El Paso, Texas
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
9:00-12:00 AHCT Officers’ Meeting
Room: Del Norte I
1:30-5:00 AHCT Board Meeting
Room: Del Norte I
6:15 sharp Bus departs Hilton Garden Inn for Chamizal National Memorial Theatre
7:00 Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, Chamizal National Memorial
La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca; performed by Jazz Vila, Cuba
Roundtable discussion following the play, moderated by Judith Caballero
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Registration table open 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session I (A): 9:00-10:30 – Room: Del Norte I
Practicum: Taking the Trick by Teamwork: A Methodology of Translation and an English-
Language Debut for La Capeadora
Moderator: Ben Gunter, Theater with a Mission
Participants: Ian Borden, Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Ben Gunter, Theater with a Mission; David Pasto, Oklahoma City University; Susan Paun de García, Denison University; Kerry Wilks, Wichita State University
Session I (B): 9:00-10:30 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: David Reher, University of Chicago
9:00-9:30 “En un infierno los dos: Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare
and Fletcher’s Henry VIII and Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra.”
Courtney Herber, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
9:30-10:00 “Or Should He Say ‘Don Juan, ¿español?’ ”
Cayce Elder, University of Kansas
10:00-10:30 “Fuenteovejuna de Lope de Vega y El dilema del prisionero.”
Fernán Gómez-Monedero, University of Georgia
Session I (C): 9:00-10:30 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderator: Rob Turner, University of South Dakota
9:00-9:30 “La creación del mundo on the Golden Age Stage.”
Jonathan Thacker, University of Oxford
9:30-10:00 “The World on Stage: Alonso Ramón’s Global Imagination.”
Amy Sheeran, Johns Hopkins University
10:00-10:30 “The Physics of Theater in El Teatro de los Teatros.”
John Slater, University of California, Davis
Session II (A): 10:45-12:15 – Room: Del Norte I
Roundtable: Social Justice in Spanish Comedia
Moderator: Erin Cowling, MacEwan University
Participants:
“The Voice of the Voiceless. Towards Equality and Social Justice in Sor Juana’s
Loas and Autos.”
Francisco J. López Martín, Denison University
“El Trato de Argel and the Immigrant Crisis.”
Mina García-Soormally, Elon University
“Morisco Justice in Calderón’s Amar después de la muerte.”
Sharon Voros, United States Naval Academy
“Utopian Divorce: El descasamentero by Salas Barbadillo.”
Tania de Miguel Magro, West Virginia University
Session II (B): 10:45-12:15 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: Chris Gascón, SUNY Cortland
10:45-11:15 “And We All Fall Down: The 30 Years War on the Spanish Stage.”
Robert Turner, University of South Dakota
11:15-11:45 “Performing Abdication, or How to Transform Charles V from a Lionized Emperor
to Humble Mortal, in Two Comedias.”
Christopher Oechler, Gettysburg College
11:45-12:15 “Succession Solutions? The Nephew-King Paradigm in Bances Candamo’s El
esclavo en grillos de oro and La piedra filosofal.”
Caitlin Brady Carter, Fort Hays State University
Session II (C): 10:45-12:15 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderator: Philip Allen, University of Florida
10:45-11:15 “Theatrical Innovation: Performing Opera in Cervantes’s Don Quixote.”
Chad Gasta, Iowa State University
11:15-11:45 “Contextualizing Extant Music in Selected Plays by Lope de Vega.”
Yuri Porras, Texas State University
11:45-12:15 “The Dichotomy of Truth: Singing Characters on Stage in Early Modern Spain and
England.”
Laura Ramiro Moreno, Purdue University
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 2018 Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker – Room: Del Norte I & II
Paula Rodríguez and Sandra Arpa (Teatro Inverso)
“Del verso clásico a la performance : Una nueva forma de habitar los clásicos. Introducción a nuestra metodología Bodily Poetics y ejercicios prácticos para combinar el verso barroco, dramaturgia contemporánea y performance.”
