Cisneros to deliver Galarza Lecture
Writer Sandra Cisneros, author of the widely celebrated The House on Mango Street and other fiction, essays and poetry, will deliver the 21st annual Ernesto Galarza Commemorative Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 4, in Kresge Auditorium.
Cisneros is known as one of the first Mexican American writers to bring the perspective of Chicana women into the literary mainstream. She is the recipient of many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Texas Medal of the Arts.
Doors to the lecture will open at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the lecture is free for holders of Stanford University identification (SUID). If space is available, members of the general public will be admitted to the lecture for a $20 charge, beginning at 6:45 p.m.
Ticket holders to the Chicano/Latino Community Awards Banquet at 4:30 p.m. that afternoon in Tresidder Memorial Union will be given admission to Cisneros' lecture. Banquet tickets are $5 for students and $15 for faculty, staff and alumni. Awards banquet ticket information is available at 723-2089 or by contacting Monica Henestroza at monica.henestroza@stanford.edu.
Cisneros' visit is funded by sponsors including the ASSU Speakers Bureau, El Centro Chicano, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Chicana/o Studies Program and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.