Jose Ignacio Badenes, SJ, the Donald I. MacLean Chair at St. Joseph University will present the lecture “Interpreting Identities: Rubén Darío and Federico García Lorca read Walt Whitman” on Tuesday, November 15 at 6 p.m. in the Redmond Room, St. Joseph Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the College’s Interdisciplinary Honors Program. Badenes will focus on identity issues explored by all three poets, especially issues of national/social identity and gender/sexual identity. He will explore the poems that Dario and Lorca write about Whitman, and how they use what Whitman represents to reflect their own preoccupations regarding gender-sexuality construction and nation-building. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kathy Duffy, SSJ, Ph.D. at 215.248.7197 or email kduffy@chc.edu.
