The XII International Conference on Literature

Memory and Imagination of Latin America and the Caribbean through the Oral and Written Paths

St. John's University

Queens, New York
October 12 to 14, 2016

Special Tribute
The 70 Anniversary of Gabriela Mistral's Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Passing of two Giants: Cervantes and Shakespeare (1616 - 2016)

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12

8:00-9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND COFFEE D’Angelo Center, Room 416 B

9:00-9:10 a.m. OPENING OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

LITERATURE
Marie-Lise Gazarian
Director, Graduate Program in Spanish, St. John´s University
Editor, “Entre Rascacielos,” Journal of Creative Writing
Vice-President for the Northeast, Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic
Honor Society;Member of PEN American Center

9:10-9:20 a.m. MESSAGE FROM CONRADO ¨BOBBY¨ GEMPESAW

President of St. John´s University

9:20-9:35 a.m. WELCOMING REMARKS

Simon Geir Møller
Senior Vice-Provost for Graduate Education and Research
Professor of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University
Chief Scientific Officer, Plastid AS (Limited), Norway
Senior Advisor, The Norwegian Centre for Movement Disorders,
Stavanger University Hospital

9:35-9:40 a.m. Carlos Huamán López, (Message)

Researcher, Center for Research on Latin America CIALC, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, UNAM, México; Coordinador General del Congreso
Internacional de Literatura, Memoria e Imaginación de Latinoamérica y el Caribe

9:40-9:45 a.m. Vicente Robalino

Professor and Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Presidente General del Congreso Internacional de Literatura, Memoria e Imaginación
de Latinoamérica y el Caribe

9:45-11:00 a.m. THE ART OF SCIENCE

Simon Geir Møller
Senior Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Research
Professor of Biological Sciences, St. John´s University

11:00-10:15 a.m. FORCES THAT WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE

H.E. Ahmad Kamal
Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations
Senior Fellow, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

11:15-11:30 a.m. COFFEE, PICTURE, AND NETWORKING

11:30-11:45 a.m. LOGROS DE LA MUJER EN LA DIPLOMACIA DEL PERÚ

H. E. Ambassador María Teresa Merino de Hart
Consul General of Peru in New York

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11:45-12:00 p.m. LA ANLE Y EL ESPAÑOL DE ESTADOS UNIDOS
Gerardo Piña Rosales
Director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy
Professor of Spanish, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Honorary President of Sigma Delta Pi

12:00 -12:15 p.m. PRIMEROS ESCRITOS: LA FLORIDA DE FRAY DE ESCOBEDO

NicolásToscano Liria
Professor of Spanish
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Spanish, St. John´s University
Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy
Editor of Anuario Medieval

12:15-12:30 p.m. Gabriela Mistral: Poet, Educator, Diplomat, and Humanist

Marie-Lise Gazarian

CLOSING MORNING REMARKS

12:30-1:50 p.m. LUNCH IN D’ANGELO, ROOM 416C

Session No. 1

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 1 D’Angelo Center, Room 416 B

GABRIELA MISTRAL: A MYSTIC POET

Moderator: Marie-Lise Gazarian

Director, Graduate Program in Spanish, St. John´s University

1:55-2:10 p.m. El monólogo dramático en la poesía de Gabriela Mistral

Marlene Gottlieb
Former Chair, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Manhattan College

2:10-2:25 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 2

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 2 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104

LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS – Part I

Moderator: Nathalie York

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

1:55-2:10 p.m. Otro mito, otro archivo, otra historia. La muerte de Trotsky de Guillermo Cabrera
Infante
Ana Fernanda Aguilar Alatorre
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México

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2:10-2:25 p.m. Travestir la réalité par le costume verbal : vers une hybridité discursive dans
l'oeuvre de Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Ŝárka Novotná
Université Masaryk de Brno, Czech Republic

2:40-2:55 p.m. La ficción como liberación, sobrevivencia y manipulación en la obra de Luisa

Valenzuela y Manuel Puig
Sergio Andruccioli
Florida International University, Miami, Florida

2:55-3:10 p.m. Poesía social después del compromiso: Algunas rutas de lectura desde la tradición
mexicana contemporánea
Jorge Aguilera López
Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

3:10-3:25 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 3

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 3 St. John Hall, Room 314

ORALITY AND MEMORY IN LITERATURE

Moderator: Stève Puig

Assistant Professor of French
French Coordinator Languages and Literatures, St. John´s University

