Cynthia Woods Mitchell Lecture Series | Esther Gabara

Wednesday, October 13, 2025

1pm – 3pm

Location
UH School of Art, FA 110

FREE and open to the public

Description

Esther Gabara is professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the author of two monographs: Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2008), and Non-Literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2022). She is currently working on a book manuscript, “The Bermuda Triangle of Art: Museums, Art Fairs, and Banks, or, A Manifesto for the Rights of Potatoes and Chocolate, and Manual for the Emerging Artist.”

The School of Art Cynthia Woods Mitchell Lecture Series is supported by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.