Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511
Office: 202C Dartmouth Hall
2009 Spring office hours: On LSA Puebla
Telephone: (603) 646-2863
Fax: (603) 646-3695
e-mail: Francine.M.A'Ness@dartmouth.edu
Ph.D. - University of California - Berkeley
Spanish and Latin American Theatre
Theatre History
Human Rights and Performance
Mexican Film
Performance Studies
Critical Pedagogy
Theatre Direction
SPAN 75 — Negotiating Performance in Latin America
SPAN 21 — A Cultural History of Argentina
SPAN 37 — The Gendered Iconography of Mexican Film
LATS 48 — Latinos on Stage: From the Barrios to Broadway
WGST 10 — Sex, Gender and Society
“The Challenges of Translation, The Deception of Reception: The Case of Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman by Sabina Berman.” Symposium (Forthcoming March 2008).
“Sabina Berman.” Latin American Dramatists. Ed. Adam Versenyi. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomas Gale, 2005, 44 - 59.
“Resisting Amnesia: Yuyachkani, Performance, and the Postwar Reconstruction of Peru. Theatre Journal 56 (2004) 395 – 414.
“Orozco MEXotica: La Pocha Nostra at Dartmouth College.” Latino Intersections 2:1 (2004). http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgibin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/2/article/274
“Authenticity and Authorship in the Computer-Mediated Acquisition of L2 Literacy.” Language Learning and Technology 4:2 (2000) 78 - 104. http://llt.msu.edu/vol4num2/kramsch/default.html
“A Lesson in Synthesis: Nation-Building and Images of a New Cuba in Fresa y Chocolate.” Lucero : A Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies 7: 1996.
July 2007 (Director) Stroke by Ping Woon Chin.
Dartmouth College, Warner Bentley Theatre.
July 2005 (Director) Coser y cantar by Dolores Prida.
Dartmouth College, Warner Bentley Theatre.
May 2004 (Co-Director) Impresiones ajenas (Collective creation)
Dartmouth College, 105 Dartmouth Hall.
May 2003 (Director) San Juan de Luz by Carlos Arniches.
Dartmouth College, Collis Common Ground.
May 2002 (Director) En el nombre de Dios by Sabina Berman.
Dartmouth College, Rollins Chapel.
I am writing a book about how Mexico gets imagined, translated and received on the international stage. The tentative title is The Diverted Gaze: Performing “Mexico” in the US and Canada. The focus is on the performing arts: theatre, dance, cabaret and multimedia performance.
