Humanities
Genevieve Abravanel
Associate Professor of English
Walcott, Woolf, and Joyce: The Risks of Postcolonial Modernism
This chapter on Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990) examines the Caribbean poet’s ambivalent relationship with Anglophone modernism. It cautions that Walcott’s epic ambition to found a new tradition of Caribbean writing makes him reluctant simply to affirm or imitate the European cultural heritage of modernism.
Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present, Oxford University Press, p. 181-196 - Link to Book
Bread
Short fiction
Lunch Ticket, Issue 15: Summer/Fall - Link to work
Seven Months Later
Short fiction
The Nottingham Review, Issue 14: August - Link to work
Older Again
Short fiction
Midway Journal, 13.4 - Link to work
stefania benini
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
From Blasphemy to Saint Paul: Multistable Subjectivities Between Queer Cinema and Pasolini's Subversive Hagiographies
An inquiry on Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Pauline" turn - the script "Saint Paul" (1966-1974) - after the Franciscan stage of his subversive hagiographies - particularly his unpublished work "Blasphemy" (1962-1967) - in the horizon of the rise of European Queer Cinema.
Biblical Interpretations, Vol. 27, Issue 4-5, p. 549-567 - Link to Article
patrick bernard
Associate Professor of English
A "Cipher Language": Thomas W. Talley and Call-and-Response during the Harlem Renaissance
This article examines the pioneering work on the African and African American practice of call-and-response (antiphony) by Thomas W. Talley (1870-1952). Talley was the first African American scholar to publish an in-depth study that traces the origin and analyzes the fundamental role of antiphony in African American musical performances.
African American Review, Vol. 52, Number 2, Summer, p. 121-142 - Link to Article
jose chavarry
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Redes materiales: compromiso intelectual y trabajo solidario en Todas las sangres y El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.
Conference in honor of the 50-year anniversary of the death of Peruvian writer and anthropologist Jose Maria Arguedas, who worked on the indigenous cultures and literatures of the Andes.
FRPDF funds
INDIGENISMO GLOBAL: 50 AÑOS DE LA MUERTE DE JOSÉ MARÍA ARGUEDAS, Havana, Cuba, November
jennifer conley
Assistant Professor of Dance
Dustbowl Ballads (1941)
This solo performance was part of program titled The Legacy of the New Dance Group and featured in the Concerts from the Library of Congress 2018-19 series. The New Dance Group was a collective of choreographers based in NYC who believed dance is a weapon to incite social justice. They were most active in the 1930s-1950s.
Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, April - 🔓
jessica cox
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Multilingualism in older age: A research agenda from the cognitive perspective
Based on research to date, this article proposes future directions for research on older adults (age 60+) who are language learners and/or multilinguals. Specifically, I consider relevant cognitive and sociocultural factors for retirees undertaking language study to maintain their cognitive activities, for migrants aging in place in areas where the majority language is their second language, and for newly arrived migrants.
Language Teaching, Vol. 52, Issue 3, p. 360-373 - Link to Article
“I’m gonna Spanglish it on you”: Self-reported versus oral production of Spanish/English codeswitching
We investigated factors related to variation in bilingual codeswitching (switching between two languages in one conversation). In our study of Spanish-English bilinguals, participants' self-report of their codeswitching practices on a questionnaire generally correlated with their codeswitching frequency in conversation. Additionally, participants' more frequent codeswitching was not necessarily related to lower language proficiency.
This study was supported by a Language Learning Small Research Grant, the American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grant to JGC, and Franklin and Marshall College’s Hackman Summer Scholar Program.
Student Co-Author: Najee Mendes
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition - Link to Article
On bilingual aptitude for learning new languages: The roles of linguistic and non-linguistic individual differences
We investigated how bilinguals who had learned their two languages naturalistically (rather than in a classroom) varied in their aptitude for learning new languages. In our study of Spanish-English bilinguals, those who had equivalent proficiency in Spanish and English outperformed those with less balanced proficiency when learning new grammar and spelling systems; similarly, those with higher nonverbal IQ also did better at those two tasks compared to those with lower nonverbal IQ.
