Milton Loayza

Milton Loayza

119 West oneida Street •Oswego NY 13126 • [phone]

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Education

Ph.D., Theatre, May 2008

CUNY Graduate Center

Dissertation title: “The Plays of Ricardo Monti and the Production of Space.”

Dissertation Committee: Jean Graham-Jones (director), David Savran, Gloria Waldman.

M.A., Theatre, 2002

CUNY Brooklyn College

B.A., English, 1998

CUNY City College of New York Isaacs Scholar program.
Languages

Spanish—native speaker/writer

French—fluent speaker/reader, competent writer.
Teaching experience

Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego

Theatre

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  Theatre/Buenos Aires: a Global City, culture and performance, Spring 2011-2015.
  
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  Modern Spanish Drama, Spring 2011, Fall 2014
  
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  Survey of Spanish Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Spring 2014.
  
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    Latin American Theatre and Gender in the Twenty First Century, Fall 2013.
    
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  Cortazar’s Short Fiction, interdisciplinary course (Literature, History, Performance), Fall 2011.
  
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  19th Century Spanish Drama, Fall 2011.
  
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  Golden Age Spanish Drama, Spring 2010.
  
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  Honors Program: “In Search of Meaning: Latin American Metatheatre” Spring 2009.
  

Language and Literature

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  Elementary French, Spring 2014.
  
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  Advanced Spanish, Spring 2015
  
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  Spanish/ Special Topics: Buenos Aires, A Global City, Spring 2010 to 2015.
  
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  Indigenist Literature in Latin America, Summer program in Ecuador, 2012 and 2013.
  
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  Survey of Latin American Literature from Modernism to today, Summer program in Ecuador, 2012 to 2013.
  
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  Elementary Spanish, multiple sections: Spring, Fall, Winter, Summer, 2010-2015.
  
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  Continuing Elementary Spanish, multiple sections: Spring, Fall, Winter, Summer, 2008-2015.
  
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  Intermediate Spanish and Continuing Intermmediate Spanish 2009-2013.
  

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Syracuse University.

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  Latin American and Spanish Literature, Spring 2010.
  
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  Introduction to Spanish Language Literature, Fall 2009
  
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  Nobel Prize Literature in Spanish, Fall 2009.
  

Adjunct Lectuter, Oswego State University, SUNY.

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  Continuing Elementary Spanish, multiple sections Spring 2007 to Spring 2008.
  
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  Public Speaking and Critical Thinking (two sections), 2007-2008.
  

Adjunct Lecturer, College of Staten Island. CUNY.

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  Introduction to Theatre, two sections, 2005-2006.
  

Adjunct Lecturer, York College. CUNY.

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  Public Speaking and Critical Thinking, two sections, 2002-2003.
  

Adjunct Lecturer, City College, CUNY

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  Introduction to Theatre, Spring 2003.
  

Adjunct Lecturer, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.

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  Public Speaking, two sections, 2001-2002.
  

Research

Publications

Articles
“Grotesco criollo,”Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (REM), Ed. Stephen Ross. London: Routledge, 2015.

“Armando Discépolo,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (REM), Ed. Stephen Ross. London: Routledge, 2015.

“In Search of Planes of Immanence: Deleuzian Assemblage as a Mode of Thought in the Plays of Ricardo Monti,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, forthcoming.

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“David Viñas’s Theory of Grotesco and the Glocal Scene of Habitus Production,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 23.2 (2009): 111-30.—Special issue on global dramatic theories.

“Strobe-light Consciousness and Body Technology in Antonin Artaud’s Theatre.” Body, Space and Technology Journal 1.1 (2000). http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0101/miltonloayza.html

Book Reviews

“Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains, Literature, and the Arts in the River Plate, by Sarah M. Misemer, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2010. Simposium 65.3 (2011): 228-30.

“Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination, by Roger Betchel, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007”. Theatre Survey 51.1 (2010): 166-69.

Performance Review

“Harina and Guardavidas by Teatro Doble Ve; and Narciso by Manuela Infante, New York Latino Stage Fest 2008 (Performance review). Theatre Journal 61.1 (2009): 311-15.

Conference papers

“The Reciprocity of Distance in Amapola Prada’s Revolution,” Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Montreal, 2014.

“Response to Amapola Prada’s Revolution,” Theatre as Theory conference, Brooklyn, 2013.

“In Search of Planes of Immanence: Deleuzian assemblages and the Diagram in Ricardo Monti’s Plays.” Mid Atlantic Theatre Conference, St. Louis, 2013.

“Untaming the Viewer’s Space in El pasado es un animal grotesco, by Mariano Pensotti,” IFTR/FIRT Conference, Santiago de Chile, 2012.

“Doing and Undoing Masculinity in the Performance of Ella, by Susana Torres Molina, Symposium on Masculinity and Performance, NYC 2010.

“Props as Grotesco Performatives in Ricardo Halac’s Segundo Tiempo,” Theatre Symposium, Winston-Salem, 2008.

"Allegory and Strategies of Emergence in Two Plays by Ricardo Monti," ASTR conference, Phoenix/AR, 2007.

“Marathón’s Tectonics: Towards an Ethics of the Scenic Stage,” (paper and poster), FIRT conference, Helsinki, 2006.

“An Invitation to Theatrical Transformation: Visit by Ricardo Monti,” Transformations and Mutations: Romance Languages Conference for Graduate Students, Durham, Duke University, 2005.

“Grotesco Criollo: Historical Redemption in the Mirror of the Argentine Stage.” ATHE conference, Toronto, 2004.