1:55-2:10 p.m. La palabra detrás de la memoria de los pueblos

Deysi Carolina Benalcázar Jácome
Unidad Patricular Educativa Pensionado Universitario, Ecuador

2:10-2:25 p.m. Memoria de una nación: la legendaria familia del Rey Cosijoeza
Victoria Margarita Salazar Canseco
Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma Benito
Juárez de Oaxaca, México

2:25-2:40 p.m. La tradición oral como una herramienta de la etnoeducación en el pueblo

afroecuatoriano
Víctor Hugo Zambrano Zambrano via SKYPE
Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador

2:40-2:55 p.m. The Princess and The Slave: The Constrasting Worlds of Women's Travel
Testimony in 19th Century Europe
Lora Jury
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

2:55-3:10 p.m. Estudios de la memoria en la producción cultural latinoamericana

John Cruz
MA in Spanish, St John´s University; presently Ph.D. Candidate at Ohio State
University

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3:10-3:25 p.m. Espejo reconstruido. Historia de una obra perdida y de una revolución por hacer
Patrizia Di Patre
Adjunct Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

3:25-3:40 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 4

3 :05- 3 :10 p.m. SESSION 4 D’Angelo Center, Room 416 B

THE THIN LINE BETWEEN FICTION AND REALITY

Moderator: José Ignacio Félix

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

3:10-3:25 p.m. La inmersión en dos mundos posibles

Carlos Aulestia Páez
Facultad de Comunicación, Lingüística y Literatura, Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Ecuador

3:25-3:40 p.m. La contrahistoria desde las cloacas: Un asesino solitario de Élmer Mendoza
Armando Escobar Gómez
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

3:40-3:55 p.m. El cuerpo socioculturalmente construido de las buchonas: las mujeres de los narcos
Eric Vega Breceda
Universidad de Guadalajara, México

3:55-4:10 p.m. L'écriture du réel ou le réel d'une écriture dans Partir de Tahar Ben Jelloun et
Harraga de Boualem Sansal
Syrine Bahri
Professeur à l'Institut Français de Tunis, Tunisia

4:10-4:25 p.m. Josefa Acevedo de Gómez: predicadora de la página de ficción y

ansiedad de autoría
Mélida Sánchez
St. John´s University and Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York

4:25-4:40 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 5
3:15-3:20 p.m. SESSION 5 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104
LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS – Part II

Moderator: Christopher Kennedy

Candidate, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

3:20-3:35 p.m. Espacio y tiempo en la obra de Augusto Roa Bastos, escritor paraguayo
Fabiola Díaz Guevara
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador
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3:35-3:50 p.m. El topas andino en la narrativa de César Dávila Andrade
Alejandro Gordillo
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador
3:50-4:05 p.m. Epistemología, poética y poder: Arguedas más allá del indigenismo
Gabriel Rudas-Burgos
Stony Brook University, New York

4:05-4:20 p.m. La presencia de marginales y subversivos en dos novelas de Juan Filloy:

Caterva y ¡Estafen!
Sonia Tejada
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York
4:20-4:35 p.m. Dalton y la poesía conversacional salvadoreña
Rafael Dueñas
Stony Brook University, Nueva York
4:35-4:50 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 6

3:45-3:50 p.m. SESSION 6 St. John Hall, Room 314

CROSSING BOUNDARIES: NEW IDENTITIES AT THE CROSSROADS

Moderator: Stephen Puckett-Humphrey

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

3:50-4:05 p.m. Nación y literatura: prólogos para un país en disputa

Rebeca Pineda-Burgos
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York

4:05-4:20 p.m. Aquellos 'jovenzuelos' no son el hombre nuevo: Reinaldo Arenas y su denuncia a la
homofobia castrista
Leonor M. Taiano C.
Universidad de Tromso, Norway / UTPL, Spain

4:20-4:35 p.m. Un oasis de horror en medio de un desierto de aburrimiento Roberto Bolaño y

el arte de narrar
Lucas Bidon-Chanel
Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas – Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lengua
Vivas “Juan R. Fernández”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

4:35-4:50 p.m. A New Architectural Language With the Use of Stainless Steel
Monica Sarmiento Castillo
Director, bi/Coa: base Iberoamerican / Community of the Two Americas, New York
MA in Spanish at St. John´s NY; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

