Julie Ward is Assistant Professor of 20^th and 21^st-century Latin American Literature at the University of Oklahoma. Her book A Shared Truth: The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol is forthcoming with the University of Pittsburgh Press in April 2019.

Her talk is part of "The Hemispheric Americas Lectures Series", which  is sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese. For more information, please contact Sarah J. Townsend at sjt18@psu.edu