Marlene Collins-Blair
Department Chair, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Courses:

  • Spanish Level 3– SPAN 103

  • Civilization and Culture of Spain – SPAN 406

  • Survey of Spanish Literature – SPAN 401

  • Spanish Literature and Film: Twentieth-Century to Present – SPAN 402

  • Spanish Conversations and Readings – SPAN 302A

  • Civilization and Culture of Latin-America - SPAN 405

  • Advanced Spanish Grammar - SPAN 350

  • Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature -
    SPAN 423 / 424

  • Spanish Phonetics - SPAN 305

  • Aspects of Costa Rica: Language, Culture and People - SPAN 207 /346

Research Interests:

  • Golden-Age Peninsular Literature Speech Act Theory and the Spanish comedia

  • Women writers of the Spanish Caribbean

  • 20th – 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

  • ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

Publication:

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

 

Email:
marlene.collins
@houghton.edu

Office:
Chamberlain Center 211

Office hours:
M, W, F 1:15-2:15 P.M. and by appointment

Telephone:
585-567-9603 or ext. 6030

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 Ren� Marqu�s’ 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 Calder�n’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 Calder�n in his Use of Myth: Ni Amor se libra de Amor”.