Kristin Pitt presents her research on Mariana Enriquez

On November 11, Kristin Pitt, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, presented her research on literary representations of feminicide in talk entitled “Burning Even Ourselves: Self-Immolation in Mariana Enriquez’s ‘Things We Lost In The Fire'” as part of the panel “Transnational Feminist Approaches to Violence Against Women” at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference.

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