These sessions are open and free to the public.

Thursday, March 27

Jean Graham-Jones
"Un vacío crítico: los traslados al norte del teatro argentino"

Jean Graham-Jones is Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and former editor of the Theatre Journal, the flagship journal of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Graham-Jones is one of the leading US scholars on questions of performance, with a specialization in theatre of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay). She was previously a faculty member at Florida State University, where she was coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and adviser/producer of the campus Spanish-language theatre group, Teatro Latino. She is the author of Exorcising History: Argentine Theater under Dictatorship and the editor/translator of Reason Obscured: Nine Plays by Ricardo Monti and BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation. She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, and has also worked extensively as a director and performer.

Friday, March 28

Jorge Huerta
"From the Margins to the Mainstream: US Latina/o Theatre in the U.S."

Jorge Huerta holds a Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair as Professor of Theatre at the University of California-San Diego. He is a leading authority on contemporary Chicano and US Latino/a Theatre as well as a professional director. Huerta has directed in theatres across the country, including the San Diego Repertory, Seattle’s Group Theatre, Washington D.C.'s Gala Hispanic Theatre, La Compañía de Teatro de Albuquerque and New York's Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre. He has published a number of articles, edited three anthologies of plays and two landmark books: Chicano Theatre: Themes and Forms (Bilingual Press 1982) and Chicano Drama: Performance, Society, and Myth (Cambridge 2000).

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