4:50-5:05 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

8:30-9:15 a.m. REGISTRATION AND COFFEE D’Angelo Center, Room 416 C

9:15-9:30 a.m. OPENING REMARKS

Marie-Lise Gazarian
Director, Graduate Program in Spanish, St. John´s University

9:30-9:50 a.m. Shakespeare and Cervantes: Imagining Reality

Steven Mentz
Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies, The Department of English, St. John´s University

9:50-10:10 a.m. L´Enseignement du français dans un contexte multilingüe

Clément Mbom
Researcher and Professor of French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures at
Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York

10:10-10:30 a.m. Major Cuban Literary Figures Since the Revolution / Las figuras literarias
cubanas más destacadas a partir de la Revolución
Alina Camacho-Gingerich
Director of St. John’s University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
(CLACS), Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Literature
10:30-11:00 a.m. COFFEE, PICTURES, AND NETWORKING

Session No. 7

11:00-11:05 a.m. SESSION 7 D’Angelo Center, Room 416 C

CORTÁZAR: WORDS HOPSCOTCHING ON THE BLANK PAGE

Moderator: José Ignacio Félix

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

11:05-11:20 a.m. El lector ideal en Rayuela de julio Cortázar y por la patria de Diamela Eltit
Andrés Felipe Arroyave
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

11:20-11:35 a.m. Le tour du jour en quatre-vingts mondes de Julio Cortázar: un voyage,

tous les voyages.
Houda Ben Ghacham
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Kairouan, Tunisia

11:35-11:50 a.m. “Photography and Neobaroque Imagination in Julio Cortázar “Las babas del
diablo” Can Neobaroque Name a Photograph?
Liana Hakobyan
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

11:50 -12:05 p.m. La “Rayuela incompleta” de la identidad en el mundo globalizado

Tamara Morgan
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

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12:05-12:25 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER
12:25-12:30 p.m. CLOSING MORNING REMARKS
Marie-Lise Gazarian
12:30-1:50 p.m. LUNCH IN D’ANGELO, ROOM 416 C

Session No. 8

11:00-11:05 a.m. SESSION 8 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104

REMAKING HISTORY IN POP AND FOLK MUSIC

Moderator: Elizabeth Jiménez

Candidate, MA in Spanish, St John’s University

11:05-11:20 a.m. Memoria, cultura y denuncia: La música del grupo “Puya” como vehículo
de identidad
Jorge Alejandro Cruz Domínguez via SKYPE
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

11:20-11:35 a.m. De letras pop, nota roja y otras movidas: la literatura de la movida madrileña y su
papel en la España posfranquista
Jonathan Abdul Maldonado Adame
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

11:35-11:50 a.m. La (in)visibilidad del negro en “Ligia Elena” de Rubén Blades y “El carbonerito”
de El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
Kadiri Vaquer Fernandez
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
11:50-12:05 p.m. El cóndor pasa magia y ensueño a partir de Paul Simon.
Óscar Ramírez Trujillo
Instituto Superior de Musica Publico
Daniel Alomia Robles Huanuco-Peru
12:05-12:15 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER
12:15- 12:20 p.m.
CLOSING MORNING REMARKS
Marie-Lise Gazarian

12:30-1:50 p.m. LUNCH IN D’ANGELO, ROOM 416 C

Session No. 9

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 9 D’Angelo Center, Room 416 C

MISREPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURES

Moderator: Tyler Matthew Fogle

Candidate MA in Spanish, St. John´s University

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1:55-2:10 p.m. Los sacrificios de la masculinidad en “El Lugar sin límites”
Yu Rim Kim
University of Texas at Austin

2:10-2:25 p.m. "Provincializzare" L'Italia postunitaria attraverso "L'andare lenti" ne i

malavoglia
Cristina Carnemolla
University of Oregon

2:40-2:55 p.m. Un escritor, un teólogo, un político y el trasfondo de la modernidad

Argentina peronista
Elena Picech Reisinger
Murray State University, Murry, Kentucky

2:55-3:25 p.m. La imagen del indígena en el periodismo yucateco de la guerra de castas

Rocío Leticia Cortés Campos, Celia Esperanza Rosado Avilés
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México

3:25-3:40 p.m. "Puruhá", poesía e historia

Lourdes Jacqueline Costales Terán
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

