Modern Language Assosiation (MLA) – Discussion Group on Sephardic Studies, Thursday, 8 January, 2015 – Vancouber

130th MLA Annual Convention
Vancouver, 8–11 January 2015

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 2015 Program > Session 38

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Sephardic Studies

Presiding: Bonnie S. Wasserman, Univ. of Arizona

1. «Todu lu qui terra yaman es tiempu: Using Ladino to Craft a Space for Nostalgia in Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu,» Brandon Rigby, Univ. of Oregon

2. «Searching for Identity: Judeo-Spanish in Myriam Moscona’s Tela de Sevoya,» Bryan Kirschen, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

3. «A Melville Scholar Finds Herself Writing Fiction in Judeo-Spanish,» Jane Mushabac, New York City Coll. of Tech., City Univ. of New York

4. «Orizontes: Reviving the Ladino Press in ‘Muestra Epoka,'» Bethany Beyer, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

For abstracts, visit commons.mla.org/groups/sephardic-studies/.