Monday, December 3, 2018

Dr/ Amador's papers, 2019

Dr. Amador will be attending the following Conferences:

1.   Her paper, “Exploration of the Self: Angelina Beloff and Frida Kahlo” was accepted at the XXIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos (Santiago, Chile, March 6-8, 2019). 



2. Her paper “The Body as a Marker: Cristina Garcia and Judith Ortiz Cofer” has been accepted by the Feministas Unidas panel at Northeast Modern Languages Association in 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Survey of Hispanic Lit./Dr. Aponte's Class. La vida en sueño by Calderón de la Barca

Last Thursday, Dr. Aponte-Olivieri "Survey of the Literature of Spain" class dramatized a number of selected scenes from Calderón de la Barca's play "La vida es sueño". Our students fully embraced the joys and challenges of interpreting -- critically and dramatically-- this Baroque text in all of its richness and complexity. See the class in action with this set of pictures from the dramatization.

The cast is as follows: 








JORNADA I
      Escena 2            Segismundo: Josué Muñoz-Lara
                                   Rosaura: Nuvia Velasquez
                                  Clarín: Priscilla Smith
     Escena 5             Astolfo: Arianna Thomas
                                  Estrella: Zullimar Adamés
JORNADA II
     Escena 14           Astolfo: Salma Aguilar
                                  Rosaura: Justin Bergson
      Escena 19          Segismundo: Iván Sakkal
JORNADA III
      Escena 2           Soldado 1: Priscilla Smith
                                  Clarín: Mariana Steinbuch
                                  Soldado 2: Josué Muñoz-Lara
                                  Todos: Justin Bergson
       Escena 3           Soldado 1: Justin Bergson
                                  Segismundo: Matthew Petrouskie
                                  Clarín: Iván Sakkal
                                  Soldado 2: Salma Aguilar
                                  Voces: Nuvia Velasquez
                                  Todos: Estefanía Martínez