The Latina/o Faculty and Staff Association at California State University, Fresno begins its fall 2010 speaker series at noon Sept. 15 with author and creative writing professor Alex Espinoza’s “Coyote.”

Espinoza described his topic as a meditation on the critical role of education in developing creative and scholarly voices.

“Drawing inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s classic essay, I argue that Latina/o writers, artists and scholars need ‘rooms of their own’ to grow, learn, and create,” Espinoza said, but they’re threatened by “institutional apathy, economic turmoil and political resistance.”

Series presentations are noon-1 p.m. in the Gottschalk’s Gallery (Room 192) of the Peters Business Building. All are free and open to the public.

The series’ other dates are:

  • Oct. 20 – Dr. Shane Moreman, an associate professor of communication.
  • Nov. 17 – Dr. Cristina Herrera, an assistant professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies.
  • Dec. 1 – Dr. Maria-Aparecida Lopes, an assistant professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies.

For more information, visit www.fresnostatelfsa.info.