Faculty Talk: Introducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture [María Acosta Cruz]
Type
Video
Date
4-9-2025
Description
Clark University faculty member María Acosta Cruz (Language, Literature, and Culture) discusses her new book, Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture. In it, she explores Puerto Rico’s national culture through a complex web of references to the disasters that the nation has suffered, and to how the environment has been portrayed. This event took place April 9, 2025.
Sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture at Clark University
Duration
00:56:59
Genre
event
Keywords
Puerto Rico, cultural studies, ecocriticism
Recommended Citation
Clark University, "Faculty Talk: Introducing Disaster Nation: An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture [María Acosta Cruz]" (2025). Clark University Video Archive. 357.
https://commons.clarku.edu/videoarchive/357
