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October 07, 2024

University of Houston Professor Dedicates Life to Preserving Latino Works

When it comes to Latino and Hispanic culture, Gabriela Baeza-Ventura can find meaning in the seemingly mundane. Baeza is associate professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston, but she also serves as director of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, which aims to preserve literary works from Latino authors that were published from colonial times up until 1980.

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