Collections, the Center for the Study of the Southwest, the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the College of Liberal Arts, the Honors College, and the Idea Center, 

MORE INFO

This event is free and open to the public. If you require accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact (512) 245-2163 at least 72 hours in advance of the event.

For questions about the event, contact Dr. Geneva Gano, gmg65@txstate.edu

SPEAKER BIO

Richard T. Rodríguez is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (2009) and A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (2022), both published by Duke University Press. The author of numerous articles about Latinx cultural expression and politics, he is currently working on two books as well as finishing a collection of poems about his time living in Chicago.