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Introduction To Analyzing Sources, Tiffany Simoncelli

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Fall 2014

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A farewell to Dean Suchar; Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies program gains traction; New director brings fresh perspective to public service at DePaul; Discover Chicago commemorates 20th anniversary; Exchange opportunities abound between DePaul, Fudan universities; In brief; Student awards and presentations; Faculty publications; Scholarship success story; DePaul prepares alumnus for future in government, housing

Around Campus

DePaul Magazine

Richard H. Driehaus, William Farley Share Wisdom with Students; College of Communication Holds Symposium on Violence, Civil Rights Activist and Educator Bob Moses Recalls Freedom Summer, Filmmakers Timothy and Stephen Quay Receive First Humanities Laureate Award; DePaul Art Museum Exhibit Illuminats Political Protest; School of Music Spring Concert a Russian-Hungarian Rhapsody; Blue Demons Go on Sweet Ride in NCAA Tournament; Women's Basketball Wins Academic National Championship; Women's Tennis Makes Program History, Wins BIG EAST Title; Tennis Phenom Kelsey Lawson Closes Brilliant Career; Track Teams Place High at BIG EAST Championships; Men's Tennis Finishes Second at BIG EAST Championships; Blue Demon …

Play From The Heart: On Crafting A Community Of Empathy In The Theatre, Kevin Kingston

The Theatre School MFA in Directing Theses

The power of story goes beyond mere escapist entertainment. Yes it should entertain, but that is not the ultimate goal. It may even offer a bit of escape, but again this is not the holy grail. When we experience a well-crafted narrative, we are called to cross a threshold. We pass through the door of our own life and enter into the experience of another. This is what we mean when we say we "got lost" in the story. We take on the experience of another as our own. When a group of people experience a narrative they cross this …

A Method To The Madness: My Quest For A New System Of Acting, Michael Osinski

The Theatre School MFA in Directing Theses

How does one get actors to embrace work and imbue it with the same truth they bring to realistic theatre and how does one prevent them from turning into robots performing meaningless gestures? How does one work in experimental ways while still giving actors something human to hang onto? This thesis will examine a new system of acting to embrace the demands of the work and explore how to articulate and collaborate with actors to create the work.

Unaffiliated Lay Vincentians' Informal Engagement With The Vincentian Mission, Jonathan Wiggins, Mark Gray, James Fangmeyer

Mission and Ministry Publications

In winter 2013, DePaul University’s Office of Mission and Values (OMV) commissioned the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University to conduct a survey of “unaffiliated lay Vincentians,” that is young adults between the ages of 18 to 35 who have had a formative experience in the Vincentian mission either as a student or as a post-graduate volunteer at a Vincentian institution. The central purpose of this research is to help OMV explore these unaffiliated lay Vincentians’ understanding of their experiences with the Vincentian mission, their commitment to that mission, and their desire for more formation …

Spread The Word! A Look At The Development Of Communication Technology, Sue Leahy

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Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire Spring 2014

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Pipo Nguyen-Duy Interview, Emily Flanagan

Asian American Art Oral History Project

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Pipo Nguyen-duy was born in Hue, Vietnam. Growing up within thirty kilometers of the demilitarized zone of the 18th Parallel, he describes hearing gunfire every day of his early life He immigrated to the United States as a political refugee.

Pipo has taken on many things in life in pursuit of his diverse interests. As a teenager in Vietnam, he competed as a national athlete in table tennis. He also spent some time living as a Buddhist monk in Northern India. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at Carleton College. He then moved to New …

Big Questions Travels The World For Answers To Human Need

DePaul Magazine

"Big Questions" is a 13-episode series of stories from around the world that highlights impoverished and stressed communities and those who have come to their aid. The series if based on the question, "What can on person do to change the world?" It was produced cooperatively by four colleges at DePaul--Business, Communication, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and Computing and Digital Media, by faculty and students and aired on local PBS stations.

Mixing It Up With Peter Mokran, Sound Engineer

DePaul Magazine

Peter Mokran (MUS '90) is one of the music industry's most sought-after sound mixers, engineers and producers because he understands what it takes to make a great record. He didn't realize there was a career in mixing, but he learned his craft at the DePaul School of Music sound recording technology program.

