CREATING AND EXPERIMENTING WITH THE EPISTOLARY FORM
TRANSPARENT WINDOWS CREATIVE WORKSHOP
An online creative workshop with the title 'Creating and Experimenting with the Epistolary Form' will take place on Friday May 12th, 2023, with the participation of Dr. Gorica Majstorovic (Stockton University, US). The online workshop will be held between 18:30-20:00 via the ZOOM platform.
The particular event is organized as part of the Stockton U-AUTh bilateral MOU agreement.
Language of the workshop: English.
**A certificate of attendance will be provided**
In order to ensure your online participation in the event, please fill in the form available here.
The story to be examined plus the ZOOM LINK to be used for the event will be sent to everyone registered. A certain number of ZOOM seats are available.
This event is organized by the Creative Workshop Series 'Transparent Windows' (School of English, AUTh).
Event Coordinator: Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou (trapatz@enl.auth.gr)
For any further inquiries, do send your emails to: trapatz@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou).
ΕVENT ABSTRACT
With emphasis placed on the story titled 'Chac Mool' by Carlos Fuentes, the seminar participants will be invited to think about the epistolary form and the effects it can generate. They will then be invited to experiment with the form in various ways in an attempt to communicate their concerns with regard to diverse socio-cultural events or crises.
BIO INFORMATION
Dr. Gorica Majstorovic is Professor of Spanish and World Literature at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ (USA). Her research concerns the intersection of Latin American Studies and American Studies, with particular emphasis on the interwar period. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Atlantic Studies, Transmodernity, Symposium, Latin American Research Review, and Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, as well as The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel and other volumes. She is the author of Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America (Lexington Books, 2020) and co-editor of Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America (Palgrave, 2021).