3:40-3:55 p.m. La inclusión de indígena en la estética de la nación: Cumandá de Juan León Mera
y algunas obras de la plástica ecuatoriana
Ximena Grijalva-Calero
Associate Dean, Cultural Studies, Univeridad Central del Ecuador

3:55-4:05 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 10

1:50-1:50 p.m. SESSION 10 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104

BODY AND GENDER

Moderator: Olga Mariela Bonilla

Stony Brook University, New York
Recipient of The Turner Fellowship Award

1:55-2:10 p.m. Cuerpos sin órganos: sexualidad y escritura en la narrativa de Juan García Ponce
Maira Yazmín Colín García
Universidad Iberoamericana, México

2:10-2:25 p.m. Las mal paradas: La feminización de la migración latinoamericana en España y su

representación en el cine
Olga Mariela Bonilla
MA in Spanish, St John’s University
Stony Brook University, New York

2:25-2:40 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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Session No. 11

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 11 Council Hall, Conference Room

MYTHS AND PREHISPANIC LEGENDS
Moderator: Carolina Mourelle
Candidate, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
1:55-2:10 p.m. Teriomorfismo en leyendas mexicanas y de América Latina
Alejandra Sánchez Galicia
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

2:10-2:25 p.m. Investissement mythique et fonctionnement allégorique dans 2084 "La fin du
monde¨ de Boualem Sansai
Sabrina Zouagui
Universite Abderrahmane Mira Bejaia, Algeria

2:25-2:40 p.m. Mito, Modernización y poética en “el zorro de arriba” y “el zorro de abajo” de
José María Arguedas
Henry Cesar Sucari Rivas via SKYPE
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias, Universidad Privada del Norte

2:40-2:55 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 12

4:05-4:10 p.m. SESSION 12: D’Angelo Center, Room 416 C

MEDICINE, ART AND HEALTH

Moderator: Mónica Sarmiento Castillo

Director, bi/Coa: base Iberoamerican / Community of the Two Americas, New York
MA in Spanish, St. John´s NY; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

4:10-4:25 p.m. Innovación en los métodos de formación del equipo de salud: hacia una nueva
escuela de enfermeras
Olga Guillermina Castillo Costa
Director and Professor of the Nursing School, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
(UTPL), Ecuador

4:25-4:40 p.m. Incorporación de nuevas metodologías de educación en pacientes especiales:

terapia y salud
Blanca Rodríguez
Director of Nurse Department, John A. Coleman School, New York

4:40-4:55 p.m. Medicine, Art and Health / Medicina / Arte y salud

Juan Enrique Mezzich
Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Founding
President, International College of Personal Centered Medicine
Mónica Sarmiento Castillo
4:55-5:10 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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Session No. 13

2:45-2:50 p.m. SESSION 13 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104

OTHER FEMINIST REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCOURSES

Moderator: Nathalie York

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John´s University
2:50-3:05 p.m. Discurso feminista en “La mujer de Lot” de Verónica Murguía
María América Luna-Martínez
Profesora investigadora, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, México

3:05-3:20 p.m. “Canción de cuna”. Una visión de la maternidad en la obra de Inés Arredondo
Beatriz Eugenia Méndez Carniado
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

3:20-3:35 p.m. La imagen de las mujeres en la literatura manabita, siglo XX

Vielka de las Mercedes Palomeque Guillén
Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Portoviejo, Ecuador

3:35-3:50 p.m. Memoria, fabulación e historia: Redescubriendo a Dolores Veintimilla

María Helena Barrera-Agarwal
Researcher and Lawyer, Ecuador

3:50-4:05 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 14

3:00-3:05 p.m. SESSION 14 Council Hall, Conference Room

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Moderator: José Ignacio Félix

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St John’s University

3:05-3:20 p.m. A History for a New World: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Evolving Approach
to the Areíto
Elizabeth Gansen
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

3:35-3:50 p.m. The Design of Part One of La Araucana: Doña Mencía, Lautaro and Guacolda,
and Ercilla's Arrival to Chile
Bryce Winter Maxey
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

3:50-4:05 p.m. Writing and Memory in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Comentarios (1555)
Pablo Pastrana-Pérez
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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4:05-4:20 p.m. ¿Memoria o imaginación poética?: El canto a los emperadores incas en la Historia
del origen (1590) de Martín de Murúa
Beatriz Carolina Peña
Queens College, CUNY, New York