Teaching Mexico's Remarkable Writer, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

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Chronology Of Works By And About Elena Poniatowska

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Trenzando Interrogaciones Pedagógicas, Magdalena Maiz-Peña

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Reading Elena Poniatowska's Leonora In An Undergraduate Seminar, Aurora Camacho De Schmidt

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Description of an Honors literature seminar focused on a selection of texts by prominent Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, including critical strategies involved in preparation, work required by students, and Poniatowska’s creative strategies in depicting rebellious women and other socially marginalized figures. A special focus on the biographical novel Leonora (2011) illustrates the pedagogical possibilities of this novel, and students’ analytical responses to the reading.

Teaching Gaby Brimmer: A Disability Studies Approach, Beth Jörgensen

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Gaby Brimmer (1979), the collaborative “autobiography” of the Mexican disability rights activist, narrates her childhood and young adulthood through the voices of Brimmer herself; her mother, Sari Dlugacz Brimmer; her caregiver, Florencia Morales Sánchez; and Elena Poniatowska. This article presents ideas and resources for teaching Gaby Brimmer from a disability studies perspective, in courses on contemporary Spanish-American literature, women writers, genre theory, human rights and activism, or in a disability studies course.

Tracking Jesusa: Geographic Information Systems And Character Development In Hasta No Verte, Jesús Mío, Pamela H. Long, Kevin W. Long

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This study examines the uses of mapping software and web tools to produce multimedia annotations of a literary work—in this case Hasta no verte, Jesús mío by Elena Poniatowska—to the end of strengthening student engagement with the text, and cultural and literary contexts. The authors, a professor and a student at Auburn University-Montgomery, photographed scenes of specific sites and landmarks mentioned in the novel, mapped them on Google Maps, then linked the sites with historic photos of the periods indicated in the novel, in preparation for creating a unique website.

Constructing The Democratic Reader: The Functions Of Textual Hybridity In La Noche De Tlatelolco, Manuel Chinchilla

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A study of Elena Poniatowska’s La noche de Tlatelolco as a hybrid text that combines the genres of testimonio and chronicle to reconcile the relationship between history and literature. This article centers on how readership of La noche de Tlatelolco permits a democratic practice that confronts official discourse, particularly the PRI party’s narratives of legitimization, while also fostering an engagement with the original political impulse behind the student movement of 1968.

Exploring Disaster Experiences Through Elena Poniatowska's Nada, Nadie: Las Voces Del Temblor, Dawn Slack

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A study of Elena Poniatowska’s Nada, nadie: Las voces del temblor, based on the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, through recent critical theories on trauma and human experience in catastrophic events. This article explores the narrative context of personal and collective response to disasters as well as pedagogical approaches to disaster narration.

Querido Diego, Te Abraza Quiela Y Las Cartas De Angelina Beloff En El Archivo Museo Frida Kahlo, Nathanial Gardner

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In Elena Poniatowska’s novel, Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, readers detect a connection to the historical context of Paris during the early twentieth century and the relationship of Diego Rivera with Angelina Beloff. Since it is known that Poniatowska created this fictional account after having read Bertram Wolfe’s biography of Diego Rivera, this study focuses on the actual, physical letters in the archives, consulted by Wolfe, to reflect on evidence and recreation, to posit that different narratives emerge when each source is studied separately, and that our comprehension of biography and fiction can be altered after reviewing these historical documents. …

Las Crónicas Femeninas De Elena Poniatowska En La Construcción De Un Archivo Digital, María Claudia André

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Pedagogical description of an innovative project where college-level students build a website about the work of European and Mexican artists arriving to Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. The project is based on three texts of Elena Poniatowska: Tinísima, Leonora and Las siete cabritas. The main objective of the project was to have students conduct research using the new proposals and pedagogical practices used in the field of Digital Humanities.

Descripción pedagógica del transcurso de un proyecto innovativo donde los estudiantes de nivel universitario construyen una página web sobre la obra de artistas mexicanas y europeas llegadas …

Ser Chaparrita: Los Textos Testimoniales Como Desafío Al Mundo Académico Y Las Lecciones De Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Partnoy

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This essay combines a tribute to Alaíde Foppa with the examination of Elena Poniatowska’s contributions to a discourse of solidarity around the disappeared Guatemalen poet and other subjects and producers of testimonial texts.

En el marco de una investigación sobre los últimos días de Alaíde Foppa realizada en México con la colaboración de Poniatowska, se examina el aporte de esta última a la construcción de un discurso de la solidaridad como condición central del texto testimonial.

