{"id":725,"date":"2024-04-10T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/presidential-search\/search-committee\/priscilla-melendez\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:11:53","slug":"priscilla-melendez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/presidential-search\/search-committee\/priscilla-melendez\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Melendez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2024\/04\/Priscilla-Melendez-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2024\/04\/Priscilla-Melendez-600-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2024\/04\/Priscilla-Melendez-600-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/2024\/04\/Priscilla-Melendez-600.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Priscilla Mel\u00e9ndez earned her BA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras and received her Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin American Literature from Cornell University.\u00a0 As Professor of Hispanic literature, she is a specialist in Spanish American theatre and narrative of the 20th and 21st centuries.\u00a0 Her research has centered mainly on Spanish American theater, in particular Mexico, Argentina, and the Caribbean, and has also published in the field of Latin American narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Mel\u00e9ndez considers that her research agenda has always supported and energized her teaching.\u00a0 She teaches from introductory courses on literature and culture to upper level and graduate courses that reflect her own research interests in political and historical issues in the context of literary analysis: \u201cHispanic Caribbean Prose,\u201d \u201cGender Issues in Contemporary Spanish American Narrative,\u201d \u201cFrom Page to Stage: Performing Spanish American Theatre,\u201d \u201cJorge Luis Borges\u2019 Footsteps: Short Narrative of the Southern Cone,\u201d and \u201cRevolution, Culture, and Literature in Latin America.\u201d\u00a0 Mel\u00e9ndez combines in her teaching textual analysis, the examination of the historical context, the relevance of the texts to the present, and the transcendental role of literature and artistic creation throughout human history.\u00a0 The goal is that by the end of the semester (if not before) students can recognize that artistic creation, even in the most technological and scientific oriented world, is part of what makes us human.\u00a0 As a way of expanding the classroom experience in courses with a theatre component, Mel\u00e9ndez asks students to attend theatre performances at the university or in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priscilla Mel\u00e9ndez earned her BA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras and received her Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin American Literature from Cornell University.\u00a0 As Professor of Hispanic literature, she is a specialist in Spanish American theatre and narrative of the 20th and 21st centuries.\u00a0 Her research has centered mainly on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-725","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - 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