4:20-4:35 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 15

5:05-5:10 p.m. SESSION 15 D’Angelo Center, Room 416 C

POETRY OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, MUSIC, AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Moderator: Luz Marina Ruiz

MA in Spanish, St. John´s University
Farmingdale State College, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York

5:10-5:25 p.m. Los bordes de lo visible y lo representable: el devenir de la imagen en poesia y

fotografia
Christina Elena Pardo Porto
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York

5:25-5:40 p.m. Candelario Obeso y la poesía negra en Colombia

Luz Marina Ruiz
MA in Spanish, St. John´s University
Farmingdale State College, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York

5:40-5:55 p.m. Petrificada, petrificante: La ciudad de México en la obra de Octavio Paz

Rafael Hernández
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut

5:55-6:10 p.m. Rompiendo los moldes del género: Gabriela Mistral, poeta en prosa
Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

6:10-6:25 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 16

4:10-4:15 p.m. SESSION 16 GLCC, St. John´s Hall, Room 104

CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA IDENTIDAD / CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

Moderator: Nuria Morgado

Associate Professor World Languages and Literatures, College of Staten Island
Director books ALDEEU

4:15-4:30 p.m. Construcción de la identidad juvenil en tiempo transcurrido (Crónicas

imaginarias) de Juan Villoro, desde la visión moral de Charles Taylor
Tanya Graciela Guerrero González
Profesor, Universidad Autónoma de México, México

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4:30-4:45 p.m. La minga como construcción física e imaginaria de San Gabriel, Carchi, Ecuador
Vicente Robalino Caicedo
Profesor e Investigador, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador

4:45-5:00 p.m. La virgen de los sicarios a la nueva novela testimonial latinoamericana:

¿Es posible seguir repensando el género?
Isabel Domínguez Seoane
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York

5:00-5:15 p.m. Nature and Otherness and how they Mediate our Understanding of Sacredness
and Knowledge
Sophia Yanez
Faculty of Social Communication, Universidad Central de Ecuador

5:15- 5:30 QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 17

4:40-4:45 p.m. SESSION 17 Council Hall, Conference Room

NEW APPROACHES IN PEDAGOGY AND TEACHING

Moderator: Tyler Matthew Fogle

Candidate MA in Spanish, St. John´s University

4:45-5:00 p.m. Fundamentals First: A Strategy to Facilitate English Language Learning

Jennifer Aguilera
Professor of ESL, St. John´s University

5:00-5:15 p.m. A Secret Hideout: Young Adult Literature in College in ESL

Ninah Beliavsky
Associate Professor and the Coordinator of ESL in the Department of Languages and
Literatures at St. John’s University

5:15-5:30 p.m. Teaching Language and Culture Through Travel and Technology
Garrett Fisher
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina

5:30-5:45 p.m. Cadences as Preformulations in Tonal Music

Daniel Beliavsky
Yeshiva University, New York

5:45 – 5:50 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

5:50- 6:05 p.m. Lingüística y adquisición de segunda lengua:

La lingüística y la metodología AICLE
Myriam Cherro-Samper
Universidad de Alicante

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6:05-6:35 p.m. Linguistic Choreography: Where Formulaic Meets Creativity
Ninah Beliavsky
Clyde Coreil
M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the City
University of New York

6:35 -6:45 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

8:30-9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION D’Angelo Center, Room 128

9:00-9:15 a.m. OPENING REMARKS

Marie-Lise Gazarian
Director, Graduate Program in Spanish, St. John´s University

WELCOMING REMARKS
Robert Mangione
Provost, St. John’s University
Vice-President for Academic Affairs

9:15-9:35 a.m. A message from Sevilla, Spain (simultaneously broadcast via Webex)
DAC 128 and Global Language and Culture Center, Room 104, St. John Hall
Languages as a Passport to Culture: A Call for Allies
Matthew Pucciarelli
Associate Vice President, Global Studies, St. John's University

9:35-10:00 a.m. Giovanni Meli: Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza: A Sicilian Don Quijote
Gaetano Cipolla
Former Chair and Professor Emeritus of Italian at St. John’s University
President and Editor of Arba Sicula, Mineola, New York

10:00-10:40 a.m. El oficio de escritor

Raúl Pérez Torres (simultaneous interpretation by Elizabeth Larraondo Illakostas)
Renowned Ecuadorian Writer
President of Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión, Quito, Ecuador

