FACULTY  


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Teaching Interests

Research

Publications

Educational Background

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MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) Gala.  CSULA table. Long Beach, CA, April 2009


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Narco encounter at Pomona College
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with artist Comes Piña,   Pomona, CA, April 9, 2009.

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 - A3031
Phone:  1-323-343-2267
Fax: 1-323-434-4234
E-mail: galzate@calstatela.edu
 

Microfilms:
El imperio contrAzteca,  Tajín,  Palenque,  BonampakHotel CaliforniaLos suramericanos  12.  Garzón,   TijuanaOrsay

Photo exhibitions:
Chichen-Itzá
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Tijuana,  El Pathos Maya,  MéridaMazatlán,
Salento.

Teatro en español:
Mariachi Quixote

O f f i c e  H o u r s   &   C l a s s e s

Monday

Tuesday

SPAN 100A-01 : 9:50PM - 11:30 AM: KH B3010

SPAN 100A-04 : 1:30PM -   3:10 PM: KH B3010

SPAN 300B-01 : 4:20PM -    6:00PM: KH B2014

Office hours:  6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

Wednesday


Thursday

SPAN 100A-05 : 1:30PM - 3:10PM : KH B3010

SPAN  421 -01 : 4:20PM - 6:00PM : KH B1021

SPAN 300A-01 : 6:10PM - 7:50PM : KH B3015

Office hours:  8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Friday

 

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  CALSTATELA Mariachi Águila de Oro

Golden Eagle Mariachi Band,
Los Angeles, December 3, 2009.


  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



RECENT  PUBLICATIONS
"Dramaturgy, Citizenship, and Queerness: Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret". Latin American Perspectives [UC Riverside] 37.1 (2010): 62-76.

"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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National Essay Award.
Ministerio de Cultura , Colombia, 1993. 

COMPLETE LIST OF Publications

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 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Research Fellow of the International Research Center
for Interweaving Performance Cultures, 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 LISTING.                                                                                                                                         DESCRIPCIÓN  DE  LAS  CLASES

Course

Course Title

Day & Time

Room

Quarter

 

SPAN 100A - 01/04

Elementary Spanish webct  Lab for 100A

 TU/TH : 1:30PM - 3:10PM
KH B3010

WINTER  10

SPAN  300-A
SPAN 300-B
SPAN 315
Advanced Grammar and Composition  webct 
Spanish American Civilization
webct 
TU/TH : 4:20PM - 6:00PM

KH B2015

 WINTER  10

SPAN 411

SPAN 413

SPAN 421

SPAN 435

Spanish American Literature webct 

Spanish American Literature II webct 

Contemporary Mexican Lit.    webct 

Rubén Darío and Modernismo webct 


TU/TH : 6:10 a 7:50 p.m.




KH B 3010


SPRING 2010

SPAN 475

SPAN 459

Proseminar: Spanish American Theater 

Hispanic Play Production


 

SPAN 500

SPAN 545

SPAN 575

Academic Writing in  Spanish

Contemporary LatinAmerican Poetry webct  

Queering Gender in Mexican      Literature and Popular Cultures webct 

TU/TH : 8:00 a 9:40 p.m.




KH B 3009

SPRING 2010