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- "The Latino Romeo and Juliet: Baz Luhrmann, Robert
Wise, and Cantinflas." BRICHA, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
(April 2001)
- "False Lives: The Shakespeare Films of Orson Welles."
Medieval-Renaissance Conference, The University of Virginia's College at
Wise, Wise, VA. (September 2001)
- "Hamlet and the Self-Reflective Eye: Showing the
Inner Hamlet in Film Versions of the Play." Popular Culture Conference,
Atlantic Beach, FL. (October 2001)
- "Sam Peckinpah and the South of the Border Western."
Congress of the Americas Conference, Puebla, Mexico. (October 2001)
- "Images of Mexico in American Culture." Presentation
to the College, Colby-Sawyer College, NH. (November 2001)
- Interview with Mr. Edward James Olmos for WUNCP
(November 2001)
- "Macbeth." for The Orson Welles Encyclopedia
(2002)
- "Othello." for The Orson Welles Encyclopedia
(2002)
- "Chimes at Midnight." for The Orson Welles
Encyclopedia (2002)
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2000-2001 |
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Richard Vela was a Reader at
the Folger Shakespeare Library, researching filmed versions of
Shakespeare's plays. He traveled in England, visited Shakespeare’s
birthplace and the New Globe Theater in London, and spent a week in Paris.
He was also named to the editorial boards of Literature/Film Quarterly
and Postscript: the Journal of the Philological association of the
Carolinas.
He presented seven conference papers: "The Idea of
Boundaries in the Work of Alberto Ríos." BRICHA. Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC; "Shakespeare’s ‘Rude Mechanicals’: Interpreting the
Role of Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream." Medieval-Renaissance
Conference, University of Virginia’s College at Wise, VA; "Going Indian":
the Role of the Go-Between In Hollywood Westerns." Western Literature
Association, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; "Shakespeare and The Uses
of Violence in Henry V." Literature/Film Conference. Ocean City,
MD; "Crossing the Border: Mexico as Emotional Boundary in American Films."
Film and Literature Conference. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL;
"The Blue Angel Figure in Recent Academic Novels." Philological
Association of the Carolinas, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC;
"Romeos and Juliets: Ten Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Play." Southwest
Popular Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. He chaired one of the
Shakespeare sessions at the Literature/Film conference and a session on
modern British literature at the BRICHA conference.
His article on New Formalist Mark Jarman appears in
Pembroke Magazine and articles on Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado
About Nothing, Cymbeline, and As You Like It are in
The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film.
He also gave the commencement address for the Winter
2000 graduation at UNCP.
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| 1999-2000 |
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Richard Vela won the
Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence and was promoted to
Professor at UNC-Pembroke, where he directs the composition program and is a
contributing editor for Pembroke Magazine. He presented
"Bilingual Humor in the Works of Julia Alvarez" at the Blue Ridge
International Conference of the Humanities and the Arts at Appalachian State
University, NC; "The Representation of Public and Private Space in
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" at the Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture Conference; "Into the Past: The Separation of Experience and
Understanding in Film Noir" at the Film and Literature Conference at Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL, "The Party at the Capulet's in Eight
Filmed Versions of Romeo and Juliet," at the Southwest/Texas Popular
culture Conference, and "Shakespeare Comic Endings" at the Philological
Association of the Carolinas Conference at Winthrop University, SC.
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1998-1999 |
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Richard Vela won the UNC-Pembroke
Outstanding Teacher Award and, in May 1998, had a grant to study filmed
versions of Shakespeare's plays in the Library of Congress. Conference
papers included: "'Things Which Cannot in Their Huge and Proper Life
Be Here Presented': The Relationship Between Language and Action in
Henry V" at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference in Wise, VA; "Breaking
the Skin: Construction and Destruction in Dystopian Films" for the
Film and Literature Conference at Florida State University in Tallahassee
FL; and "The Subject of the Poem: Religion, the Everyday World, and
the New Formalism in the Poetry of Mark Jarman" at the PAC Conference in
Wilmington, NC. His paper "Daughter of Invention: The Poetry of
Julia Alvarez" was published in Postscript.
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1997-1998 |
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Richard Vela presented
"Shakespeare's Comic Codas" at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference at
Clinch-Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA; "The
Translator Device in Films About Native Americans" at the Conference on Film
and Literature at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and "Daughters
of Invention: The Poetry of Julia Alvarez" at the Philological
Association of the Carolinas Conference in Spartanburg, SC. He also
co-authored "Happiness Through Insanity: The Function of
Outrageousness in Screwball Comedy," for Film and Philosophy.
His poem, "Custody Battles," appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of Puerto
Del Sol.
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Richard Vela attended
the Sewanee Writers' Conference at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN,
where he studied with Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Donald Justice and Mark
Jarman, Vanderbilt Professor and winner of several awards for his poetry.
He presented "Hamlet’s ‘Have You Eyes?’: Visual Signals and the
Problem of Proof in Hamlet." for the Medieval-Renaissance Conference.
Clinch Valley College of Virginia. Wise, Virginia. He published four
poems, "Being There," "Medication," "Winding Up," and "Working for My
Father," in the Chicano Issue of Riversedge (University of Texas-Pan
American).
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