DIANA TAYLOR
Department of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 6th floor
New York, N.Y. 10003
Tel: 212 998 1620
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, New York University
Chair, Performance Studies, NYU, 1997-
Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, 1997-
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College
Chair, Comparative Literature, 1995-1997
Visiting Professor of Spanish & Performance Studies, NYU, Fall, 1995, Fall 1996
Co-Chair, Women's Studies Program, Dartmouth College, 1993-1995
Co-Director, Institute For Women and Social Change, Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth, 1993-97
Resident Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, Univ. of California, Irvine, Fall, 1990.
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth, 1989/90.
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1982-3.
Lecturer, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Washington, 1981-82
Instructor, Dept. of Dramatic Arts, Nacional University of Mexico, 1979-81
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Washington
Specialization: Hispanic Drama/Modern Drama, 1974-81
M.A. Letras Modernas (Comparative Literature), National University of Mexico, 1972-74
Certificat d'Etudes Superieures, Université Aix-Marseille, 1971-1972
B.A. Creative Writing, University of the Americas, Mexico, 1968-71.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Book Awards:
New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) Best Book Award for Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America, 1992.
Joe E. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Honorable Mention for Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America, 1992.
Research Awards:
Rockefeller Foundation funding for "Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics."
2000-2003, $240,000
Ford Foundation, continued funding for "Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics." 2000-2003. $650,000.
Ford Foundation, planning grant for "Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics," a consortium of institutions, cultural institutions, scholars, artists and students. 1998-2000. $150,000.
Salzburg Seminar Presidential Fellow, 1996.
Invited Scholar: Seminario Teórico Internacional, "Teatro en el fin de siglo." Part of "Yuyachkani 25th anniversary celebration, Peru. July, 1996.
Director (with Juan Villegas) of University of California Humanities Research Institute residence program: Theatrical Transculturation. Fall term, 1990.
Participant: Dartmouth Humanities Institute, War and Gender, with resident scholar Klaus Theweleit (Male Fantasies), Spring term, 1990.
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Award funding travel and research in Argentina, Summer 1990.
Faculty Fellowship, Dartmouth College, Fall, 1986.
Fellowship, School of Criticism and Literary Theory, Summer, 1986, Dartmouth College.
Mellon Foundation: Course Development for Interdisciplinary Studies: Funding to develop and teach RITUAL, MAGIC AND THE THEATRE, for "Ideas that shaped the Twentieth Century," Dartmouth College, Summer, 1986 and THEATRE, RITES AND SOCIAL CRISIS, 1987.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's 'Dirty War'. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
EDITED BOOKS:
Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (co-edited with Roselyn Costantino), special issue, Women & Performance, Issue 22, 11:2, 2000.
Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich, (co-edited with Victoria Martinez), forthcoming, Bucknell University Press. Forthcoming, 2001.
The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (co-editor with Annelise Orleck and Alexis Jetter). Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.
Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality in Latin/o America (co-editor, with Juan Villegas). Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
The Representation of Otherness in Chicano and Latin American Theatre and Film (co-editor, with Juan Villegas). Special Monographic Issue Gestos, 1991.
En busca de una imagen: Ensayos sobre el teatro de Griselda Gambaro y José Triana (editor). Ottawa: Girol Books, 1989.
Fernando Arrabal: El arquitecto y el emperador de asiria y Cementerio de automoviles (editor). Cátedra, Madrid, 1984.
ARTICLES IN BOOKS:
"¿De qué se reí Diana Raznovich?" Introduction to Diana Raznovich: Las Obras. Madrid: Casa de Américas, 2001.
"Staging Social Memory: Yuyachkani." Performance and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Adrian Kerr and Patruick Campbell. London: Routledge, 2001.
"Staging Social Memory." The Color of Theater: Race, Ethnicity and Contemporary Performance." Ed. Roberta Uno. London: Athlone, 2001.