Presenter: Susan Paun de García, Denison University
Paula Rodríguez and Sandra Arpa began their career together in 2011. They formed a collaboration in order to explore new scenic languages for the adaptation of Spanish Classics, taking special interest in the Spanish Golden Age. Both actresses have participated in courses with masters from The SITI Company, Theatre du Soleil, and have trained at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama or RESAD. They specialise in physical theatre (Anthropological theatre, Suzuki, Viewpoints) as well as text work.They have also worked together in several Theatre productions including En esta vida todo es verdad y todo es mentira at the CNTC National Classical Spanish Company.
Session III (A): 3:45-5:15 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: Laura Ramiro Moreno, Purdue University
3:45-4:15 “Mujer y violencia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro.”
Reina Ruiz, University of Arkansas
4:15-4:45 “Vivificando a la villana: Caracterización y performance de doña Inés en la
adaptación contemporánea de La villana de Getafe, de Lope de Vega.”
Phillip Allen, University of Florida
4:45-5:15 “Polémica, erotismo y horizonte de expectativas en la puesta en escena de El
burlador de Sevilla, de Darío Facal.”
Mar Gámez García, University of Cincinnati
Session III (B): 3:45-5:15 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderator: Harley Erdman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:45-4:15 “Older Actresses on the Early Modern stage: Roles and Challenges.”
Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University
4:15-4:45 “(Un)Masking a Giant: Synchronous Duality in the late St. Christopher Comedias.” Anthony Grubbs, Michigan State University
4:45-5:15 “Alma as Everynun: Performing Union in Sor Francisca de Santa Teresa’s Coloquios
for the Professions of Sor Rosa, Sor Manuela Petronila, and Sor Mariana.”
Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University
6:15 sharp Bus departs Hilton Garden Inn for Chamizal National Memorial Theatre
7:00 Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, Chamizal National Memorial
Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega; performed by Telón de Arena, México
Roundtable discussion following the play, moderated by Reina Ruiz
Friday, April 13, 2018
Registration table open 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session IV (A): 9:00-10:30 – Room: Del Norte I
Roundtable: Dressed for Success:Comedia Costume Construction
Moderator: Emily Tobey, Miami University
Participants: Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University; Lauren Roark, Beloit College; and
Emily Tobey, Miami University
Session IV (B): 9:00-10:30 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: Charles Patterson, Western Washington University
9:00-9:30 “Lope en Televisión: un mito al alcance de todos”
Esther Fernández, Rice University
9:30-10:00 “Convention at the Service of the Unconventional: Magis Theater Company’s 2017
Production, Calderon’s Two Dreams.”
Christopher Gascón, SUNY Cortland
10:00-10:30 “Espacios teatrales en El Coloquio de Timbria, de Lope de Rueda.”
Carlos Urani Montiel, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Session IV (C): 9:00-10:30 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderator: Mina García-Soormally, Elon University
9:00-9:30 “Staging Strikes and the Morisco Problem in Valencia.”
Melissa Figueroa, Ohio University
9:30-10:00 “Crypto-Judaism and Crypto-Christianity in Ruiz de Alarcón’s Anticristo.”
Ben Post, Murray State University
10:00-10:30 “Society’s Shade: Ghosts and Ghost Belief in the Golden Age Theater.”
Sean Gullickson, University of Kansas
Session V (A): 10:45-12:15 – Room: Del Norte I
Moderator: Glenda Y. Nieto Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan University
10:45-11:15 “La doble función del ambiente festivo en Mujer, llora y vencerás, de Calderón de
la Barca.”
María del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Central Michigan University
11:15-11:45 “Mutual Misunderstanding and the Elusive Fourth Wall in Elena Garro’s La dama
boba.” Daryl Spurlock, Indiana University
11:45-12:15 “The Four Elements, Monarchical Symbolism, and Calderón’s Visual Spectacle.” Timothy Foster, West Texas A&M University
Session V (B): 10:45-12:15 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: Ian Borden, Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film, University
of Nebraska–Lincoln
10:45-11:15 “Approaches to Adaptation in Performance: Merging Characters in Tirso de
Molina’s Jealous of Herself.”
