Topic: Erasing the Noose: The (Lack of) Public Memory Surrounding Mexican Lynchings
Biography:
James Chase Sanchez is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Middlebury College and comes here after living in Texas all of his life. His research interests are in cultural and racial rhetorics, public memory, and writing assessment, and his research has appeared or is forthcoming in College Composition and Communication, Present Tense, Writing Program Administration, and Pedagogy. Sanchez recently produced a film titled Man on Fire, which stems from his dissertation project. This documentary investigates why an elderly, white minister self-immolated in Sanchez’s hometown of Grand Saline, Texas in 2014 and attempts to uncover the racial history of this town.