The FACC will have Dr. Irene Blea on Zoom, Dec. 12, 10:00 a.m., PST(1:00 a.m. EST; 12:00 CST; 11:00 a.m. MST). The link to this presentation will be sent a couple of days before the event or if you wish to receive an invitation, please contact gsha.vp@gshaa.org and note the event.
Dr. Irene Blea is an award winning and internationally known author, scholar and poetess who draws from her family and personal history, plus her many years as a sociological researcher. She will reveal her journey from a northern New Mexico settlement to Colorado and why it is the focus of her next book, Erené with Wolf Medicine.
The former Puebloan will discuss how she writes, what she writes, and the underlying meaning of her work. The activist scholar and poet has evolved from writing with pencil, a pen, typewriter, and computer to embrace an Internet presence on blogs, Facebook, countless Zoom sessions, and Webinars.
Dr. Blea’s novel, Daughters of the West Mesa, is based on the discovery of 11 women and an unborn fetus in the desert west of Albuquerque. The novel was awarded the Best of Albuquerque in 1915.
She is the author of much poetry, numerous articles, the Suzanna trilogy, and 7 textbooks on women and race relations. Blea taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Metropolitan State College-Denver, as well as at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She retired as a Tenured Full Professor and Chairperson of Mexican American Studies at California State University-Los Angeles. Her work is best known for the style in which characters, including the environment and politics, are utilized in her writing. Dr. Irene Blea is frequently referred to as the Chicana novelist of these times.
