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Gastón A. Alzate
Associate
Professor
of Latin American Theater and Literature.
Editor of KARPA
-Journal of Theatrical and Visual Culture Criticism-
College
of Arts and Letters
Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - LOS ANGELES
Office: King Hall - A3039
Phone: 1-323-343-2267
Fax: 1-323-434-4234
E-mail:
galzate@calstatela.edu
Photo exhibitions:
Chichen-Itzá, Tijuana, El Pathos Maya, Mérida, Mazatlán,
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SPAN 000 - 4:20 - 8:10 p.m. KH-B-1017
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 INTRODUCTION
Ceremonial Mask, Calima
Culture, c.100 BC.
I am from Cali (Valle del Cauca), Colombia. Currently I am Associate
Professor of Spanish at Cal State where I teach Latin
American
Theater
and Literature. Previously, I was Director of Latin American,
Latino,
and Caribbean Studies (LALACS) at Gustavus Adolphus
College (1999-2006). I also served as advisor for
the
Independent Study
group in Cuba, SPAN, University of Minnesota
(1999-2000),
coordinator
of the J-Term in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro (1998), Cuba
(2001),
Mexico (2002-2004) at Gustavus Adolphus College. I worked as
Research
Associate with David William Foster (1996-1997), and as
Teaching
Associate at Arizona State University
(1994-1996).
Before coming to the United States, I
studied music at the Real Conservatorio,
in Madrid (Spain), and received a BA in Colombian Literature, and an MA
in Art Criticism, focused on Latin American Art. I also worked as an
art critic for daily El Espectador,
and the Revista del Museo de Arte Moderno. In
Bogotá, I
also was Assistant Director of the Masters Program in Latin American
Literature (1994-1995), and Visiting Professor of Literature and
Humanities at Universidad Javeriana
(1992-1995). I also served as member of the consortium for curriculum
planning of the Masters in Latin American Art and Culture at
the Universidad del Rosario,
Bogotá (1994-1995). TOP
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RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
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"Cuatro dificultades para entender el cabaret mexicano contemporáneo". Revista Conjunto: [Casa de las Américas - Cuba] 148/149 (2009).
"A Translocal
Theatricality: Performing Counter(pos)modernity in Paquita la del
Barrio.” Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Performing Art . Edited by Jacqueline E. Bixler and Laurietz Seda. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 160-178. 2009.
"MA'TI NAATI KECH (No te entiendo): Grupo 'Maak Mayaab' (Gente que no abunda en el mundo. Yucatán, México. Karpa 2.1 (2009) http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/karpa//Karpa2.1/Site%20Folder/yucatan.html
"roesembergsandoval.com : En arte hay que conservar la línea dura". Karpa 2.1 (2009)
http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/karpa//Karpa2.1/Site%20Folder/rosembergsandova.html
"Dramaturgy, Citizenship, and Queerness: Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret". Latin American Perspectives [UC Riverside]. (forthcoming)
"Hacia una imaginería legítima: una visión del cine colombiano a partir de la obra de Luis Ospina". Edited by Maria Mercedes Jaramillo, . Universidade Fernando Pessoa. Nuestra America . Portugal, (forthcoming)
"El fin de la simulación: comentarios al cabaret masivo de Jesusa Rodríguez y Liliana Felipe. Las mujeres y la escena mexicana. Edited by Claudia Gidi . Universidad Veracruzana/El Milagro México, (forthcoming)
"Capocomicato y cannovaccio: el cabaret de Tito Vasconcelos". Internationa Theater Festival of Miami (2000-2010). Edited by Beatriz Rizk. (forthcoming)
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2009
Fernel Franco , Barrio San Antonio, Cali.
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TOP
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Research Fellow of the International Research Center
for Interweaving Performance Cultures, 2010-2011
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Ph.D
Mexican Contemporary Theater 1997
Arizona State University.
Tempe, Az. USA.
Master Latin American Art 1991
Universidad
del Rosario. Bogotá, Colombia.
B.A. Colombian Literature 1989
Universidad Javeriana.
Bogotá, Colombia.
Studies of Music Theory and
Composition 1980-1984
Real Conservatorio
Superior de Música y Canto, Madrid, Spain.
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Course
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Course Title
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Day & Time
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SPAN 100
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Elementary Spanish webct Lab for 100A
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SPAN 300-A
SPAN 315
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Advanced Grammar and
Composition webct CUENTOS
FANTÁSTICOS y fabulosos.
Spanish American
Civilization
webct
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SPAN 411
SPAN 413
SPAN 421
SPAN 435
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Spanish
American Literature I webct
Spanish
American Literature II webct
Contemporary Mexican
Literature webct
Rubén
Darío and Modernismo webct
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SPAN 475
SPAN 459
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Proseminar: Spanish
American Theater
Hispanic Play Production
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SPAN 545
SPAN 575
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Seminars:
Contemporary LatinAmerican Poetry webct
Queering Gender in Mexican Literature and Popular Cultures webct
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