MARLENE COLLINS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH

 B.A.; PhD (UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, JAMAICA)

	"Even when we are too weak to have any faith left, he remains faithful to us and will help us, for he cannot disown us who are part of himself, and he will always carry out his promises to us".                2 Timothy 2:13
EMAIL ADDRESS: marlene.collins@houghton.edu  OFFICE: CHAMBERLAIN CENTER 215 OFFICE HOURS: MWF 1:15-2:15 P.M. AND BY APPOINTMENT	TELEPHONE: (585) 567-9603 / EXT. 6030

COURSES:                                         Spanish Level 3 – Span 103 A                                     

Spanish Level 3 – Span 103 B

Civilization of Spain – Span 406A

Survey of Spanish Literature 1– Span 401A

Survey of Spanish Literature 2 – Span 402A

Spanish Conversations and Readings 2 – Span 302A

RESEARCH INTERESTS:              Golden-Age Peninsular Literature

Speech Act Theory and the Spanish comedia

Women writers of the Spanish Caribbean

20^th – century Spanish Literature

AFFILIATIONS:                              Modern Language Association MLA

                                                            Instituto Cervantes                                         

Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre AHCT

                                                            North American Christian Foreign Language Association NACFLA    

                        Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars ACWWS                                 

                        University of the West Indies Alumni Association UWIAA  

                        The Community of Science COS

Bible Society of the West Indies BSWI
 

PAPERS:                                                 

April 2004                                           Ninth International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

“Children of a Lesser God: A Reconfiguring of the Puerto Rican Identity in René Marqués’ Los soles truncos”.

 January 2004                                       Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
                                                            “Speech Act Theory and the comedia: A Semiological Approach to Characterization in Spanish Golden-Age
                                                              Drama”.

 April 2003                                           University of the West Indies Modern Languages Seminar                    

“Subversive Re-mythologizing in Fineza contra fineza – The Metamorphosis of Diana”.

April 2002                                           University of the West Indies Modern Languages Seminar
                                               “Speech Act Theory and the comedia de enredo: A Semiological Approach to Characterization
                                                 in Calderón’s Fineza contra fineza”.

May 2000                                            University of the West Indies; Research Day                   

“On Critical Editions”.

November 1999                                  University of the West Indies Modern Languages Seminar                                                                    
                                               “The Subversive Power of Calderón in his Use of Myth: Ni Amor se libra de Amor”.
 

PUBLICATION:                               

July 2005                                             “Subversive De-mythologizing in Calderón de la Barca’s Fineza contra fineza: The Metamorphosis of Diana”.
                                                            Hispanic Review summer 2005 issue, vol. 73.3 

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