Spanish and laTIN-american women writers from the enlightenment

Spanish and laTIN-american women writers from the enlightenment

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Symposium:
Spanish and laTIN-american women writers from
the enlightenment to Hispanic modernismo
March 29-30, 2013
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages of Florida
International University, FIU MOL Graduate Students Association, FIU
Latin American and Caribbean Center, FIU Women Studies, and with the
participation of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
from the University of Miami, Coral Gables
Organizer: Dr. Joan Torres-Pou
Assistants: Andrea Fanta, Nicola Gavioli and José Villar
Friday March 29th
6:30 to 7:45 Opening Presentation: Dr. Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois. “Writing Gender in
the Modern Empire: Spain and the Philippines” (Graham Center Panther Suite)
7:45 to 9:30 Reception.
Saturday, March 30th: 9:00 to 10:45
I.
Panel: Approaches to Teaching Pardo Bazán’s Novels. GC. Panther Suite A
Chair: Lisa Nalbone ([email protected] )
Jennifer Smith, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: Race, Class and Gender in Insolación
Erika M. Sutherland, Muhlenberg College: Yesterday’s Medicine Today: Teaching Naturalism
with Un viaje de novios.
Linda M. Willem, Butler University: From Page to Screen: Teaching Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Pazos
de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza
II.
Panel:. Women Writers and Spanish Society. GC Room 305
Chair: Elena Grau-Lleveria ( [email protected] )
Ricardo Castells, Florida International University: La escuela de la mujer emancipada
en Matrimonio bien avenido, la mujer junto al marido (1851) de Cecilia Böhl de Faber.
Zachary Erwin, University of Texas, Austin: Regenerations: Masculinity and Politics in Emilia
Pardo Bazán’s La madre naturaleza
Efraín Garza, University of Northern Colorado: Las manifestaciones del amor: De afectos y
sentimientos en los cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán.
Daniela Raducanu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Travelling for Spain: Modernity in
the Travel Narratives of Carmen de Burgos.
10:45 to 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 to 1:00
III.
Panel: Teaching Pardo Bazán’s Short Fiction GC Panther Suite A
Chair: Erika Sutherland ([email protected] )
Susan Walter, University of Denver: The Use of Creative Writing Activities in a Literature
Course on Pardo Bazán.
Leslie M. Kaiura, University of Alabama in Huntsville: Don Juan, Meet Doña Emilia: Teaching
“El encaje roto” as Reversal of El conde Lucanor’s Exemplum XXXV.
Francisca González Arias, The University of Massachusetts, Lowell: A Tour of Doña Emilia’s
Galicia.
IV.
Panel: Rosalía de Castro. GC Room 305
Chair: María Aparicio ( [email protected] )
Lily Margarita Acajabón, University of Central Florida: Cuestionamiento existencialista en “Era
apacible el día” de Rosalía de Castro.
Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, Lafayette College: In Defense of the (M)otherland: Gender and
Resistance in Rosalía de Castro.
Savannah Sullivan, Florida State University: Affective Ontology: Sticky Objects in Rosalía de
Castro’s Cantares Gallegos (1863).
1:00 to 2:45 Buffet Lunch
2:45 to 4:45
V.
Panel: Visualizing Pardo Bazán. GC Panther Suite A
Chair: Susan Walter ([email protected] )
Anne Gilfoil, University of Virginia: Race, Gender, and Disease in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Una
Cristiana-La prueba.
Christy Presson Shaughnessy, Washington and Jefferson College: Thoroughly Modern Mary: The
Interplay of Text and Illustration in Pardo Bazán’s Edition of La vida de la Virgen María.
Margot Versteeg, University of Kansas: Propuestas para (re)construir una nación: El teatro de
Emilia Pardo Bazán.
2:45- 7:00
VI.
Panel: Spanish-American Women Writers. GC Room 305
Chair: José Villar ([email protected])
Edwin Murillo, Penn State University-Berks: Specter of Malcontent in Latin American Poetry.
Ian Althouse, Yale University: Electric Lighting and a New Perception of the Night in the Poetry
of Delmira Agustini.
Grazyna Walczak, Valdosta State University: La madre ausente en La hija del bandido o los
subterráneos del Nevado (1887) de Refugio Barragán Toscano.
Maida Watson, Florida International University: Carolina Freyle de Jaimes y el mundo cultural
del periodismo escrito por mujeres en el siglo XIX peruano.
Frank Otero, Florida International University: Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera y Blanca Sol
(1888) apasionamiento, sífilis, locura y muerte social.
4:50 to 7:00
VII.
Panel: Emilia’s Evolving Ethics and Aesthetics. Graham Center Panther Suite A
Chair: Jennifer Smith ([email protected] )
Stacy Davis, Washington University in St. Louis: Antithesis as Rhetorical Device in the Social-
Moral Critiques “La mendiga” and María Magdalena of Matilde Cherner.
Leslie Anne Merced, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri: De Aficiones peligrosas a
Porvenir de la literatura después de la Guerra: juventud, nación y mujer en Emilia Pardo Bazán.
Lisa Nalbone, University of Central Florida: Mapping Gender and Class: Power and Truth in
Pardo Bazán’s La Quimera.