Shreveport Branch Meeting Notice – Dr. Sam Cannon talking about Latin America and US History and Relations with Meal to Follow

Dr. Sam Cannon was born, raised, and home-schooled here in Shreveport, Louisiana. At the age of 19 he moved to Mexico City for several years. Upon returning to Shreveport, he formally studied Spanish at BPCC and LSUS. Afterwards, he pursued graduate degrees in Latin American & Iberian Literatures, Cultures, and Languages from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Dr. Cannon is an Associate Professor of Spanish at LSUS. His research explores popular culture representations of political violence, as well as artistic depictions of justice in Latin American literature, cinema, and comic books. Recently, he edited and published the graphic novel memoire “Clandestine Stories: Two Siblings Under Dictatorship in Chile” by Ariel & Sol Rojas Lizana. Dr. Cannon teaches courses on the Spanish language, Latin American literatures and cultures, sequential art, Latin American cinema, and Latin American comics and graphic novels. His current research is focused on Surrealist, Esoteric, and Mystic artists from Chile and Mexico since the beginning of WWII through the present and their relationship to US pop­culture in the 1960s-1970s.