"What is Diana Raznovich Laughing About?" Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform. Ed. Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino. Special Issue: Women & Performance, Issue 22, 11:2, 2000
Yuyachkani: Remembering Community." Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-based Performance. Ed. Susan Chandler Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press. Forthcoming.
"Diana: A Study in Hauntology." Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief.. Ed. Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg. London: Routledge, 1999.
"Brecht and Latin America's 'Theatre of Revolution.'" Brecht Sourcebook. Ed. Carol Martin and Henry Bial. New York: Routledge, 1999.
"Fighting Fire with Frivolity: Diana Raznovich's Defiant Acts." Performance, Pathos, Política de los Sexos. Ed. Heidrun Adler and Kati Rottger. Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1999.
"Damnable Iteration: The Traps of Political Spectacle." The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Ed. Doris Sommer. Durham: Duke University Press. 1999.
"Making a Spectacle: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." Radical Street Theatre. Edited Jan Cohen-Cruz, Routledge, 1998.
"Border Watching" in The Ends of Performance ed. Peggy Phelan and Jill Lang, NY: NYU Press, 1998.
"Theatre & Terrorism" in Crucibles of Theatre. Ed. Janelle Reinelt. Ann Arbor: Michigan U.P.,1996.
"Griselda Gambaro and Argentina's Drama of Disappearance" in Witnessing a Life. Ed. Marjorie Agosin. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
"Staging Argentine Feminism: The Theatre of Diana Raznovich." Latin American Women Dramatists: Theatre, Texts, and Theories, Ed. Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas, Indiana University Press, 1998.
"Performing Motherhood: The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo." The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (co-editor with Annelise Orleck and Alexis Jetter). Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.
"The War on Poor Mothers and Children." (with Annelise Orleck and Alexis Jetter), Populations at Risk in America. Ed. George Demko and Michael C. Jackson. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
"Emilio Carballido: La década de los setenta." Teatro latinoamericano de los '70. ed. Osvaldo Pellettieri, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 1995.
"Negotiating Performance: Opening Remarks." Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality in Latin/o America. Ed. Taylor and Villegas. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
"Performing Gender/ Performing Politics: The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo." Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality in Latin/o America. Ed. Taylor and Villegas. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
"Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Terror and Argentina's "Dirty War." Gendering War Talk. Ed. Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
"¿Envidia del pene o violencia doméstica? El bigote y La pistola de Sabina Berman." Piezas latinoamericanas en un acto. Edición de María Mercedes Jaramillo. Colombia: Universidad de Antioquía, 1997.
"Violent Displays: Griselda Gambaro and Argentina's Drama of Disappearance." Afterward to Information for Foreigners: Three Plays by Griselda Gambaro. Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz. Northwestern University Press, 1992.
"Introduction." The Representation of Otherness in Chicano and Latin American Theatre and Film. Gestos, Spring, 1991.
"Transculturating Transculturation." Interculturalism and Performance: Writings from PAJ. Ed. Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta. New York: Performance Arts Journal Publications, Spring, 1991.
"Violencia y (re)creación: La noche de los asesinos de José Triana." En busca de una imagen: Ensayos sobre el teatro de Griselda Gambaro y José Triana. Ed. Diana Taylor. Ottawa: Girol Books, 1989.
"Paradigmas de crisis: La obra dramática de Griselda Gambaro." En busca de una imagen: Ensayos sobre el teatro de Griselda Gambaro y José Triana. Ed. Diana Taylor. Ottawa: Girol Books,1989.
ARTICLES:
"El espectáculo de la memoria." Teatro al sur (Argentina),
"Denise Stoklos: Las políticas de lo descifrable." Documenta (Mexico: CITRU), May 2000, pg. 138-157.
"The Politics of Indecipherability: Denise Stoklos' 'Civil Disobedience.'" TDR, Spring, 2000.
"Dancing with Diana: A Study in Hauntology." TDR, Vol. 43/1 (T161), Spring 1999, pg 59-78.
"Mestizaje, Hybridity, and Transculturation." Belo Horizonte: ECUM publication, 1999.
