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!
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.
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www.dartmouththoughtproject.com
A vibrant, diverse Living Learning Community of students committed to exploring ideas and cultures different from their own.
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