Humanities in the Village, ft. Gisela Heffes & Lysley Tenorio: CROCODILES..

Mon Oct 27 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-04:00

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Humanities in the Village, ft. Gisela Heffes & Lysley Tenorio: CROCODILES..
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Presenting Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins
About this Event

Presenting Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible.

For this October edition, we are thrilled to welcome Gisela Heffes in celebration of her new novel CROCODILES AT NIGHT, out this year from Deep Vellum Press. Lysley Tenorio will join Heffes in conversation about this philosophical, heartfelt story exploring familial ties, memories and images of places that are no longer the same, the vagaries of the medical system, and social critique. It presents an unfeigned, excruciating view of death and how it affects all who experience it.

Whether it's your first time at the series or you've been attending for years, we hope you'll join us to usher this exciting new book into the world!

Order CROCODILES AT NIGHT here

Gisela Heffes is a Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Johns Hopkins University as well as a writer, ecocritic, and public intellectual with a particular focus on literature, media, and the environment in Latin America. She is the author of several novels, including Ischia (Deep Vellum, 2023). She currently resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Lysley Tenorio is the author of Monstress, named a book of the year by The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Son of Good Fortune, winner of the New American Voices Award from the Institute for Immigration Research. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and NPR, and has been adapted for the stage in San Francisco and New York City. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Rome Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.

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