"Atrocity, Memory and Representation." Belo Horizonte: ECUM publication, 1999.
"A Savage Performance: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco's Couple in the Cage." TDR, Vol 42/2, Summer, 1998.
"Damnable Iteration: The Traps of Political Spectacle." MLQ. 57:2(1996): 305-323.
"Gambaro's Antigona furiosa: Rewriting the Classics and Argentina's 'Dirty War,'" Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish American Theatre. ed. Frank Dauster, Bucknell Review, Fall, 1996, Vol 40:2.
"'High Aztec' or Performing Anthro Pop: Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe in El cielo de arriba." The Drama Review, 37/3 (Fall 1993): 142-152.
"Negotiating Performance." Latin American Theatre Review No. 26/2 (1993): 49-57.
"Fantasías masculinas: el teatro y los discursos autoritarios de la guerra." Teatro: Revista de estudios teatrales. 2 (Winter 1992): 147-156.
"Transculturating Transculturation." Performance Arts Journal No. 38 (Vol. XIII. No 2) 90-104.
"La política de la ambigüedad." Essays on José Triana. Ed. Kirsten Nigro, University of Colorado: Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, 1994.
"Framing the Revolution: Triana's La noche de los asesinos, Ceremonial de guerra." Latin American Theatre Review, 24/1 (Fall 1990): 81-92.
"Theatre & Terrorism: Griselda Gambaro's Information for Foreigners." Theatre Journal 42/2 (1990): 165-182.
"Destruir la evidencia: supresión como historia en La maestra de Buenaventura." Gestos, 10 (Fall1990): 91-99.
"Interiority and Exteriority in García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba. Estreno: Spring (1989): 19-22.
"Mad World, Mad Hope: Carballido's El día que se soltaron los leones." Latin American Theatre Review 20/2 (Spring 1987): 67-76.
"Art and Anti-Art in Egon Wolff's Flores de papel." Latin American Theatre Review 18/1 (Fall 1984): 65-68.
RELATED PUBLICATIONS:
Book Review. Johannes Birringer, Media& Performance Along the Border, Gestos15/30 (Nov) 2000, pg. 171-174.
Book Review. Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration & Popular Culture. Edited by David R. Maciel and Maria Herrera-Sobek. TDR. 43, No. 2 (T162) Summer, 1999. pg. 154-157.
Book Review: Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945 (ed. Gunter Berghaus) and Imperialism and Theatre: Essays on World Theatre, Drama, and Performance (ed J. Ellen Gainor). TDR, Vol 42/1 (T157), Spring, 1998, pg. 159-163.
Book Review: Adam Versenyi, Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics and Culture from Cortés to the 1980s. Latin American Theatre Review 28/2 (1995):170-172.
Book Review: Priscilla Melendez, La dramaturgia hispanoamericana contemporánea: teatralidad y autoconciencia. Latin American Theatre Review, 26/1 (1993): 196-198.
"The Representation of Otherness in Chicano and Latin American Theatre and Film." Theatre Review. Theatre Journal 43 (1991): 377-379.
Book Review: Ronald D. Burgess, The New Dramatists of Mexico: 1967-1985. South Atlantic Review 56/4 (1991): 134-136.
Book Review: Severino João Albuquerque, Violent Acts: A Study of Contemporary Latin American Theatre. Gestos, 1990.
Interview with José Triana. En busca de una imagen: Ensayos sobre el teatro de Griselda Gambaro y José Triana, Ottawa: Girol Books, 1988.
Book Review: Manuel Serrat, Anna o la venganza, Estreno, Fall (1990):
Book Review: Fernando Arrabal, Teatro Bufo, ed. Francisco Torres Monreal, Espasa Calpe, Estreno, Spring, 1990.
Book Review: Marina Pianca (editor), Diogenes: Anuario crítico del teatro Latinoamericano, Vols. I & II, Latin American Theatre Review, Spring 1988.
