Seventh Annual 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures

March 22-24, 2001
Keynote Speakers:

   Jean-Michel Maulpoix of Université de Paris X Nanterre
 

Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at the Université de Paris X,  Monsieur Maulpoix is the author of such critical works as La poésie comme l'amour, La poésie malgré tout  and Du lyrisme.  His most recent work, L’Instinct de ciel,  is a book of poetic prose, which was published with Mercure in March 2000.  Monsieur Maulpoix also chairs the literary and critical review Le Nouveau Receuil.


   Rolena Adorno of Yale University

Professor Adorno is the author of Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru  and Cronista y príncipe:  La obra de don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. Professor Adorno is also the editor of From Oral to Written Expression: Native Andean Chronicles of the Early Colonial Period.  Her most recent work includes co-authoring Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. She is currently working on studies of Bartolomé de las Casas and the Spanish New World in the narrative imagination of the Americas.


   Renato Assumpção Faria

Cultural Counselor of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
 

Sponsored by:
The Graduate Romance Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Consulate of France in Atlanta, the Institute for Latin American Studies, the Department of English, Study Abroad at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Student Congress of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Graduate and Professional Student Organization of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Department of Comparative Literatures, the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Research Services, and the University Center for International Studies
 

Conference Coordinators:
Amy McNichols (Spanish), Sarah Glasco (French) and Elisabeth Marie (Portuguese and Italian)
 

Special Recognition is given to the following individuals and their offices for their assistance and support:
Dr. Frank Domínguez and the Department of Romance Languages, the Graduate Romance Association
 

Thanks is given to the following individuals and organizations for their help:
Mary Jones, Tom Smither, Jerry Spiller, Erica Eisdorfer and the Bull’s Head Bookstore, Ruth Thompson and the Reservations Office at the Carolina Student Union; Beverly Ingram at the Carolina Inn; the Hampton Inn and Suites; Marcelle Johnson and Marcel's Catering, and the Modern Language Association

We would also like to thank the many panel organizers, chairs, and participants from the past six years, and the graduate students and faculty of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures who have always volunteered to help when it was needed.