Dr. Larissa M. Mercado-López, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department professor and chair, will discuss her newly-released book, “The Selena Reader: Remembering the Queen of Tejano,” 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16 at the Library Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery.
Co-editor Dr. Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, a Texas A&M-Corpus Christi English associate professor, will also discuss the life and impact of the book’s focus, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, a cherished figure in Mexican American popular culture and music, who would have turned 55 that day.
The event is free and open to the public.
The book features essays, short stories, poems and memoirs from creative writers and scholars about Quintanilla-Pérez (1971-1995), who released five popular albums from 1989 through 1995.
Her final two albums, “Amor Prohibido” and “Dreaming of You,” are two of the highest-selling Latin albums in U.S. history, and led to a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She also won a Grammy Best Album Award in 1994 for her live album.
Mercado-López has served as an editor on prior anthologies on Latinx, Chicana/Latina and children’s literature, and the life and works of Chicana feminist and cultural and queer theory scholar, Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