Translation: Enrique Buenaventura's The Menu, with Malempati and Woodward. Presented in Bilingual production, Primer Acto, Bentley Theatre, 1990.
Translation: Griselda Gambaro's Saying Yes, with Holly Silvestri. Translation used in Primer Acto's production, October 1987, Bentley Theatre, Hanover, N. H.
"Griselda Gambaro and José Triana at Dartmouth," Latin American Theatre Review 21/1 (Fall 1987): 121-122.
Contributions (1000 word entry on each of the following) Griselda Gambaro, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Emilio Carballido, Los siameses and Yo también hablo de la rosa) to International Dictionary of the Theatre. London: St. James Press. Forthcoming, 1991.
Consultant to Global Literacy (Latin American section), Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and K. A. Appiah. Institute for Multicultural Education. Duke University.
PUBLIC LECTURES:
"Performance, Psicoanálisis, y Memoria." Invited Lecture, NYU-Buenos Aires, April 2001.
"The DNA of Performance." Politics and Vision in Latin America, New School, April 2001.
"Political Hauntology: The DNA of Performance." Invited Lecture. Hartwick College, March 2001.
"Acts of Transfer." Cultural Agency in the Americas, sponsored by the SSRC, Centro Bartolomé de las Casas, Cuzco, Peru, January 2001.
"Latin American Performance: A Theoretical Overview." Invited Lecture, Universidad Autónoma de Neuvo León (Monterrey, Mexico), October, 2000.
"Staging Social Memory." Keynote Address, Intersection 2, U. Mass, September, 2000.
"The DNA of Performance." King Juan Carlos Center, NYU, September, 2000.
"Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics: Keynote Address." Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. UNI-RIO, Brazil, July 2000.
"Staging Social Memory." Public Seminar. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. UNI-RIO, Brazil, July 2000.
"El espectáculo de la memoria." Keynote Address. Sala Ricardo Rojas. University of Buenos Aires, May 2000.
"Theatre in Translation." Keynote Address. ARGENTORES. Buenos Aires, May 2000.
"Denise Stoklos and Latin American Performance." New World Theatre. Amherst, April 2000.
"Walter Mercado and the Latino Psychic Space." Latin American Studies Association, March, 2000.
"Pre-Conquest Performance: Reflections and Speculations." Performance Studies international, March, 2000.
"Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform." Performance Studies international, March, 2000.
"The Future of Latino Studies." Roundtable discussion. Performance Studies international, March, 2000.
"Walter Mercado: The Aesthetics of Latino Psychic Space." Invited Lecture and Colloquium, Center for the Humanities. Wesleyan University, November, 1999.
"Downloading Grief: Princess Diana and the Latino Muralists of the Lower East Side." Invited Lecture. Humanities Institute, SUNY, Stony Brook, October, 1999.
"The Death of Princess Diana." "Memory and Representation Conference." Minary Center, May, 1999.
"Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Indecipherability." Invited Lecture and Colloquium. University of Kansas. April, 1999.
"All we want is your soul: Latino Community Politics and Religion." Performance Studies international, University of Wales, April, 1999.
"Walter Mercado: The Performance of Latino Psychic Space." Distinguished Lecturer Series. Rutgers University, March, 1999.
"Performance and Politics: Hemispheric Institute." UNI-RIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March, 1999.
"Denise Stoklos, and Solo Performance In Latin America." Keynote Address. Denise Stoklos Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March, 1999.
"Introductory Remarks." Brecht Conference. NYU. October 1998.
"Latino Murals and Performance in New York." Plenary Session. LACASA Conference, Chicago, September 1998.
"Engendering the Enemy." LASA Conference, Chicago, September 1998.
"Diana Raznovich Defiant Acts." King Juan Carlos Center, NYU, September, 1998.
"Latin American Performance: The Politics of Transmission." Plenary Session. ARTS INTERNATIONAL Festival, Miami, September, 1998.
