While I was at the MALCS Summer Institute I confided in another attendee that I was nervous about the process of creating course syllabi as I’d never done it before. She, an associate professor of Spanish and all around lovely person, enthused that creating a syllabus was fun, and then told me she sometimes writes…
Tag: Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Reading Today: The Calligraphy of the Witch
Actually I read this book yesterday. Was so into it I didn’t start the review until after it was completed. Like The Hummingbird’s Daughter, I’m reading it with the thought of including it in my Chicana Gothic syllabus. Calligraphy of the Witch by Chicana scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba is an amazing American novel. It…