“The Immaculate Conception of the Mestizo in Ricardo Monti’s Asuncion,” The Hemispheric Institute Seminar, New York, 2003.

“‘It Is Enough That We Have Been Conquered’: Colonial Utopia and Ceremonial Affliction in the Nahua Performances of The Last Judgment, 1531-1539.” ASTR conference, New York, 2000.

“Producing Liminal Time: Body Technology in Artaud’s Theatre.” Liminality and Performance Conference (Brunel University). London, 2000.

“Phenomenal Disruption: The Theatergoer in Garcia Lorca’s The Public.” Coordinated panel “Garcia Lorca’s Dramaturgy in Theory and Practice,” chaired by Marla Carlson. ATHE conference, Washington D.C, 2000.
Theatre projects (of Latin American plays)

Directing/acting

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  El Duende, Maria of Buenos Aires by Piazzola/Ferrer, Syracuse Opera, 2014.
  
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  Fran, ¿Estás Ahí? by Javier Daulte, Theatre Symposium, Lexington Va, 2015.
  

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  Don’t Blame Anyone, adapted from short stories by Cortazar, with video by Barry Steele, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse 2013, Sheldon Hall, Oswego 2014.
  
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  Nurse Cora, performance adaptation from Cortazar (Argentina) New Masculinities Festival, New York 2012.
  

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  Are You Prof. Friedman by Julio Recalde (Ecuador), Trans. Milton Loayza, ArtRage, world premiere, Syracuse 2011.
  
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  Doña Blanca, Asuncion by Ricardo Monti (Argentina), Red House Arts Center, U.S. premiere, Syracuse 2010.
  
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  Iriondo, Ella by Susana Torres Molina (Argentina), Red House Arts Center, U.S. premiere, Syracuse 2010.
  
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  Martin, La Culpa la Tuvo el Tranvia, by Cristina Merelli (Argentina), Lyric theatre, Latin American Theatre Today conference (LATT), Blacksburgh, Virginia. 2008.
  
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  Visit, by Ricardo Monti, New Perspectives Theatre, 2004.
  

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  Coripheus, Antigona Furiosa, by Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), Martin Segal Theater, New York 2000.
  
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  Lautaro, September 11, by Guillermo Reyes (Chile/US), New Perspectives Theatre Company, U.S. premiere, 1999.
  

Other artistic projects

Recording of tangos, including original musicalization of poem by Sor Juan Ines de la Cruz, 2015.

Areas of expertise

Twentieth Century Theatre, the avant-garde, post-dramatic theatre, Latin American/ Latino theatre, intermediality, gender, the grotesque, performance and globalization, performance and coloniality, theory (performance theory, left political theory, philosophy, ethics of performance, ecocriticism).

Honors and awards

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  MAGNET Humana President Dissertation Fellowship. CUNY Graduate Center, (2005-2006).
  
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  ICATS (International Center of Advanced Theatre Studies) half-scholarship, University of Helsinki, (2004).
  
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  MAGNET Humana President Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, (1998-2002).
  
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  Cohn and Lortell Travel and Theatergoing Award to Argentina, Theatre Studies Department, CUNY Graduate Center, (2000).
  

Professional experience

Study abroad course designer and faculty leader, 2010-2015.

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  Designed courses with travel component to Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile.
  
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  Designed Summer course and program of activities in Quito, Ecuador.
  
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  Acted as faculty leader during travel of students for study and activities in Ecuador and Argetina.
  

Founder, artistic director of Autopista del Sur Theatre Group, Syracuse 2010.

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  Produced, directed, and acted in two plays at Red House Theatre, 2010
  
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  Directed and translated play staged at ArtRage Gallery, 2011.
  
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  Performed at Festival at Judson Memorial Church, NYC 2012.
  

Assistant producer, Theatre Abroad program/Monti project, Martin Segal Center, 2004.

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  I conducted communication with playwright Ricardo Monti.
  
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  I assisted in establishing content and format of evening presenting the author to New York’s theatre community.
  
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  I chose Labyrinth Theatre Company to stage scene from one of Monti’s plays.
  
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  Directed scene with New Perspective Company.
  

Research assistant to Prof. Marvin Carlson, 2002.

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  Initiated liaison with Art History department towards digitizing slide collection
  
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  Worked on creating image database for the Theatre Studies department.
  

Research Assitant to Prof. David Savran, 2003.

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  Assisted in proof-reading of publisher’s copy of Masculinity Reader.
  
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  Managed mailings, and emailed responses in relation to ASTR conference taking place at the Graduate Center.
  

Contributions to Emergency Gazette for Theatre Matters (New York 2001-2003):

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  Translations, manifestos, short plays, reviews and essays.
  

Editor of The Green Room, a newsletter at the CUNY Graduate Center, for the Doctoral Theatre Students Association (1999-2001).

Service

Faculty adviser for Argentine Tango Club

Faculty adviser for Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honorary Society
Professional Affiliations

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  International Federation of theatre Research (IFRT/FIRT)
  
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  Latin American Theatre Today (LATT)
  
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  Hemispheric Institute of Latin American Performance and Politics.
  
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  Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).
  
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  American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
  

References
Prof. Jean Graham-Jones, (Dissertation Adviser)

Ph.D. Program in Theatre

The CUNY Graduate Center,

365 Fifth Avenue,

New York, NY 10016

Office: 212-782-8873

[e-mail]

Prof. David Savran, Theatre (Dissertation Committee)

Ph.D. Program in Theatre

The CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue,

New York, NY 10016

Office: 212-782-8874

[e-mail]