"Latin American Theatre and Performance." Plenary Session. ATHE Conference, San Antonio, August, 1998.
"Dancing with Diana." Women and Performance Conference, San Antonio, August, 1998.
"Mestizaje, Hybridity, and Transculturation." ECUM Conference, Keynote Address, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June, 1998.
"Atrocity, Memory and Representation." ECUM Conference, Keynote Address, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 1998.
"Opening Remarks." Spectacles of Religiosity Conference. NYU. April, 1998.
"The Politics of Witnessing." Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, NYU. March, 1998.
"The Death of Princess Diana: A Study in Hauntology," "Theatre of Death," Fourth Annual Performance Studies Conference. March, 1998
"Fantasizing Diana: A Study in Hauntology." University at California, Davis, October 1997.
"The Politics of Public Space: Introductory Remarks." Performance and Politics Conference, Dartmouth, May. 1997.
"MexChicano Performances." Harvard University, March 1997.
"A Savage Performance: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco's Couple in the Cage." University of California, Riverside, Feb, 1997.
"Theatre of Operations: Performance and Militarism in Argentina." ATHE, August, 1996.
"Theatre at the End of the 20th Century." Universidad de San Marcos, Peru, June, 1996.
"Performing Politics." Performance and Politics Conference, Harvard University, May 1996.
"A Savage Performance." Performance Studies Conference, Northwestern University, March 1996.
"Watching Violence." Keynote Address, 'Borderlands Conference.' Columbia University, March 1996.
"Performing Latinidad: The Art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña.' NECLAS, Oct., 1995.
"Performing the Post-Colonial Body: The Couple in the Cage." LASA, Sept., 1995.
Honors Dinner Address, Dartmouth, May, 1995.
"Writing and/as Social Action," Roundtable Discussion, Books and Other Acts Conference, Dartmouth, May 1995.
"Nation's a Drag," The Future of the Field Conference, NYU, March, 1995
"Crossing the Line: Nation-ness and International Dialogue." A Stage of Their Own Conference, Cincinnati, October 1994.
"Negotiating Performance," NECLAS Conference, Harvard University, September, 1994.
"Theatre, Torture, and the Culture of Terror." Latin American Studies Association, March, 1994.
"Writing Torture and Torture as Writing: The Culture of Terror in Argentina's 'Dirty War.'" The MultiCultural Center, UC Santa Barbara, January, 1994.
"Rewriting the Classics: Antigona Furiosa." Theatre Department, UC San Diego, January 1994.
"Performing Torture and Torture as Performance: The Culture of Terror in Argentina's 'Dirty War.'" NYU, Albert Schweitzer Lecture Series, December, 1993.
"Writing Torture and Torture as Writing." Humanities Forum, Dartmouth, Nov. 1993.
"The Culture of Torture." NECLAS Conference, Brown University, October 1993.
"Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo: History and Spectacle," Redefining Motherhood Conference, Dartmouth, Spring, 1993.
"Fantasías masculinas: Paso de dos de Pavlovsky." American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, sponsored by St Anselm College and University of New Hampshire, Bedford, N.H., Fall, 1992.
"Negotiating Performance." Keynote address, Latin American Theatre Today, University of Kansas, Spring, 1992.
"Spectacular Bodies." Invited Lecturer, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fall, 1991.
"Engendering Violence." American Theatre in Higher Education, Seattle, August, 1991.
"Deconstructing the Spectacle: Violence and Performance in Argentina (1976-83). Invited Lecturer. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, Spring, 1991.
"Terror and Gender in Contemporary Latin American Theatre." Modern Language Association, Chicago, December, 1990.
"Feminism and Theatre." Invited Lecturer, Women's Studies. University of California, Irvine, Nov., 1990.
"La transculturación y la literatura marginada." Invited Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University California, Irvine, Nov., 1990.
"Imagining Otherness." Representation of Otherness Conference. Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, October, 1990.
"Transculturating Transculturation." Humanities Research Institute, University of California, October, 1990.
