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Marilén Loyola
Yoandy Cabrera


Synopsis:

An analysis of the myths and principles of the classical tradition and their interconnection with repressed cultural production in Cuba.

Bio:

Yoandy Cabrera

Yoandy Cabrera did her doctorate at Texas A&M University with a thesis on the relationship between classical myth and human impulses. She is currently a professor of Spanish and the Classics at Rockford University. She has also taught at the University of Havana and Texas A&M University. Cabrera has published academic articles about classical reception and Cuban poetry and theater. Her most recent book is Ballet clásico y tradición grecolatina en Cuba (Aduana Vieja, 2019). She is the primary editor of Deinós, her department´s academic journal. In 2021 she received a grant from the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard, where she is currently researching for a year as an associate professor.

Marilén Loyola

Marilén Loyola studied Anthropology and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also did her doctorate. She is professor of Spanish and department chair of Languages, Philosophy, Religion and Cultures at Rockford University. She specializes in contemporary Spanish theater, working with memory and migratory studies. One of her most recent publications is the study “Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-first Century Spanish Theatre,” in the book Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation, published in 2020 by the University of Toronto Press. Her current research project explores the relationship between vigilance and contagion in Spanish film, television and literature.

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Classical Myth and Repression in Cuba

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