Eleanor Paynter is a scholar, teacher, poet, and Assistant Professor of Italian, migration, and global media in the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon. She discusses her book "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present"(https://www.ucpress.edu/books/emergency-in-transit/paper), her teaching, and what attracted her to the UO.
The chapbook on tanks she mentioned is out of print, but a related piece is still up here at Diagram https://thediagram.com/16_2/paynter.html
Another chapbook is here: https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/oceano-eleanor-paynter
Here's the podcast I hosted at Cornell: https://open.spotify.com/show/1uu5mmNxbVdJUJgZwXAeK4
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Christopher Chávez is the Carolyn S. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising and the director of the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies at the University of Oregon. He discusses his new book "Isle of Rum: Havana Club, Culutral Mediation and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity." (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/isle-of-rum/9781978838833/)