"Emilio Carballido en la década de los setenta." III Jornadas de Teatro Iberoamericano y Argentino, Instituto de Teatro, Buenos Aires, August, 1990.
Mesa Redonda: "El teatro latinoamericano visto desde el exterior." III Jornadas de Teatro Iberoamericano y Argentino, Instituto de Teatro, Buenos Aires, August, 1990.
"Las Casas y la figura del indígena en el teatro hispanoamericano moderno." XXVIII Congreso, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Brown University, June, 1990.
"Farce and Fratricide: Gambaro's Real envido." Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December, 1989.
"The Politics of Ambiguity." XII Mediterranean Conference, Athens, Greece, July 7-10, 1989.
"Framing the Revolution: Triana's La noche de los asesinos and Ceremonial de guerra." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 27-29, 1989.
"Staging Violence: Gambaro's Information for Foreigners." "New Languages for the Stage" Drama Conference, The University of Kansas, October 27-29, 1988.
"Destruyendo la evidencia: supresión como historia en La maestra de Buenaventura." Encuentro Internacional sobre teatro Latinoamericano de hoy, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne, May 18-21, 1988.
"Violencia y (re)creación, José Triana's La noche de los asesinos, Gambaro & Triana. Conference at Dartmouth College, October 1987.
"Theatre as Inquiry: Carballido's Yo también hablo de la rosa," Louisiana Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Tulane University. Feb. 1987.
"The Face of Violence: An approach to Latin American Theatre," Humanities Forum, Dartmouth College, Jan. 1987.
"Asturias's El Señor Presidente," Latin American Literature Series sponsored by Vermont Council on the Humanities, Putney Library, Feb. 1986.
"The World in Ruins: José Triana's La noche de los asesinos," 35th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Furman University, October, 1985.
"Asturias's El Señor Presidente," Latin American Literature Series sponsored by Vermont Council on the Humanities, South Burlington Community Library, September 1985.
"Mad World, Mad Hope: Carballido's El día que se soltaron los leones." Southeast Conference, Rollins College, February 1985.
"Art and Anti-Art in Egon Wolff's Flores de Papel," XXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Madrid, June 25-29, 1984.
PUBLIC LECTURES ON PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES:
"Hemispheric Dialogues," Invited Lecture. Faculty Resource Network conference, "Instructional Design for the World Wide Web." NYU, June, 2001.
"Hemispheric Applications of Pedagogical Technology." Invited Lecture. "Teaching with Technology" Conference, NYU. April, 2001.
THEATRE EXPERIENCE:
Director of Dartmouth's 'PRIMER ACTO', the Hispanic Theatre Program, Bentley Theatre, Hanover, N.H., 1982-1997
Artistic Director, Cherríe Moraga, HEROES AND SAINTS, Moore Theatre, 1996.
Artistic Director, José Rivera, MIRASOL, Moore Theatre, 1993.
Director, Enrique Buenaventura, EL MENU, Bentley Theatre, 1990.
Director, José Triana NIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS, Bentley Theatre, 1987.
Director, Griselda Gambaro SAYING YES, Bentley Theatre, 1987.
Director, Griselda Gambaro's DECIR SI, 1986.
Director, Denevi's NO HAY QUE COMPLICAR LA FELICIDAD, 1986.
Artistic Director, Buenaventura's LA ORGIA, directed by Stacey Coverdale, 1986.
Director, Fernando Arrabal's EL CEMENTERIO DE AUTOMOVILES, 1984.
Director, Emilio Carballido's YO TAMBIEN HABLO DE LA ROSA, Bentley Theatre, Hanover, N. H., May 1983.
Director, Emilio Carballido's YO TAMBIEN HABLO DE LA ROSA, Teatro Cuatro, New York, June 1983
Director of University of Washington's 'TEATRO ESPAÑOL,'
Egon Wolff's FLORES DE PAPEL, Ethnic Theatre, March 1982.
