June 4
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3:00 PM
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5:00 PM
CMT
As part of the activities of the Rómulo Gallegos Free Chair Research Unit, directed by researcher Rosa Elena Pérez Mendoza, the lecture "Literature and Globalization: The Mexican Novel" will be presented by Héctor Jaimes, PhD in Latin American Literature and Professor at the University of North Carolina, where he has also served as Director of the Study Abroad Program in both Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Cantabria, Spain. He has published the books *The Mexican Novel in Times of Rupture: At the Intersection of Globalization and Postmodernism* (2025), *Philosophy of Mexican Muralism: Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros* (2012), and *The Rewriting of History in the Latin American Essay* (2001). He has edited several books and written numerous articles in indexed journals and contributed chapters to various books. He has also been a speaker in Spain, Mexico, France, Greece, Guatemala, Argentina, Canada, Germany and Venezuela.
