PAULA D. COSTA-STRAILE

Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Grove City College,
M.A. and Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Year Joined RCNJ: 2003

Courses Offered:

• Foundations in Spanish I and II; Intermediate Spanish I and II; El arte de conversar (The Art of Conversation in Spanish); El arte de leer (The Art of Reading in Spanish); El arte de escribir y tecnicas de investigacion formal (the Art of Writing and Formal Research Techniques); Advanced Spanish Grammar (Now-Syntax and Substance: Spanish Grammar);  Comunicacion Avanzada (Advanced Communication in Spanish); Capstone Seminar for Spanish Studies Major; Readings in the Humanities; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Conquest of Caliban: MALS Program

Teaching Interest:

• Spanish Language; Inter-American Comparative Literature; Spanish American and Brazilian, in particular.  Second Language Acquisition and pedagogy.    

Research Interest:

• Spanish American and Brazilian Literatures; Inter-American Comparative Context, Literature by Women, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature and culture. 

Recent Publications:

• "Myth and Ritual in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea:  Cherrie Moraga's Xicana-Indigena Interpretation of the Medea."  Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth.  Anne Simon and Heike Bartel, Eds. (Forthcoming with Oxford's Legenda Publishing.)
• "Redeeming Acts: Religious Performance and Indigenismo in Cherrie Moraga's Feminist Revision of Chicano Activist Theater."  American@ Vol. III, Issue 1 The Anticapitalist Struggle of Native Peoples in America.  Fall 2005.
  http://www.uhu.es/hum676/revista/index.htm.
• "The Pillory/Pelourinho in Open Air Museums in the U.S. and Brazil:  A Site of Racism and Racial Reconciliation."  Erasing Public Memory:  Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas (Voices of the African Diaspora). Eds. Joe Young and Jana Braziel.  Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007