Sarah Grunnah, University of Oxford
11:15-11:45 “Comedias Sueltas and Performance History.”
Ronna Feit, SUNY
11:45-12:15 “Who is the Actator? A New Dramatic Term, Unveiled through Comedia Studies.” Ellen Frye, William Paterson University of New Jersey
Session V (C): 10:45-11:45 – Room Del Norte III
Moderator: Rob Bayliss, University of Kansas
10:45-11:15 “Parallel Characters, Perpendicular Realities: La vida es sueño and La mayor
hazaña de Portugal.”
Jonathan Wade, Meredith College
11:15-11:45 “La cruz y el caballero: Albert Camus’ Translation and Production of La devoción
de la Cruz and El caballero de Olmedo.”
Jared White, Buena Vista University
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break or Leadership Development Working Lunch: Chairing a Committee – Room: Del Norte I
As part of AHCT’s dedication to the academic and professional development of its members, we are initiating a new workshop series at our conference on leadership. Taking on leadership roles can be scary, but they are an important part of your professional development. Learn how to chair a committee on your campus at this exclusive workshop led by AHCT board member, Laura Vidler. Lunch will be partially subsidized by the Association. Seats are limited! Sign up and pay for your lunch ($5) at the conference registration table.
Session VI (A): 1:30-3:00 – Room: Del Norte I
Roundtable: Social Justice in Adaptation and Performance
Moderator: Melissa Figueroa, Ohio University
Participants: “Systemic Oppression in El coloquio de los perros.”
Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Ohio Wesleyan University
“A Social Justice Framing of the Comedia: Efe Tres Teatro’s El prínicipe ynocente
Adaptation.”
Erin Cowling, MacEwan University
“Efe Tres Teatro’s Productions.”
Fernando Villa, EfeTres Teatro
“The Poetics of Tragedy and Justice in Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera
(1613).”
Harrison Meadows, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Chirinos and Chanfalla go to America: Social Justice in Adaptations of El retablo
de las maravillas.”
Charles Patterson, Western Washington University
Session VI (B): 1:30-3:00 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: Chad Gasta, Iowa State University
1:30-2:00 “Esse Globo Turquesado: Ana María Caro’s Constantinople: Gender Roles and
Orientalism.”
David Reher, University of Chicago
2:00-2:30 “Imperial Geographies: Poetics of the Atlantic in Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s El
semejante a si mismo.”
Carl Wise, College of Charleston
2:30-3:00 “The Comedia and Empire, Then and Now.”
Rob Bayliss, University of Kansas
Session VI (C): 1:30-2:30 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderator: Judith Caballero, Millsaps College
1:30-2:00 “Effacing Deformity: An Author de Comedias’ Strikethroughs of Juan de Alarcón’s
Las paredes oyen.”
Pablo García Piñar, Colby College
2:00-2:30 “Asuntos públicos y amores particulares en La estatua de Prometeo de Calderón.” David J. Hildner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Session VII (A): 3:15-4:45 – Room: Del Norte I
Roundtable: Reading, Teaching, and Performing Sacred and Secular Plays: A Session
Honoring Donald T. Dietz
Moderator: Susan Paun de García, Denison University
Participants: “Staging Allegory: The Four Virtues in María de San Alberto and Sor Juana Inés de
la Cruz.”
Sharon Voros, U.S. Naval Academy
“Staging Allegory: Lope’s Two Extant Plays on Teresa de Ávila”
Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University
“Mentoring Spanish Theater Performance and Service Learning: The BYU
Spanish Golden Age Theater Project’s Production of Guillén de Castro’s El Narciso
en su opinión.”
Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University
“Performance as Discovery: Questioning Quevedo’s Entremeses and Zayas’s La
traición en la amistad.”
Amy Williamsen, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“The Dramatic Stagecraft of Calderón: Stage Movement and Proxemic Relations in El alcalde de Zalamea.” Robert Johnston, Northern Arizona University
Session VII (B): 3:15-4:15 – Room: Del Norte II
Moderator: Catherine Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington
3:15-3:45 “A Multiliteracies Approach to Teaching in the Spanish Comedia.” Jaime Cruz- Ortiz, Kennesaw State University
3:45-4:15 “Keys to Condensation.” Ben Gunter, Theater with a Mission
Session VII (C): 3:45-4:45 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderator: Tania de Miguel Magro, West Virginia University
3:45-4:45 “The Fabulous Johnny Frog!”
