Open doors lecture on women dramatists and directors in Latin America

Professor Margo Milleret from the Spanish and Portuguese Department and Associate Professor Susan Dever from the Media Arts Department will read from their new books in a lecture Thursday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. The title of their presentation is “Off Camera and Back Stage: Women Dramatists and Directors in Latin America”.

Milleret’s “Latin American Women On/In Stages” studies play written by women that critique the social conventions of marriage, mother-daughter relations, and aging. She has taught at UNM since 1996, developing courses in digital filmmaking, and working on projects in which students speak Spanish or Portuguese.

Dever’s “Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From Post Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexámerica” looks at representation and rebellion in times of national uncertainty in both movies and politics. She has created and taught numerous Media Arts courses regarding race, class, gender and sexuality in U.S. and foreign cinemas.

The reading and discussion event is free and open to the public.

Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627