Dear Colleagues:
I hope this message finds you all well at this very busy time of the year. For those of you teaching this term, I hope you can take a break from grading final exams long enough to check out the Fall 2019 SNAP Bulletin. As with the first installment, this one features some fascinating contributions that showcase the innovative approaches SNAP members are taking in their scholarship.
The Board of Directors welcomed Mayte Green-Mercado (Rutgers University-Newark) this fall. Mayte replaces Linda Gale Jones (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) on the board. During her time on the board, Linda helped organize SNAP panels at the ASPHS meeting (Barcelona, 2019), Chaired a panel at the Art and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean conference (Bard Graduate Center, 2016), and selflessly contributed her time, wisdom, and expertise to the board's meetings. Thank you, Linda - we look forward to many future collaborations!
Enjoy the second issue of the SNAP Bulletin, and do consider contributing snapshots of your own research to future editions.
All best wishes,
Andrew
SNAP is also pleased to announce the publication of Cristián Ricci’s new book, New Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe:
“New Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe captures the experience in writing of a fast growing number of individuals belonging to migrant communities in Europe. The book follows attempts to transform postcolonial literary studies into a comparative, translingual, and supranational project. Cristián H. Ricci frames Moroccan literature written in European languages within the ampler context of borderland studies. The author addresses the realm of a literature that has been practically absent from the field of postcolonial literary studies (i.e. Neerlandophone or Gay Muslim literature). The book also converses with other minor literatures and theories from Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Asians and Latino/as in the Americas that combine histories of colonization, labor migration, and enforced exile.”