Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, one of the most accredited representatives of current North American poetry, will recite her work at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) on April 6 in Room 5 of the Atzavares Building on the Elche Campus. The activity begins at 9:30 a.m., and is being organized by the Area of US Hispanic Studies, part of the Miguel Hernández Chair, in collaboration with the vice rectorates for International Relations and Culture and University Extension.

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs has a PhD from Stanford University and is an associate professor of Modern Languages and Women Studies at Seattle University. In addition to extensive research activity, Gabriella Gutiérrez is author and editor of several publications rooted in Chicano poetry, a term of identity that refers to persons with Mexican heritage residing in the United States. Within contemporary North American literature, this current has its foremost exponent in the figure of Texas poet, Tino Villanueva.

Over the last fifty years, the Chicano population has contributed significantly to enriching North American culture by contributing their Hispanic American heritage and creative talents to the diverse and multicultural movement within that country. In this context, contributions from Chicano writers and poets such as Gabriella Gutiérrez have been fundamental to the cultural, literary, and linguistic decentralization of the United States. Today, we cannot talk about American culture and literature being only Anglo Saxon in nature; words are also being written, sung, and represented in Spanish by Hispanic American writers, musicians, and dramatists. The writing by Gabriella Gutiérrez manifests itself expressively, filled with nuance, within what has been called the double consciousness and double sensitivity, in a country where more than 50 million Hispanic Americans currently reside.