Department of English

• Friday, February 27, 2026 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

FBH Graduate Student Lounge (room 330)

Latinx Methods and the Politics of Praxis suggests that the central concepts of Latinx studies are the result of what we do with them and to them—the result of our methods—even as the concepts might seem to dictate those actions instead. While previous volumes have focused on the important keywords of the field (namely the “who” and the “what”), this project assembles scholars, artists, and organizers from across disciplines to query the “how” of Latinx Studies. 

Tommy Conners is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida where he writes and teaches about race, sexuality, and literature. He is a member of the United Faculty of Florida and is affiliate faculty with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. His first book, Colorblind Aesthetics in Latinx Literature and Law, will come out with NYU Press next year, and Latinx Methods and the Politics of Praxis, a volume he is co-editing, is forthcoming with Duke UP. 

Alhelí Harvey is the CLALS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD from the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been published in the peer reviewed Journal of Urban History (“Other Worlds Just Like This One: Enchantment at Meow Wolf’s ‘House of Eternal Return’”), and public venues such as  Intervenxions, Zocalo Public Square, and Public Books. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Latinx and AmLit Working Groups in the Department of English, as well as the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

Please email natreyes@sas.upenn.edu for the pre-circulated reading.