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Associate Professor of Spanish Barbara Riess co-organized an international conference in Havana, Cuba on November 10-15 celebrating the bicentennial of Cuban/Spanish writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, author of what’s become known as the Cuban Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Riess organized the event with her colleague Zaida Capote at the Cuban Institute of Literature and Linguistics and served as the liaison to foster unprecedented transnational collaboration between the institute and the Asociación Internacional de Cultura y Literatura Femenina Hispanica, a U.S.-based professional organization for the study of women’s cultural production in Spain and Latin America. Her presentation paper, “Es mucho hombre esa mujer’: género y cuerpo en la prosa cubana femenina de los ’60 y ’70” [She’s Quite a Man, that Lady: Gender and Body in Cuban Women’s Prose from the Sixties and Seventies], is under review for publication.