This project was supported by a Language Learning Small Research Grant, the American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grant, and Franklin and Marshall College’s Hackman Summer Scholars Program.
Student Co-Authors: Julianna M. Lynch, Najee Mendes, ChengCheng Zhai
Language Learning, Vol 69, Issue 2, p. 478-514 - link to article
Carol C. Davis
Associate Professor of Theatre
Theatre of Nepal and the People Who Make
Theatre of Nepal and the People Who Make It is the first comprehensive look at Nepali theatre for readers outside of Nepal. Charting Nepali theatre from ancient times to the present and from the metropolis of Kathmandu to far-flung regions, this book highlights the history of formal theatre and connects it to shifting political and social conditions in the country.
Cambridge University Press - link to book
meg day
Assistant Professor of English
Deaf Erasure of the Gospel According to the TSA Agent at Atlanta International
This poem explores the literal & figurative erasure of Deaf/disabled & queer/trans bodies in policed surveillance situations like TSA. It repurposes the language of divinity poetics to connect this violence to our failure to divide church & state.
The New York Times, May 19 - link to poem 🔓
Laura Hershey: On the Life and Work of an American Master
Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activist poetics. Her poems speak from the margins with the force of truth—eloquently, ferociously, and beautifully. This volume of the Unsung Masters Series, carefully curated by poets Meg Day and Niki Herd, reintroduces a wide selection of Hershey's writing to a new generation of readers. Also included are essays about her life and work by other poets and critics as well as a portfolio of photographs.
Pleiades Press - link to book
dennis deslippe
Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
"As In a Civics Text Come to Life": The East Brooklyn Congregations’ Nehemiah Housing Plan and "Citizens Power" in the 1980s
A study of "citizen power organizing" for affordable housing in East Brooklyn in the 1980s and 1990s.
Journal of Urban History, Vol. 45, Issue 5, p. 1030-1049 - link to article
shari goldberg
Assistant Professor of English
A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America
Scholars tracing the genealogy of trauma generally place its emergence in the 1870s, when the condition began to be conceptualized as mental rather than physical injury, treatable through psychological measures. I analyze earlier literary texts that represent mental breakdown with a different therapy: the mind's acquiescence to the body's physiological function. My analysis also challenges the expectation that narratives about trauma must formally mimic the shattered mind, demonstrating how they may instead resemble the organic body.
I gratefully acknowledge a Humanities Initiative Grant from Franklin and Marshall College, which supported the writing of this essay.
American Literature, Vol. 91, Issue 4, p. 721-749 - Link to Article
Newland Archer's Doubled Consciousness: Wharton, Psychology, and Narrational Form
This essay responds to the exquisite narration of Wharton's novel, arguing that it models an approach to consciousness that resonates with the alternate-consciousness paradigm that underwrote research in somnambulism and hypnosis. This doubled vision of consciousness means that Newland is never aware of the rich formulations of his mind that constitute so much of the novel's enticing prose.
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays, p. 99-114 - link to book
bruce gustafson
Charles A. Dana Professor of Music, Emeritus
Chambonnières, a Thematic Catalogue: The Complete Works of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601/02–1672)
Provides and indexes the complete works of the founder of the French harpsichord school, along with up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information.
Revision of 2007 publication.
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music - link to catalogue 🔓
"Pièces de Clavecin" Associated with the Name La Barre
A discussion of all of the seventeenth-century harpsichord music attributed to composers named La Barre.