10:40-10:55 a.m. Interpretation Versus Translation: The Role of the Expert Witness
Elizabeth Larraondo Illakostas
MA in Spanish, St. John's University
Certified Court Interpreter, The United States Department of Justice

10:55-11:00 a.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

11:00-11:20 a.m. COFFEE, PICTURE, AND NETWORKING

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11:20-11:25 a.m. SESSION 18 D’Angelo Center, Room 128

WHAT MAKES THE WRITER WRITE

Moderator: Fiorentina Russo

Associate Professor of Italian
Coordinator of Italian, Department Languages and Literatures, St. John's University
11:25-11:40 a.m. The Seduction of the word. Dante and Bécquer: A Comparative Reading
Fiorentina Russo
Professor, St. John's University

11:40-11:55 p.m. Presentation of Aurea mediocritas, a literary essay on El libro vacío (The Empty
Book), by Josefina Vicens.
Manuel R. Montes
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

11:55 a.m.-12:10 p.m. Haciendo bulla con la pluma: escritores quechua hablantes redefinen
el cañón literario
Cedar S. Weyker
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York

12:10-12:25 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

12:05- 12:10 p.m. CLOSING MORNING REMARKS
Marie-Lise Gazarian
12:30-1:50 p.m. LUNCH IN D’ANGELO, ROOM 128

Session No.19

11:20-11:25 a.m. SESSION 19 GLCC, St. John´s Hall, Room 104

RELIGION AND FAITH

Moderator: Nathaly York

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

11:25-11:40 a.m. “Entonces se unieron el cielo y la tierra. La multiplicidad de la transculturación en

la conformación de la regla Osha-Ifá en Cuba”
Hugo García
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington

11:40-11:55 a.m

11:55-12:10 p.m. “Chocolate” as an Object of Religious and Intellectual Subversion in

Fray Jerónimo de Pancorvo
Mabel González Quiroz
Queens College, CUNY, New York

12:10-12:20 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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12:30- 12:30 p.m. CLOSING MORNING REMARKS
Marie-Lise Gazarian
12:30-1:50 p.m. LUNCH IN D’ANGELO, ROOM 128

Session No. 20

11:20-11:25 a.m. SESSION 20 Marillac Hall, Room 425

MESA DE NARRATIVA Y POESIA “ENTRE RASCACIELOS”

Introduction by Milton Fernando Romero Obando

MA. in Spanish, St. John´s University; Independent Consultant for the Conference
Member of the Committee of the International Conference on Literature: Memory and
Imagination of Latin America and the Caribbean through the Oral and Written Paths

Entrevistadora: Marie-Lise Gazarian

Raúl Pérez Torres
Manuel R. Montes

11:25 - 11:50 a.m. Moderador: Eduardo Mitre

Poet and Scholar
Professor of Spanish, St. John’s University

Vicente Robalino, Ecuador

Sofia Yánez, Ecuador
Jorge Aguilera, Mexico
Kadiri Vaker, Puerto Rico
Fabiola Díaz, Ecuador
Milton Romero, Ecuador
Raúl Pérez Torres, Ecuador
María Barrera Agarwal, Ecuador
Armando Láscar, Chile
Tomas Galán, Dominican Republic

11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Moderator: Marie-Lise Gazarian

Ana Cevallos Carrión, Ecuador

Joyce Sanchez, New York
Amado Láscar, Chile
Andrei Bezzubicoff, Perú
Eduardo Mitre, Bolivia
Miguel Falquez-Certain, Colombia
Julio Jesus Zelaya Simbr’on, Perú
Tomás Galán, Dominican Repúblic
William Marín Osorio, Colombia
Ramiro Dávila Grijalva, Ecuador
Miguel Vásquez, Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico

12:10-12:25 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

12:25- 12:30 p.m. CLOSING MORNING REMARKS
Marie-Lise Gazarian
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12:30-1:50 p.m. LUNCH IN D’ANGELO, ROOM 128

Session No. 21

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 21 D’Angelo Center, Room 128

RECREATING MEMORY ON STAGE (divided in two segments)

Moderator: Nathalie York

Graduate Assistant, MA in Spanish, St. John’s University

1:55-2:10 p.m. La vanguardia como artículo de todo a 100. Varguardia y Kitsch / kitsch y
Vanguardia en “El beso de la mujer araña”
Diego Zorita Arroyo
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

