{"id":362,"date":"2016-05-18T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurasandez.com\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2019-04-07T23:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:28:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/","title":{"rendered":"*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<p>I currently work at Villanova University. My research interests include history of concepts, Latin American culture, performance, emotions, and intellectual history. My current study of emotions borrows from my work and research in the field of theater. In addition to being a scholar, I am also a performer. I have trained in corporeal mime technique both in New York and Paris, and I hold an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. While in NYC, I collaborated with La Micro Theater.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NML-pic-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"NML pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am always creating, researching and volunteering. At the moment, I volunteer at El Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o, an organization that uses art to promote development within its community and the Latino Diaspora. I am also in El Taller&#8217;s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>My previous research includes topics such as: the relationship of the Argentinean comic strip <em>Mafalda<\/em> to social and avant-garde discourses; performance and voting rights in New York at the time of presidential elections (2008) (2012); representations of the rights of Latino illegal immigrants in New York; emotional dispositions in the novels of the Mexican revolution; the valence of mad love in the photo-text <em>Soul\u2019s Infarct<\/em> by Diamela Eltit and Paz Err\u00e1zuriz; nostalgia and <em>Variedades de Galiano<\/em> by Reina Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez and studies of contemporary Romanian dancer Manuel Pelmus and Nicaraguan digital-traditional artist Ricardo Miranda Zu\u00f1iga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently work at Villanova University. My research interests include history of concepts, Latin American culture, performance, emotions, and intellectual history. My current study of emotions borrows from my work and research in the field of theater. In addition to being a scholar, I am also a performer. I have trained in corporeal mime technique both in New York and Paris, and I hold an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. While in NYC, I collaborated with La Micro Theater. I am always creating, researching and volunteering. At the moment, I volunteer at El Taller Puertorrique\u00f1o, an organization that uses art to promote development within its community and the Latino Diaspora. I am also in El Taller&#8217;s Board of Directors. My previous research includes topics such as: the relationship of the Argentinean comic strip Mafalda to social and avant-garde discourses; performance and voting rights in New York at the time of presidential elections (2008) (2012); representations of the rights of Latino illegal immigrants in New York; emotional dispositions in the novels of the Mexican revolution; the valence of mad love in the photo-text Soul\u2019s Infarct by Diamela Eltit and Paz Err\u00e1zuriz; nostalgia and Variedades de Galiano by Reina Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez and studies of contemporary Romanian dancer Manuel Pelmus and Nicaraguan digital-traditional artist Ricardo Miranda Zu\u00f1iga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurasandez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}