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modern plays, historical documents, and treatises on the precepts and practices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