Session
1.1 Arts, Culture and the Teaching of Literature I - WLH - Room 117
Chair : Sheri Spaine Long, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Title 1: "Historia, violencia, e identidad en El reino de este
mundo de Alejo Carpentier"
Presenter: Camile Cruz Martes, University of Puerto Rico
Title 2: "Spanish Poets and Playwrights of Exile: Teaching Poetry
with Song and Drama with Visual Art"
Presenter: Susan Polansky, Carnegie Mellon University
Title 3: "Reading Medieval Iconography:The Story Behind the
Image"
Presenter: David Arbesú Fernández, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Session 1.2
Demographics Room 119 (session cancelled . See replacement )
Title 1:
To be announced
Presenter: Fernando Betancourt , Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs
Commission
Session 1.3
The Arts: Music, Song, Dance and
Literature - WLH - Room 011
Title
1: "Presencia de la mujer en la Revolución mejicana"
(The Arts: Music, Song, Dance and Literature)
Presenter: Olmanda Hernández, Brandeis University
Session 1.4
Lang. & Tech. WLH - Room 116
Title
1: "La comprensión del texto literario en el medio digital: retos de aprendizaje y evaluación"
Presenter: Juan Ramón de Arana, Ursinus College
Session 1.5
Caribbean Lit. - WLH - Room 002
La narrativa femenina en España y Latinoamérica
Chair: Estrella Cibreiro, College of the Holy Cross
Title 1:"De ángel del hogar a mujer moderna"
Presenter: Estrella Cibreiro, College of the Holy Cross
Title 2: "La lengua nómada de Zoe Valdés"
Presenter: Isabel Alvarez-Borland, College of the Holy Cross
Title 3: "Novela rosa en las primeras décadas del Franquismo: Una perspectiva de género"
Presenter: Francisca López, Bates College
Session 1.6
Lat.Am. Lit Identidad, nación y cultura: Puerto Rico - WLH - Room 001
Lat.Am. Lit Identidad, nación y cultura: Puerto Rico - WLH - Room 001
Chair: Elba D. Birmingham-Pokorny, Southern Arkansas University
Title 1: "El concepto de nación y el impacto de la cultura y la creatividad enRecuerdo Panamá de Luis Pulido-Ritter"
Presenter: Ivelisse Santiago-Stommes, Creighton University
Title 2: "La figura del travesti como metáfora de nación e identidad puertorriqueñaen la obra de Mayra Santos-Febres"
Presenter: Elba D. Birmingham-Pokorny
Title 3: "La (des)ubicación de la identidad en Pez de vidrio de Mayra Santos-Febres"
Presenter: Carmen Vidal-Lieberman, New Mexico Highlands University
Session 1.7
Lusophone World - WLH - Room 003
Title 1: "Vozes narrativas e envolvimento afectivo em Levantado do Chão"
Presenter: Leonor Simas-Almeida, Brown University
Title 2: "O humor na literatura Portuguesa - algumas considerações teóricas"
Presenter: Onésimo T. Almeida, Brown University
Session 1.8
FLES (K-8) WLH - Room 120
Title 1: "It pays off to think outside the Classsroom"
Presenter: Manuela Canales, Windsor Locks Public Schools,
Windsor Locks, CT Teresa Pina, South Elementary School, Windsor Locks
Session 1.9
Pedagogy AP & ( 9-12) - WLH - Room
009
Title 1: "The Spanish Connection: Language Study in a Learning Community Setting"
Presenter: Marilyn Kiss, Wagner College
Session 1.10
Peninsular WLH - Room 007
Contemporary Spanish Theater: Historical and Political Perspectives
Chair: Phyllis Zatlin, Rutgers University
Title 1: "Visiones y alucinaciones en El sueño de la razón y Cartas de amor a Stalin"
Presenter: Silvia Leiro, Rutgers University
Title 2: "Los desaparecidos y el poder: Una lectura de Tejas Verdes de Fermín Cabal"
Presenter: Asela L. Laguna-Díaz, Rutgers University
Title 3: "Translating Concha Romero's Un olor a ámbar"
Presenter: Patricia Santoro, St. Peter's College