ELIZABETH M. CRUZ PETERSEN, Ph.D.

19243 Cloister Lake Lane                                                                                          (561) 542-1816

Boca Raton, FL 33498                                                                                         epeters1@fau.edu

lpquill@yahoo.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), May 2013

Boca Raton, FL Summa cum laude

Area of Specialization: Seventeenth-century Spanish Peninsular Theater, and Performance Studies

Dissertation: “Building a Character: A Somaesthetic Approach to Comedias and Women of the Stage”

Drawing from early modern plays, historical documents, and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study illustrates how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role on stage.

MA  Spanish Peninsular and Latin American Literature, FAU, May 2008 Summa cum laude

Thesis: “La transformación de la bruja en las obras de María de Zayas”

This thesis examines the role of the witch in the works of seventeenth-century Spanish writer María de Zayas to demonstrate how the Baroque author frees the sorceress from the subjugating language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time.

BA      Spanish, FAU, May 2006 Summa cum laude

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Adjunct Faculty (2011-present): Responsible for planning, teaching and evaluating classes

Research and Bibliographic Methods.

Introduction to World Literature

Beginners and Intermediate Spanish Hybrid

Intensive Beginners Spanish Hybrid

Ph.D. Teaching Assistant (2008-2011):

Intermediate Spanish Hybrid

“Taller de teatro y performance,” Oral Expression, Advanced Spanish

MA Teaching Assistant (2006-2008):

      Beginners and Intermediate Spanish. Hybrid courses SPN 1120, 1121, 2220.

 

RESEARCH

Dissertation Research, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain, July 2010

Masters’ Thesis Research, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, and Archivos General de Indias, Seville, Spain, June-July 2007

Seminar: “Don Quijote y la teoría de la novela,” University of Miami, Florida, Spring 2010

 

Certificates

“eCertification for On-line Teaching,” FAU, 2015

 

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mind, Body, and Culture at FAU 2015-2016

Provost’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship Award 2010-2011

Sigma Delta Pi Graduate Research Grant 2010

Delores A. Auzenne Ph.D. Fellowship Award 2008 and 2009

Graduate Diversity Fellowship 2008

Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship 2007

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Assistant Editor, Journal of Somaesthetics: Somaesthetics and Food, vol. 2, no. 1 & 2, 2016

FAU Arts and Letters Strategic Planning Committee 2012-2013

Senior Editor FACS Journal 2011-2012

PhD Teaching Assistantship 2008-2011

Ford Foundation Diversity Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention 2011

Ford Foundation Diversity Ph.D. Fellowship, Honorable Mention 2009

MA Teaching Assistantship 2006-2008

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Women’s Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater. Routledge, 2017. Forthcoming.

Book Chapter

A Mindful Audience: Embodied Spectatorship in Early Modern Madrid.Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Eds. Julien Simon and Isabel Jaén Portillo. Oxford UP, 2016.

Journal Articles:

El arte nuevo de traducir Lo fingido verdadero. Comedia Performance 8.1 (2011): 113-50.

Designed For An Experience: The Natural Architecture of Corrales.Comedia Performance 7.1 (2010): 168-97.

Theater Reviews:

 El esclavo del Demonio. Almagro, Spain.” Comedia Performance 8.1 (2011): 261-65.

 El caballero de Olmedo. Washington, D.C.” Comedia Performance 8.1 (2011): 266-71.

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

“Countess María de Guevara: Advocate and Activist.” RSA, Boston, April 2016.

 Building a Character for the Early Modern Spanish Stage.” MLA, Austin, Texas, January 2016.

“Embodying the Characters in Tirso de Molina’s El amor medico and Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio, y mujer. 113th Annual Conference, Portland, November 2015.

“Two Real-life Models of the Mujer varonil: Jusepa Vaca and Jerónima Burgos.” MLA, Vancouver, January 2015.

 “Actors Challenging Negative Social Constructs in 17th-Century Spain.” Somaesthetics Symposium, Florida, January 2015.

 “Educated Women of the Theater in Roles of Authority and Influence.” Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) in New Orleans, October 2014.