CD Pamphlet, Karen Flint (performer: harpsichordist), Plectra Music - link to music
Joshua Katz-Rosene
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Searching for ‘Social Song’: Classifying Oppositional Music in Colombia Through Fifty Years of War
In this presentation, I seek to make sense of a change that took place in the terminology for oppositional music in Colombia. In Colombia’s case of extended conflict, I argue, the shift from use of the term protest song (1960s-70s) to social song (as of the 1990s) represents a dramatic evolution in the discourses within which political and musical resistance have been defined.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Bloominton, IN, November
Bandas and Regional Identity in the Central Andes of Peru
This presentation illustrates how brass bands in the central Andes of Peru integrate into their repertoire the broad cultural orientations that have been identified for the region's people -- namely, a robust sense of regional identity that has historically been paired with an openness to appropriating external cultural influences.
Heritage and the Politics of Inclusion in Latin American Brass Bands, Bloomington, IN, November
richard kent
Professor of Art History
Trying My Hand at Translating Li Bai
The poem published in FIELD is a short lyric poem that obliquely reflects on the ineffability of Li Bai's poetry. Li Bai is one of the three greatest poets of China's Tang dynasty.
FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, No. 100 (Spring), p. 47
"Just Listen" & "This Early June Morning, While Reading Du Fu, I Discover We've Caught Another Groundhog"
"Just Listen" is an octet that explores the hope of a kind of spiritual listening. "This Early June Morning, While Reading Du Fu, I Discover We've Caught Another Groundhog" narrates the experience of releasing a caught groundhog into the woods while thinking about inhumane immigration policies.
Anchor: Where Spirituality and Social Justice Meet, Issue 10 (Spring)
"Lines for Guo Xi," "In Rural New York State, Thinking of Wang Wei," "Going Westward Within; Fawn at the Cemetery"
These are four lyric poems. Two, in their titles and content, refer to ancient Chinese cultural figures (Guo Xi, a Song dynasty painter, and Wang Wei, a Tang dynasty poet) and two concern heightened experiences in nature.
Pinyon Review, No. 16 (October), pp. 33-37
Emerging from the Om Hut
"Emerging from the Om Hut" is a toned gelatin silver print. It falls into the category of a constructed image in that I conceived a kind of performance and then carried it out.
Juror: Laura Moya, Director of Photolucida, Portland, OR; recipient of Director’s Award)
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT: Intentional Spaces , June 20-July 13.
New Holland & Franklin, 2nd Series, 7X
This photograph is from an ongoing, conceptual series in color entitled Lessons in Recursion. The series' images, though film-based (color transparency film), are archival inkjet prints.
Recipient of Juror’s Award
Jadite Gallery, New York, NY: Primary Colors, NYC4PA (Juror: Stephen Perloff; one work selected), April 16-27.
New Holland & Franklin, 2nd Series, 9X
The image is from the ongoing, conceptual series in color that is entitled "Lessons in Recursion." The image, though film-based, is an archival inkjet print.
The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA: Photography Practices in the MidAtlantic Region, SPE Mid-Atlantic Chapter Members Exhibition (in conjunction with the 2019 Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Chapter Conference), October 12.
alison kibler
Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
'Feminists for Media Rights': A Case Study in Television Activism
This article chronicles the most successful feminist campaign to deny a license of a television station: the Feminists for Media Rights in Lancaster, PA won a significant citizens agreement with WGAL and forced the owners of the station to sell to avoid a media monopoly in the area.
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television - link to article
kostis kourelis
Associate Professor of Art History
Wool and Rubble Walls: Domestic Archaeology in the Medieval Peloponnese
Study of medieval textile production in Greece and its archaeological traces.
Also published online as an accompaniment to an exhibition catalog.
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 73, p. 165-184 - link to article 🔓
The Susan and Benjamin Winter Visual Arts Center
Study of Steven Holl's design of the Winter Arts Center in campus architecture book written by David Schuyler, who invited me to contribute the last chapter on the Winter Arts Center.
Constructing the Campus: Franklin & Marshall College 1853-2019, p. 115-128 - link to book
Museum as Witness
Exhibition essay
Hostile Terrain by Lucy Cahill, Jason de León, and Michael Wells
Supported by Von Hess Foundation funds to Art and Art History Department
Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, p. 3-8 - link to exhibition essay
Greek America in the Images of America Series
Review of pictorial books on the history of Greek American communities throughout the U.S.
Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, June - link to review 🔓
carrie landfried
Associate Professor of French
Claude Ollier à l’écoute de l’ACR : une radio « strictement pour initiés » ?
Claude Ollier's critiques of the 39 episodes comprising the 1975-1976 season of the French radio program "Atelier de création radiophonique" examine the nature of the program, its audience, and its mission. They also reveal key aspects of Ollier's own vision of radiophonic creation.
Komodo 21, Vol. 10 - link to article 🔓
MAGNOLIA LAURIE
Assistant Professor of Art
Again and Again
This new series of works on paper suggest a geologic span of time and offer a nearly cross-sectional view of landscape – tendencies that complicate a sense of vantage point and question the expectation of a human perspective. The drawings evolve through a process of adaptation, as each layer of ink, water, and salt add and subtract moisture from the surface.
October Solo exhibition at Frosch & Portmann, NY, NY
arthur lawrence
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Organ
The Aeolian Pipe Organ and its Music by Rollin Smith
Review feature of the early twentieth-century home organ, which was frequently played automatically by a roll mechanism. Included are descriptions of the instruments and the music.
The American Organist, Volume 53, Number 7, July - link to review
giovanna faleschini lerner
Associate Professor of Italian
Italian Cinema/Crossing Boundaries: From Adaptation to Transmedia, Transartistic, and Transnational Cinema
Guest Editor, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 7.2 - Special Issue
Speaking of collaboration, friendship, and the future of Italian film studies: An interview with Millicent Marcus
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 7.2, p.191-198. - link to interview
Millicent Marcus and the Ethics of Adaptation.
Millicent Marcus, whose Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (1993) reframed conversations on filmic adaptation, has shaped generations of students and researchers through her scholarly practice of adapting art and life. In this article, my co-authored and I explain the impact and influence of her teaching and research, a feminist legacy grounded in an ethics of collaboration.
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 7.2, p.179-189 - link to article
Archives of Migrant Motherhood: Andrea Segre’s ‘Ibi.’
An article on a documentary, based on home videos by a woman migrant from Benin who lived in Italy for 20 years, apart from her children and her family, who were left behind.
EuropeNow, Issue 30 - link to article 🔓
Jennifer mackenzie
Assistant Professor of Italian
Lorenzo Valla's Critique of Jurisprudence, the Discovery of Heraldry, and the Philology of Images
This article shows that scholars of Latin and Greek ('humanists') who rose to prominence in the Renaissance used their new understandings about the historical and social character of language(s) to come to new understandings about the historical and social character of images as well. In other words, I highlight here under-appreciated connections between traditions of scholarship focused on language and texts (philology), and traditions of scholarship focused on images as codes, or visual languages, embedded within social systems (eventually the anthropology of images). The relationship between the study of greco-roman antiquity and the study of "other" cultures - distant in time and space - is under investigation from the perspective of intellectual history.
Early idea(s) for this project I developed during a 3-month period of study at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence (in 2015) when I was a doctoral fellow working with a group dedicated to exploring intersections between legal history and the history of art. I continued working on the project for years following that experience.
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, Issue 4, p. 1183-1224 - Link to Article
virginia maksymowicz
Emerita Professor of Art
Scenic Route
For each bimonthly issue of The National, which has an estimated circulation of 5.2 million, an artist is invited to interpret the Amtrak route map in a unique manner. Maksymowicz's design for the map uses hand tools and railroad spikes cast into plaster, making them appear bone-like, presenting the rail system as a skeletal support for the basic structure of the country.
Commissioned sculptural installation for print publication, with essay by Tom Smyth and photos by Jason Varney.
