Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez Awarded Symposium's 2023 Harold G. Jones Award for Best Essay

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez for being awarded Symposium's 2023 Harold G. Jones Award for the best essay published in the journal. Vázquez Enríquez’s essay, “Forecasting Extinction at the Guatemalan Border Forests: El mundo como flor y como invento by Mario Payeras” examines "two short stories written by Guatemalan author Mario Payeras, both included in the collection El mundo como flor y como invento. Through the portrayal of the connections between the environmental vibrancy of the Guatemalan northern highlands and the ongoing presence of colonizing frameworks, the author identifies the key elements that, in the context of a porous border delimitation, participate in the endangerment of the human and the nonhuman alike."

In recognition of the award, Vázquez Enríquez was invited to give a talk at Syracuse University, which can be viewed here

Symposium is a quarterly journal of criticism in modern literatures originating in languages other than English. Founded in 1946, the journal is housed in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and is published by Taylor & Francis/Routledge. Symposium features research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative or interdisciplinary studies. The journal publishes unsolicited essays as well as periodic special issues. Most issues include reviews of recent critical monographs in modern literatures. Although primarily in English, issues can include discussions of works in the original language. Symposium is a member journal of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. 

Symposium's Harold G. Jones Award for Best Essay is made possible by the generosity and vision of former editorial board member Harold G. Jones, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, and has been awarded annually since 2018. You can read more about the award here