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Leo Cabranes-Grant Associate Professor Teaching Schedule, Office Hours & Location
TD West, Room 2511 Research Ph.D., Harvard UniversityProfessor Cabranes-Grant has a joint appointment in the Departments of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque Drama (Spain, England, Italy); Spanish, Latin-American and Caribbean Performance, and Intercultural Theory. His articles have been published in various journals: "Intercultural Poetics: Thinking for (and from) Diversity" (Profession '97, MLA); "Resisting Tragicomedy: Giraldi Cintio and the Oppsotion to Celestina" (Celestinesca, 1998); "Lope de Vega and the Debates Concerning the Origins of Spanish Language" (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 2000); "From Canzoniere to Miscellany: Lope de Vega's 'Rimas'" (@humanista, 2004); "Hidden Camera: The Photographic Theatre of Edgardo Rodriguez Julia" (Double Exposures: Photography and Writing in Latin America, Tierney-Tello and Schwartz, edts. University of New Mexico Press, 2006);"The Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neo-Baroque Mexican Identities" (forthcoming);" Theatricality and the Intercultural Experience: Derek Walcott and Luis Rafael Sanchez" (forthcoming); "Possession and Performance in Cuba and Jamaica" (forthcoming). He also has a book on Lope de Vega ( Lope de Vega and the Uses of Repetition, Pliegos, Madrid, 2004). As a playwright, Professor Cabranes-Grants work has been produced in Boston, San Juan, and Santa Barbara. His play "The Barda" won the Independent Award in Santa Barbara (2003), and his play "The Art of Painting" won the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture Award (2005) and was produced in San Juan (2006). As a director, he presented plays by Cervantes, Shakespeare, Beckett, Strindberg, Shepard, and Machaivelli at the "Undergroud Theatre" (Harvard University, 1989-1992) and he recently directed the world premiere of Monica Palacios "Sweet Peace" (2004), sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. At the moment, Professor Cabranes-Grant is writing a book about the links between theories of mediation and intercultural experiences ("Interscapes. Performing the Intercultural from Shakespeare to Walcott"). Contact
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