Jason Yancey, Grand Valley State University
(A shadow puppet play based on Juan Rana adapted by Jason Yancey)
4:50-5:30 Graduate Students Special Reception – Room: Del Norte III
Graduate students are invited to a special reception with the AHCT Officers and Board Members.
6:15 sharp Bus departs Hilton Garden Inn for Chamizal National Memorial Theatre
7:00 Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, Chamizal National Memorial*
Rosaura performed by Teatro Inverso, Spain
*No roundtable discussion
After the performance, join us for a reception, courtesy of Los Paisanos del Chamizal at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing Restaurant (#1 Ardovinos Drive, Sunland Park, New Mexico, 88063. Tlf. 575– 589-0653). The bus will pick AHCT members outside the Chamizal auditorium and drive them directly to the restaurant and back to the Hilton after the reception. The reception will end at 11:30 pm.
Important: We won’t be stopping at the Hilton after the performance. For those who won’t be attending the reception at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing Restaurant, they should arrange their own transportation to the Hilton after the play (Uber, Lyft, taxi, etc.)
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Registration table open 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.
8:30-10:00 AHCT Membership Meeting – Room: Del Norte I & II
(All members are encouraged to attend!)
In addition to the meeting, we will celebrate the careers of Donald T. Dietz and Charles Ganelin, we will present the 2018 Hesse Graduate Student Travel Grant, and we will present the following two edited collections: Making Sense of the Senses: Current Approaches in Spanish Comedia Criticism. Eds. Yolanda Gamboa and Bonnie Gasior. Juan de la cuesta, 2017 and Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain. Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Eds. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Peter Lang, 2017.
Session VIII (A): 11:00-12:30 – Room: Del Norte I
Moderator: Tim Foster, West Texas A&M University
11:00-11:30 “ ‘Babel del siglo’: Calderón and the Drama of Linguistic Confusion.”
Kathryn Vomero Santos, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
11:30-12:00 “The Tangible/Intangible Dialectic in La dama duende Towards (Im)possible
Performances of Calderón.”
Eduardo Paredes Ocampo, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
12:00-12:30 “La bancarrota del lenguaje: Dinero y Palabra en La verdad sospechosa, Juan Ruiz
de Alarcón.”
José Luis Suárez Morales, Indiana University
Session VIII (B): 11:00-12:30 – Room: Del Norte II
Roundtable: The Senses in the Comedia
Moderators: Bonnie Gasior, California State University, Long Beach and Yolanda Gamboa,
Florida Atlantic University
Participants: Bonnie Gasior, California State University, Long Beach; Yolanda Gamboa, Florida
Atlantic University; Steven Wagschal, Indiana University, Bloomington; Bruce
Burningham, Illinois State University; and Charles Ganelin, Miami University
Session VIII (C): 11:00-12:30 – Room: Del Norte III
Moderators: Harley Erdman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Gina Kaufmann,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Luis Vélez de Guevara’s The Mountain Girl from La Vera: Staged Reading of a New Translation.” Harley Erdman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Gina Kaufmann, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1:30-3:00 AHCT Banquet –Room: Del Norte II and III
(Tickets for pre-ordered lunches will be given to you at the Registration Table upon check-in. Please remember to bring your ticket to the banquet)
6:15 sharp Bus departs Hilton Garden Inn for Chamizal National Memorial Theatre National Memorial Theatre
7:00 Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, Chamizal National Memorial
El Merolico: Entremeses Bululuados performed by EFE TRES Teatro, Mexico
Roundtable discussion following the play, moderated by Tania de Miguel Magro
Tickets for performances at Chamizal National Memorial Theatre that you ordered online prior to the conference will be available for pick up at the registration table. If you did not reserve, you may be able to get these at the theater prior to the show. Please inquire at the registration table.