2:10-2:20 p.m. Neplantera de la frontera: representación e identidad de la doméstica en Babel

Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
Associate Professor of Spanish
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

2:20 - 2:30 p.m. L'Éffacement de la dramatique ou l'impossibilité de dire dans le

Théâtre de Jean-Luc Lagarce
Wafa Mahjoub
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

2:30-2:40 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

2:40 -2:55 p.m. El desenmascaramiento del ser patriarcal en la obra de Yánez Cossío
José Guzman
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Humanities Faculty,
Lasell College, Newton, Massachusetts

2:55-3:10 p.m. La fiesta del chivo: un drama en Nueva York

Gabriela Díaz-Dávalos
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3:10-3:25 p.m. Meirelles' and Lund's Cidade de Deus as Derridean archive: two consignments
through the rubric of postcolonial theory
Laura Keyt
Spanish Instructor, Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, Vermont

3:25-3:40 p.m. El extractivismo y las consecuencias sociales en Latinoamérica

Wendy Ureña
Department of Romance Language and Literature,
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
3:40-3:50 p.m. QUESTIONS AND ANSWER

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Session No. 22

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 22 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104

CHILE: MEMORY AND TRAUMA

Moderator: Joyce Sanchez

1:55-2:10 p.m. Memoria y resistencia "a la chilena", sujeto jurídico y militancia en las
representaciones televisivas de la dictadura
Natalia Castro Picón
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York

2:10-2:25 p.m. Objetivos y oralidad: de la memoria de clase a la construcción de una memoria

histórica nacional en Machuca
Héctor Iglesias Pascual
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

2:25-2:40 p.m. Lo que viene después: La narrativa de Alejandro Zambra y las fronteras
de la memoria de Chile
Samuel Rutter
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

2:40-2:55 p.m. El control de los deseos y la disputa por el poder: una aproximación a
la obra de María Carolina Geel
Ornella Belén Lorca Vera
Universidad Austral de Chile
2:55-3:10 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 23

1:50-1:55 p.m. SESSION 23 Marillac Hall, Room 111

LITERATURE AND INTERCULTURAL REALITY
Moderator: Stève Puig
Assistant Professor of French
French Coordinator Languages and Literatures, St. John´s University

1:55-2:10 p.m. Enjeux identitaires: l'identité entre réalité historique et conflit politique
Hadjar Sonia Djebli Safa
Université de Tébessa, Argelia

2:10-2:25 p.m. Littérature et interculturalité à l'Université Marocaine

Khouloud El Masrar
Université Chouaib Doukkali, Marocco

2:25-2:40 p.m. Educación financiera, un escudo ante la crisis narrativa económica

Germania del Pilar Sarmiento Castillo
Economista, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador

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2:40-2:55 p.m. Blanche-Neige et Blancanieves: Etude comparative
Maha Gad El Hak
Université du Caire français, Gizeh, Egypt

2:55-3:10 p.m. The Mystic of Exile and Tropicalism: Teresa de Jesús, Gabriela, Mistral and
Mercedes García Tudurí
Almudena Vidorreta
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York

3:10-3:25 p.m. Literatura, historia y política

Julio Jesus Zelaya Simbron
MA in Spanish, St. John´s University

3:25-3:40 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 24:

4:15-4:20 p.m. SESSION 24 D’Angelo Center, Room 128

WAR, DISPLACEMENT, AND SUBJECTIVITY

Moderator: Joyce Sanchez

Founder Intercultural Cardboard Press, New York

4:20-4:35 p.m. Subjetividad e historia en las crónicas “Como un golpe de Boogie el Aceitoso” de
Arturo Alape y “la derrota” de Alfredo Molano
Julieth Paola Losada Muñoz
Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia

4:35-4:50 p.m. Blind to the Genocide: Garifuna Women Perspective on Life in Livingston During
the Guatemalan Civil War
Daisy Guzman Núñez
University of Texas at Austin

4:50-5:05 p.m. Auto Entnography of My Postcolonial, Intercultural and Feminist Self: Social
Poetry Border Songs Salmos de Fronteras
Joyce Sanchez
Founded Intercultural Cardboard Press, New York

5:05-5:20 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 25:

3:15-3:20 p.m. SESSION 25 GLCC, St. John Hall, Room 104

VIOLENCE AND DICTATORSHIP
Moderator: Joyce Sanchez
Founded Intercultural Cardboard Press, New York
3:20-3:35 p.m. Orphaned Memory
Adriana Rosman-Askot
The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township, New Jersey
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3:35-3:50 p.m. “Habitantes de las Regiones mesopotámica y pampeana de la Argentina”
Ángeles Ibarra
MA in Spanish, St. John´s University

3:50-4:05 p.m. Crímen como anzuelo: Memoria traumática y sus reconstrucciones en la novela
'Una misma noche' de Leopoldo Brizuela
Jelena Mihailović
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York

4:05-4:20 p.m. El desierto habitado: Intertextualidad, parodia y otredad en la novela de Tadeys

de Osvaldo Lamborghini
Zyanya Mariana Ascencio Mejía
Departamento de letras modernas, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México

4:20-4:35 p.m. El dramaturgo que no fue: el teatro de Jorge Icaza

Juan Carlos Grijalva
Assumption College, Worchester, Massachusetts

4:50-5:05 p.m. Cristina Peri Rossi entre el exilio y el género

Ángel M. Díaz-Dávalos
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5:05-5:20 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Session No. 26

3:25-3:30 p.m. SESSION 26 MARILLAC, ROOM 234

DISCURSO, IMAGEN E INTERPRETACIÓN

3:30-3:45 p.m. Narratives of Science Communication

Aquiles Negrete Yankelevich
Professor of Science Comunication, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
UNAM, México

3:45- 4:00 p.m Interdiscursividad y anacronismo: sobre la escritura de mundos en imágenes, el

caso de Farabeuf
Luis Fernando Serna Covarrubias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/ Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm

4:00-4:15 p.m. Libro y performance: El caso de las veladas literarias de Juana Manuela Gorriti
Elena E. Chavez Goycochea
The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY

4:15-4:30 p.m. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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 GALA DINNER Marillac Terrace

CLOSING REMARKS

5:00-5:15 p.m. Kathryn T. Hutchinson, Ph.D.

Vice President for the Division of Student Affairs
Co-Chair the President’s Multicultural Advisory Committee
The University’s Executive Planning Committee
The Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees.

5:00-7:00 p.m. MUSICAL INTERLUDE

PALABRAS DE DESPEDIDA

Marie-Lise Gazarian
Milton Fernando Romero Obando
Vicente Robalino

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PROFESSIONAL CONGRESS ORGANIZERS, ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK

Marie-Lise Gazarian
Ph.D. Columbia University
Director, Graduate Program in Spanish, St. John´s University
Director and host of the International Conference on Literature at St. John´s University
Vice-President for the Northeast, Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
Moderator of Epsilon Kappa, St. John’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi
Founder and co-editor Journal of Creative Writing “Entre Rascacielos”
Member PEN American Center

Milton Fernando Romero Obando

Independent Consultant for the Conference
MA. in Spanish, St. John´s University
Member of the Committee of the International Conference on Literature: Memory and Imagination of Latin
America and the Caribbean through the Oral and Written Paths

Myrna Lillian Fuentes M.A.

Director of Logistics
MA. in Spanish, St. John´s University
Life member, Epsilon Kappa, St. John’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi
Teacher at St. John´s University and York College
MA Candidate in Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Mónica Sarmiento Castillo

Multimedia Marketing Director
MA. in Spanish, St. John´s University
Ph.D. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Director, bi/Coa: base Iberoamerican / Community of the Two Americas, New York
Member, Epsilon Kappa, St. John’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi

collaborators:

Nieves Almagro Alonso

Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Suffolk County Community College
Center for Survey Research. Department of Political Sciences
Co-editor, Entre Rascacielos, Epsilon Kappa, St. John’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi

Alex Lima
Teacher and Poet
MA. in Spanish, St. John´s University
Ph.D. The Graduate Center, New York
Adjunct Instructor at Farmingdale State College
Co-editor, Entre Rascacielos, Epsilon Kappa, St. John’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi

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 GUEST ARTISTS

Luca Mazzara, Italia - FOOT ON FACE

Curro Leyton, España - QUIJOTE DEL SIGLO XXI

Special thanks to

Undergraduate, BA/MA and MA Students in Spanish at St. John’s University

and to members of Epsilon Kappa, St. John’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi,
the National Hispanic Honor Society

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 Gabriela Mistral receiving the Nobel Prize
for Literature from King Gustav of Sweden

Quitote del Siglo XXI by Curro Leyton, Spain

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