Pedagogía Crítica, Crónica Cultural Y Corporeidad Auto/Biográfica En "Nahui Olin: La Que Hizo Olas" De Elena Poniatowska, Magdalena Maiz-Peña

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By mapping epistemological, pedagogical, and feminist frameworks, this study pursues a reading of Elena Poniatowska’s cultural essay on Nahui Olin, to focus on auto/bio/graphical subjects, gender, ideology, and representation within diverse theoretical approaches and discursive explorations. This study is applied to an undergraduate, multidisciplinary seminar in Hispanic Studies and reading practices, dismantling canonical life-writing models of female representation.

Este estudio considera la crónica cultural de Elena Poniatowska sobre Nahui Olin a partir de marcos referenciales epistemológicos, pedagógicos y feministas concentrándose en los sujetos auto/bio/gráficos, género, ideología y representación desde diversas aproximaciones teóricas y exploraciones discursivas. Se sitúa en relación a …

Intersticios, Cruzamientos E Intersecciones: Desafíos Pedagógicos En La Noche De Tlatelolco De Elena Poniatowska, Luis H. Peña

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This article reviews the pedagogical practices and experiences of undergraduate students upon confronting the emblematic text of the 1960s, La noche de Tlatelolco (1971; Massacre in Mexico, 1975), by Elena Poniatowska. Students are guided to consider ethics, aesthetics and politics as conceptual vectors to help them problematize this historic event materialized into a literary text, through its borders, linguistic and ideological representational nature, to evaluate the intricacies of contextual knowledge.

Un estudio sobre las experiencias pedagógicas de estudiantes de nivel subgraduado al enfrentarse al texto emblemático de la década del 1960, La noche de Tlatelolco (1971) de Elena Poniatowska. El …

Elena Y El Gaviero, Rey Andújar

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A reading of the book Cartas de Álvaro Mutis a Elena Poniatowska in study of the Colombian writer's presence in Mexico, his incarceration and Elena Poniatowska's visits with him at the jail.

Una lectura de las Cartas de Álvaro Mutis a Elena Poniatowska, efectuando análisis de la presencia del escritor colombiano en México, su encarcelamiento y las visitas de Elena Poniatowska con él en la cárcel.

Jesusa En Islandia: La Traducción De Hasta No Verte, Jesús Mío, María Rán Guðjónsdóttir

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The Icelandic translation of Hasta no verte, Jesús mío was well received by critics and readers alike. On the occasion of its publication in 2012, Elena Poniatowska visited the country to the great joy of Icelandic literature enthusiasts. In this essay the translator, María Rán Guðjónsdóttir, examines the process of translating the novel, the challenge of transmitting a text and culture of a source language so different from the target language, in consideration of Ortega y Gasset’s concept of the translator’s "misery and splendor."

La traducción al islandés de Hasta no verte, Jesús mío fue bien recibida entre críticos y …

Ausencia-Presencia: Delineando Una Narrativa De Personajes Fugitivos De Elena Poniatowska, Liliana Pedroza

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A study of four texts by Elena Poniatowska assessing innovative uses of characters, enunciating absence and emotion.

Un estudio de cuatro textos de Elena Poniatowska que giran en torno a la ausencia en sus distintos estadios y formas de invocación de personajes.

Elena Poniatowska: Then, Now And Forever, Claire Brewster

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Elena Poniatowska’s extraordinary literary output and her delightful personality justly merit her position as Mexico’s most dearly loved and highly respected author. I consider myself truly fortunate to have had the luxury of intensively studying her writings during the process of my doctoral dissertation. In this essay, I recall my introduction to Poniatowska’s work, her impact on my postgraduate studies, and how I, as a historian, employ her testimonial literature in my classes and the teaching of undergraduate students in the United Kingdom.

Cracking Codes Of Resistance: The Adaptation Of Elena Poniatowska's Story "De Noche Vienes" To Film, Lea Ramsdell

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A comparison of one of Elena Poniatowska's longer stories, "De noche vienes," and its interpretation in film many years later, for subversive and other techniques.

Class Privilege And Social Class Awakening In Paseo De La Reforma, Linda Ledford-Miller

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In this reading of Elena Poniatowska’s Paseo de la Reforma, the plot goes beyond a love story and personal transformation of the protagonist to represent a metaphor in microcosm for Mexico City. Although a shorter work than her more highly recognized novels and testimonies, the tensions between social classes and the unearned privileges of the elite in this novel stand in contrast to the suffering of the masses.