Assistant to the Director of Theatre, National Institute of Fine Arts (IBNA), Gto., México, under Mascha Beyo, Artistic Director, (1978-1980).
Stage Manager and Actress in 'Teatro Español' (1974-1977) under the direction of Farris Anderson in Garcia Lorca's LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA, Benavente's LOS INTERESES CREADOS, and stage manager for Mihura's TRES SOMBREROS DE COPA.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Conference Organizer, co-directed with Javier Serna, Second Annual Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, June 2001.
Conference Organizer, co-directed with Zeca Legiero, First Annual Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. UNI-RIO, Brazil, July 2000.
Conference Organizer: "Brecht," New York University, October, 1998.
Conference Organizer: "Spectacles of Religiosity," New York University, April, 1998.
Conference Organizer, co-directed with Doris Sommer and Jorge Dominguez, Harvard University, Harvard-Dartmouth Institute on Performance and Politics, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98.
Conference Organizer, Local Arrangements, NECLAS, Dartmouth, 1995.
Conference Organizer, co-directed with Marianne Hirsch and Grace Paley, "Books and Other Activisms." Dartmouth, Spring, 1995.
Conference Organizer, co-directed with Annelise Orleck, "Redefining Motherhood: Mothers, Politics, and Social Change in the 20th Century." Dartmouth, Spring, 1993.
Conference Organizer, co-directed by Juan Villegas U.C., Irvine: "Cultural Hermeneutics: Representations of Otherness in Mexican and Mexican-American Theatre and Film." Sponsored by University of California Humanities Research Institute, October, 1990.
Conference Organizer: Latin American Theatre Conference with guest playwrights Griselda Gambaro and José Triana at Dartmouth College, October, 1987.
Conference Funding:
Ford Foundation Rockefeller Foundation, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, June 2001.
Ford Foundation, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. UNI-RIO, Brazil, July 2000.
Dickey Center for International Understanding Grant, "Performance and Politics Conference." Harvard-Dartmouth Institute on Performance and Politics, 1996.
Hewlett Presidential Grant, "Books and Other Acts" Conference, Dartmouth 1995.
Presidential Bildner Endowment for Human and Intergroup Relations, "Books and Other Acts" Conference, Dartmouth 1995.
Dickey Endowment Grant, "Books and Other Acts" Conference, Dartmouth 1995.
Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Grant, "Books and Other Acts" Conference, Dartmouth 1995.
Hewlett Presidential Grant, "Redefining Motherhood" Conference, Dartmouth 1992-93.
Presidential Bildner Endowment for Human and Intergroup Relations, "Redefining Motherhood" Conference, 1992-93.
Dickey Endowment Grant, "Redefining Motherhood" Conference, 1992-93.
Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Grant, "Redefining Motherhood" Conference, 1992-93.
Hewlett Presidential Venture Grant, Dartmouth College, Fall, 1987.
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Professional Organizations:
Contributing Editor, TDR
Vice President, Performance Studies international
Advisory Board, Teatro Repertorio Español, Humanities Outreach Program. 2001-
Chair, Board of Directors, East Coast Artists, New York
Series Editor. "Americas" Book Series, University Press of New England.
Executive Council, North Eastern Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS), 1992-94.
Dartmouth's Editorial Board, University Press of New England, 1995-97.
Associate Editor, Theatre Journal.
Contributing Editor, Theatre Research International
Editorial board Latin American Theatre Review.
Editorial reader Gestos.
Advisory Board, Centro de Investigación de Teatro Iberoamericano (C.I.T.I.), Argentina.
Dartmouth's Advisory Board, School of Criticism and Theory, 1988-1995.
Consultant, World Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Theatre, 1994.
Organizing Committee, American Festival Project, bringing theatre groups and practitioners such as Teatro de la Esperanza, Cherrie Moraga, Alan Bolt, Roadside Theatre, Junebug, Traveling Jewish Theatre Co., Oklahoma Indian Dance Co. to Dartmouth College, 1991-1992.
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