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Dr. Pamela Long, assistant professor of Spanish and French, has published the book Sor Juana/Música: How the Décima Musa Composed, Practiced and Imagined Music (New York: Peter Lang Ibérica series, 2009). A talented poet, playwright, scientist and mathematician, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz explored musical instruments and theory. In her lost treatise on music, which she titled El caracol, Sor Juana addressed the image of the spiral as a metaphor for musical harmony, an image she distilled in one of her romances. Sor Juana/Música investigates the musical aspects of Sor Juana’s literary achievements, exploring the dense metaphorical interplay of musical and literary images and placing her works within the musicological ambience of her time. With its interdisciplinary approach, Sor Juana/Música contributes not only to the understanding of Sor Juana’s literary works, but also to the degree that literature underpins the other arts as it illuminates the musicological times in which she lived.
Tereza Veverkova, a junior on AUM's women's tennis team from Prague, Czech Republic, majoring in Political Science, was recognized by the Association of the College English Teachers of Alabama at its annual conference in February at Huntingdon College. Veverkova's essay "Once Upon a Time at the Edge of a Limestone Quarry Amerika" was a runner-up for the Mary Evelyn McMillan Writing Award, created to recognize outstanding undergraduate writing. Veverkova is the first student whose native language is not English to be recognized by ACETA. She wrote the essay in fall 2008 in Associate Professor Nancy Anderson's Advanced Expository Writing course.
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March 12, 2009 |
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