 Embodied Aesthetics in Early Modern Spanish Playhouses.” Spaces of Dialogue: I International Conference in Transatlantic Literature, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, April 2014.

The Education of a Woman Actor.” Renaissance Society of America (RSA) in New York City, March 2014.

 “An Actor’s Point of View: Reading Leonora as her own Character in Agravio: Courage, Betrayal and a Woman Scorned.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) Symposium at the Royal Bath Theatre in Bath, England, November 2013.

“Women with Character: 17thC Spanish Actresses.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference in Orlando, FL, August 2013.

How the Actor Prepares: A Somaesthetic Perspective of the 17th Century Spanish Actress.” AHCT Conference in El Paso, Texas, March 2013.

“Women of the Stage: Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern Spanish Theater.” 20th Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium in Miami, FL, February 2013.

“Women of the Stage at the Heart of the Early Modern Spanish Theatre.”Early Modern Women Conference in Milwaukee, WI, June 2012.

El amor médico and Valor, agravio y mujer: A Somaesthetics Perspective of the Female Protagonist.” Sixth South Florida Cervantes Symposium in Orlando, FL, April 2012.

The Diabolical and Divine Powers behind María de Zayas’s Witches.” RSA Conference in Washington DC, March 2012.

“Somaesthetics and Women of the Stage in 17th Century Spain.” MLA CONFERENCE in Seattle, January 2012.

 “A Renewed Sense of ‘Latinidad’ in the Works of Pedro Pietri and Yareli Arizmendi.” Melus & USACLALS Joint Conference in Boca Raton, FL, Spring 2011.

“A Call for a Female Utopia in Early Modern Spain.” Seventh Biennial Florida International University Conference Spring 2010.

“Deconstructing Zayas and Cervantes’ ‘dos amigos.’” The Third Annual Florida Cervantes Symposium, Spring 2009.

“La grandísima hechicera en ‘El desengaño amando y premio de la virtud’ de María de Zayas.” Tenth Bi-Annual GEMELA Conference, California State University, Fall 2008.

 

CONFERENCE DRAMATURGE:

Agravio: Courage, Betrayal and a Woman Scorned by Ana Caro, Adapt. by Ian Borden, 2012.

Love the Doctor by Tirso de Molina, Adapt. by Sarah Brew, 2011.

Lo fingido verdadero by Lope de Vega, “New Approaches to Destiny and Nation Formation in Lope’s Comedias,” 2009.

 

DIRECTOR:

El suplicio del placer by Sabina Berman, Department of Theatre and Dance, FAU, 2013.

El delantal blanco by Sergio Vodanovic, Department of Theatre and Dance, FAU, 2009.

La cueva de Salamanca by Miguel de Cervantes, The Third Annual Florida Cervantes Symposium, 2009.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE/LEADERSHIP

Faculty Mentor, Ph.D and M.A. GTAs, FAU, Summer and Fall 2016

Volunteer, 2016 Semiotics Conference, Florida

President, PhD Comparative Studies Student Association (CSSA)

Vice President/Treasurer, Sigma Delta Pi, Chapter Rho Omicron

Coordinator, Annual Latin American and Caribbean Graduate Student Conferences UM/FAU/FIU

Coordinator, Special Reading of St. Theresa by Bárbara Mujica

Coordinator/Reader, Andean Poetry Reading, Schmidt Center Gallery

Organizer and Curator, Art exhibit for Brazilian Artist Eric Perna, Brazilian Film Festival

Assistant to the Director of Caribbean and Latin American Studies Program

Founding Member and Treasurer, Revista Oral

 

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Interpreter, Cuba Outreach Mission Trip, United Methodist Church Council, Florida

Member, Minnesota Department of Corrections’ Sexual Assault Advisory Council

Treasurer, Board of Directors, Caponi Art Park, Minneapolis

Advisor/Member to the Committee for Community Programs, The Playwrights’ Center

Volunteer Entertainment Administrator, International Special Olympics Game, Minneapolis

 

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

English/Spanish: native fluency; Italian/French: reading for research

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

ATHE, AHCT, GEMELA, MLA, PAMLA, RSA, Dramatists Guild of America