The National, Dec. 2019/Jan. 2020, p. 18-20 - link to magazine article 🔓
The Forgotten Federal Artists: CETA and the Cultural Council Foundation's Artists Project 1977-1980
During the 1970s, the federally funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) employed 10,000 artists across the United States but unlike the WPA Federal Art Project, CETA has largely been forgotten. This first of two panels focused on the Cultural Council Foundation (CCF) Project in New York City.
College Art Association Conference, Midtown Hilton, New York, Feb. 13-16 🔓
Artists, Institutions, and Public Funding for the Arts: The Legacy of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
During the 1970s, the federally funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) employed 10,000 artists across the United States but unlike the WPA Federal Art Project, CETA has largely been forgotten. This second panel focused on what can be learned from CETA as a model for devising future strategies for arts funding.
College Art Association Conference, Midtown Hilton, New York, Feb. 13-16 🔓
Salon des Refusés
A group exhibition of artists who submitted works to the Woodmere Museum's annual show over the last five years without acceptance.
iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - link to work 🔓
Women's Caucus for Art exhibition, NOW!
Exhibition Juror, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA - link to work 🔓
gretchen meyers
Associate Professor of Classics
Roof Tile Production in a Diverse Craft Industry: New Geochemical Evidence from Poggio Colla
This chapter presents evidence of geochemical studies of ceramic and roof tiles samples from the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla that demonstrate a highly diversified craft industry at the ancient site. The analyses were conducted at Franklin & Marshall and were the result of a collaboration between faculty in Classics and a faculty member and student in Earth & Environment.
Student Co-Author: Ziqin Ni
Faculty Co-Authors: Ann Steiner and Stanley Mertzman
Deliciae Fictiles V: Networks and Workshops. Architectural Terracottas and Decorative Roof Systems in Italy and Beyond, p. 537-540, Oxbow Books - link to book
John MOdern
Professor of Religious Studies
Praying Hands
A Genealogy of the Scientific Study of Prayer
American Religion, Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 109-136 - Link to Article
The Human Code
Questions concerning humanism and mathematical formalism.
The Turnip Truck(s), Vol. 4, Issue 4, p. 37-51 - Link to Article
Forum on The Religious Situation, 1968
The critical resource of Marshall McLuhan for the study of religion .
Journal of American Religion and Culture, Vol. 29, Issue 2, p. 153-162 - Link to Article
Science
For "A Universe of Terms," curated by Mona Oraby and Daniel Vaca.
The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere, Social Science Research Council - Link to Digital Scholarship 🔓
Already Gone
It is an audio sermon from the pulpit of neuroscience.
A forum on Apocryphal Technologies in continent - Link to Digital Scholarship 🔓
Book Review: Adrienne Mayor, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (Princeton University Press, 2018)
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 87:4 - Link to Book Review
Book Review: Jessica Johnson, Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire (Duke University Press, 2018)
Religious Studies Review, 45:3 (September 2019): 289-92 - Link to Book Review
Invited talk: Religion and the Neurosciences
A Symposium on Religion and Innovation, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., April 12.
jeremy moss
Associate Professor & Director of Film and Media Studies
Film: Camera Sick
The earth spins while bodies and cameras wind and rotate on its surface. Sand particles infest recording devices scratching unravelling celluloid. The camera and its operator transform from seers to ecstatic performers.
Filming location: Tissardmine, Morocco
World premiere exhibition date: May 4
Premiere venue: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Funding sources: FRPDF and OCG; produced at the Alchemy Moving Image Artist Residency in Morocco.
shawn O'bryhim
Professor of Classics
“The Marriage of Knemon in Menander’s Dyskolos”
Why does a well-off misanthrope marry a poor widow with a son and a slave? Because he wants to keep her deceased husband's small plot of land out of the hands of a potential neighbor.
Classical World, Vol. 112, Issue 4, p. 279-282 - Link to Article
"Mutilating Demipho in Plautus' Mercator"
Demipho's offer to allow himself to be mutilated in specific ways reveals his role as an adulterer in this Roman comedy.
