Tuesday, April 26th at 5:30PM Wheeler 2nd Floor Common Room Dinner with Dean Rebecca Biron Rebecca Biron is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and serves as Dean of Dartmouth College. Her research and teaching interests include Latin American literary and cultural studies, literary theory, gender studies, and Mexican cultural criticism. She has published widely on the relationship between narrative and violence as it pertains to masculinity, Latin American urban history, and Mexican literature and film. She is the author of Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams and Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20th-Century Latin America, and editor of City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America. As Dean of the College, Biron is the senior officer responsible for undergraduate academic life at Dartmouth. Her role includes leadership of the College's new residential house communities. She provides direction on student inclusivity and diversity issues and strategic planning on admissions and financial aid. In her administrative position, as she explains it, Dean Biron pays close attention to "narratives' power to impose on people and also to free them to create new meanings/experiences." Come learn about Dean Biron's administrative work and her perspective on the future of Dartmouth! RSVP to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Organized by the Thought Project Living-Learning Community and sponsored by OPAL. The Thought Project is a Living Learning Community in Wheeler Hall. Each week, we host a Food for Thought dinner with a faculty member and a variety of social events. Visit our website at www.dartmouththoughtproject.com<http://www.dartmouththoughtproject.com/>. [http://static1.squarespace.com/static/552c9dade4b0c4575fdcad9e/t/552cbb2ce4b0c2f8a381f3c6/1459010975870/?format=1000w]<http://www.dartmouththoughtproject.com/> The Thought Project<http://www.dartmouththoughtproject.com/> www.dartmouththoughtproject.com<http://www.dartmouththoughtproject.com> A vibrant, diverse Living Learning Community of students committed to exploring ideas and cultures different from their own.