Spanish Department
Director of the Foreign Language Assistants Program
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Contemporary Spanish Drama written by Women, 20th Century Drama and Novel, Directed Independent Language Instruction, Technology in the Language Classroom
Recipient of 2016 Mary Louise Marfuggi Faculty Award for Academic Advisement
贰尘补颈濒:听hfreear@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-2765
Office: Stein 458
PO Box: 35A
About Me
Born and raised in a tiny village outside of Canterbury, Kent, England, I spent my childhood reading, listening to records and playing in the woods, fields and hop gardens around my home. My father was a professor of Finance and Accounting and my mother was an ESL and History teacher at the local community college, so our house was always filled with students from all around the world. We also traveled extensively around the British Isles and France during the long academic summers when I was a young child, and I am sure that my love for other cultures was born in part from wandering around ancient castles and cathedrals, visiting remote villages, trying to communicate with locals and tasting new foods. Then in 1983, when I was a teenager, I had the ultimate cultural experience: we emigrated as a family to the United States because of my father鈥檚 work. Talk about a culture shock!
My undergraduate degree was a double major in Business Administration and Spanish, as I was convinced that I wanted to be an international businesswoman. However, my magical study abroad experience at the University of Granada, Spain changed my mind. I realized that I needed to keep learning more about Spanish language and literature. I went to graduate school at UConn where I received my M.A. and PhD. in Spanish Literature. My area of research is contemporary Spanish drama by women from the 1980鈥檚 to the present, a specialization that began, I think, when I asked my Spanish drama professor why we were not reading any plays by women in his class. His reply? 鈥淕reat question! Why don鈥檛 you do an independent study with me on this? We can work together to figure this out.鈥 听It turns out to have been a great question to ask because I ended up writing my dissertation on Spanish women dramatists (they do exist!). Aside from teaching seminars on Modern Spanish Drama and dramatist and poet Federico Garc铆a Lorca, I also teach all levels of language, literature and culture at 海角社区. My love for theater, both as text and as performance, permeates all of my classes and informs my teaching style.
Courses
- SPAN 101-102 Elementary Spanish 1 & 2
- SPAN 105-106 Directed Independent Elementary Spanish 1 & 2
- SPAN 108 - Directed Independent Intensive Elementary Spanish
- SPAN 201-202 Intermediate Spanish 1 & 2
- SPAN 215-216 Directed Independent Intermediate Spanish 1 & 2
- SPAN 303 - Aspects of Spanish Culture
- SPAN 305 鈥 Introduction to Textual Analysis
- SPAN 308 鈥 Readings in Spanish Literature
- SPAN 406 - Modern Spanish Drama
- SPAN 409 鈥 Federico Garc铆a Lorca
Research Interests
- Contemporary Spanish Theater by Women from the early 1980鈥檚 to the present
- Topics investigated include Female Solidarity, Historical Memory and the Re-writing of Myth and History
Books
Freear-Papio, Helen, and Candyce Crew Leonard, editors.听The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain. Identities, Anxieties, and Social Immediacies. El teatro de Espa帽a del siglo XXI. Identidades, ansiedades y urgencias sociales.听Vernon Press, 2022.
Articles
鈥叠补产别濒听entre el periodismo, la tragedia griega y el teatro documental. Con una breve entrevista a Juana Escabias.鈥 In听Juana Escabias, una dramaturga en la trinchera del teatro espa帽ol del siglo XXI.听Isabelle Reck, ed. Madrid, Ant铆gona (2022): 65-84.
"Diana Marta de Paco Serrano.听笔辞濒颈蹿辞苍铆补." Cerstin Bauer-Funke (ed.). Spanisches Theater des 20. und fr眉hen 21. Jahrhunderts in Einzeldarstellungen, Berlin, ESV (2021): 275-88.
鈥Apr茅s mois le d茅luge (Despu茅s de m铆 el diluvio)听de Llu茂sa Cunill茅: metateatro, trauma y compromiso.鈥 In听Crisis y creatividad. C. Bauer-Funke, ed. Hildesheim, Olms (2019): 217-227.
鈥淢itotop铆as en听颁补蝉补苍诲谤补听de Diana de Paco.鈥澨Escenarios de utop铆a, distop铆a, y miop铆a en el teatro contempor谩neo de Espa帽a del siglo XXI. D. Hitchcock y C. Leonard, eds, Editorial Puentes Dramat煤rgicos, LLC, New Harmony, Indiana, (2019): 71-82.
听鈥淕茅nero, raza y esperanza: el teatro biogr谩fico feminista de Itziar Pascual.鈥 In听Teatro (auto) biogr谩fico.听J. Romera Castillo, ed.听Madrid: Visor Libros (2019): 437-452.
听鈥淟as voces del otro en听叠补产别濒听de Juana Escabias鈥 In听Juana Escabias: Estudios sobre su teatro. Una investigaci贸n transoce谩nica. Ed. R. Fialdini, ed. Salamanca: Benilde (2018): 161-181.
听鈥淩esistance Retold: Historical and Mythical Narratives in Plays by Romero, Resino, Pascual and de Paco Serrano.鈥澨Revista feminismo/s听30 (2017): 47-68.
听鈥淢ito, g茅nero y emociones: Medea, Clitemnestra y Casandra en la obra dram谩tica de Diana M. de Paco Serrano.鈥澨齀n听Myth and Emotions. J. M. Losada and A. Lipscomb, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars P (2017): 107-116.
鈥淒iana M. de Paco Serrano鈥檚 Killers: The Challenges of Staging Violence Perpetrated by Women.鈥澨Teatro.听Revista de Estudios Culturales听/ A Journal of Cultural Studies听31 (2017): 5-20.听
鈥笔辞濒颈蹿辞苍铆补: cuatro mujeres en busca de un mito.鈥 Prologue to 笔辞濒颈蹿辞苍铆补 in Casandras. Diana M. de Paco Serrano. Madrid: Esperpento Ediciones Teatrales (2016): 31-37.
听鈥淟a m煤sica de la morgue: NN12 de Gracia Morales y Esp茅rame en el cielo, o mejor鈥 no de Diana M. de Paco Serrano.鈥 In Teatro y m煤sica en los inicios del siglo XXI. J. Romera Castillo, ed. Madrid: Visor Libros (2016): 274-285.**
鈥淔emale Authorship, Choruses and Fugues: Collaborative Retellings in Itziar Pascual鈥檚 Mujeres and Variaciones sobre Rosa Parks.鈥 Estreno 42.1 (2016): 50-63.
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