Classical Quarterly, Vol. 69, Issue 1, p. 453-455 - Link to Article
Jennifer Redmann
Professor of German
"The Backfischroman as Bildungsroman: German Novels for Girls, 1863-1913"
In the essay I offer a new perspective on books written for teenage girls in German, the Backfischroman, which I recast as a form of the more canonical Bildungsroman. I trace how, over the course of sixty years, the social realities experienced by middle-class women of the day came to be integrated into the otherwise idealized fictional world of the girls’ novel.
Feminist German Studies, Vol. 35, p. 1-25 - Link to Article
veronika ryjik
Professor of Spanish
‘La bella España’: el teatro de Lope de Vega en la Rusia soviética y post-soviética
This book studies the reception of Lope de Vega’s theater in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. It explores the reasons behind the Russian directors' --and their audiences'-- extraordinary fascination with the Spanish Early Modern playwright, as well as some of the factors that have influenced the processes of consolidation of a specifically Russian Lopean canon.
This project was made possible by several F&M internal grants.
Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Madrid/Frankfurt - Link to Book
Sherali Tareen
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Defending Muhammad in Modernity
In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. Defending Muhammad in Modernity challenges the commonplace tendency to view such moments of intra-Muslim contest through the prism of problematic yet powerful liberal secular binaries like legal/mystical, moderate/extremist, and reformist/traditionalist. Tareen argues that the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic was instead animated by what he calls “competing political theologies” that articulated—during a moment in Indian Muslim history marked by the loss and crisis of political sovereignty—contrasting visions of the normative relationship between divine sovereignty, prophetic charisma, and the practice of everyday life.
University of Notre Dame Press - Link to Book
Tragedies and Ambiguities of Islam in Pakistan
This essay engages key themes, arguments, and interventions of a major recent monograph in the study of religion and Islam: Muhammad Qasim Zaman’s “Islam in Pakistan: A History.” I propose and suggest that “Islam in Pakistan”can be productively read as a text imbued with a tragic sensibility that offers important and instructive historical lessons critical to refashioning futures less imprisoned to ideologically rigid and doctrinaire registers of identity and politics.
Islamic Studies, Vol. 58, Issue 2, p. 245-253 - link to article 🔓
Jonathan Stone
Associate Professor of Russian and Russian Studies
Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s
Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach, Stone examines a shift in perspective that explodes the notion of reality and showcases the uneasy relationship between the tangible and intangible aspects of the surrounding world. Decadence and Symbolism complement the broader historical trajectory of the fin de siècle by affirming the novelty of a modernist mindset and offering an alternative to the empirical and positivistic atmosphere of the nineteenth century. Stone seeks to recreate a significant historical and cultural moment in the development of modernity, a moment that embraces the concept of Decadence while repurposing its aesthetic and social import to help navigate the fundamental changes that accompanied the dawn of the twentieth century.
Palgrave Macmillan - Link to Book
kathrin theumer
Associate Professor of Spanish
Becoming Casal: José Manuel's 'Canto élego' and 'Para una lectura de la Rimas'
Analyzing the dialogue between Cuban poets José Manuel Poveda and Julián del Casal, I argue that Poveda recognizes and internalizes Casal’s rootlessness as the basis for his own itinerant poetics of identity. Poveda’s gesture is controversial since to follow Casal is to deviate from the dominant discourse of Cuban identity grounded in 19th century patriotic ideals and the symbolic meaning of Cuba's national hero, José Martí.
Ciberletras, Vol. 41, p. 24-37 - link to article 🔓
pamela vail
Associate Professor of Dance
CAST
CAST is a quartet, and part of a trilogy - CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR - based on conversations of 15 performers. At each performance, a new, computer-generated script is culled from transcripts of our conversations on casting and representation. The performers receive their parts and the never-before-seen script in front of the audience and perform it for the first time in their presence, grappling with the challenge of immediate interpretation and building the work as a cast.
The Yard, Chilmark MA, July - link to performance description