Daniel Zalacaín , Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures
(973) 761-9468
Email
Fahy Hall
Room 230
Daniel Zalacaín, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures
Dr. Zalacain, a professor of Spanish, is interested in Latin American Theatre.
Education
- PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- BA, Wake Forest University
Scholarship
- Tiranía y libertad en La audiencia de los confines, In Oralia Preble-Niemi (ed.), Cien años de magia: Ensayos críticos sobre la obra de Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala: Guatemala: FG editores, 227-238, January 2006
- Virgilio Piñera, teatro cubano de la crueldad, In Rita Molinero (ed.), Virgilio Piñera: La memoria del cuerpo, San Juan, PR: Plaza Mayor, 443- 450, January 2002
- El viaje a la otra orilla: Exilio y reencuentro, In Heidrun Adler and Adrian Herr (eds.), De las dos orillas: Teatro cubano, 187- 202, January 1999
- New Beats: Seven One-Act Hispanic American Plays, New Brunswick: SLUSA/ Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 1990
- Teatro absurdista hispanoamericano. Valencia-Chapel Hill: Albatros/Hispanófila, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985
Accomplishments
Articles Published
- "Fantasía y realidad en Cruzando el puente", OLLANTAY Theatre Magazine, 6: 10 (1998): 53-60.
- "La dialéctica del marginado en Sobre las mismas rocas", in Matías Montes Huidobro: Acercamientos a su obra literaria, Jorge M. Febles and Armando González-Pérez, eds. (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997), 105-114.
- "La criollización de las heroínas griegas en el teatro caribeño," South Eastern Latin Americanist (South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies) 40:3,4 (Winter/Spring 1997): 24-28.
- "Dimensiones de espacio, tiempo y personaje en Sobre las mismas rocas, de Matías Montes Huidobro." OLLANTAY Theatre Magazine, 3:2 (1996): 96-103.
- Entrevista a Franklin Domínguez." Latin American Theatre Review(University of Kansas), 29.1 (1995): 107-111.