Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #3

Monica Huerta (English, American Studies), author of Magical Habits, will host Personal Limits, a virtual conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amid overlapping crises.

In this third session, Huerta will speak with Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Classics), a scholar of the Middle Roman Republic who wrote the memoir Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. Huerta’s forthcoming book is The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism.

Register for the livestream here.

Personal Limits is a collaboration among Labyrinth Books, the Princeton Public Library, and Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Lewis Center for the Arts, and English Department.

2021–22

October 13, 2021 at 5:30 pm
Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre, co-authors of The Ferrante Letters

November 11, 2021 at 6 pm
Lili Loofbourow, staff writer at Slate

December 8, 2021 at 6 pm
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, author of Undocumented

February 9, 2022 at 6 pm
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned, Dub: Finding Ceremony, and Tala Khanmalek, founding director of Sailing for Social Justice

March 30, 2022 at 6 pm
Yomaira Figueroa-Vázquez, author of Decolonizing Diasporas, and Tao Leigh Goffe, founder of Dark Laboratory

April 8, 2022 at 6 pm
Namwali Serpell, author of The Old Drift