Published on April 6, 2022 by Sean Flynt  
WLAC Conference
Samford faculty and students on the campus of conference host Lee University

Samford University world languages and cultures professors Sara Ortega-Higgs and Joanna Bradley and five of their Spanish language students participated in the IX Annual Conference on Latin-American and Iberian Studies at Lee University March 26. The trip was co-sponsored by Samford’s Department of World Languages and Customs and the University Fellows program.
The students presented original research they completed for the Spanish Literature course Ortega-Higgs taught last fall. Their presentation topics included:

“The Function of the ‘Town’s Fool’ in La casa de Bernarda Alba”–Erica Bradley

"Adela’s Suicide from a Psychological Perspective and its Symbolic Dimension”–Michayla Hebert

“Desesperación y desesperanza en La casa de Bernarda Alba”– Ashlee Priest

“Lorca and Liberation: Re-imagining Religion to Respond to Repression in La casa de Bernarda Alba”–Lacey Spear

“Las matemáticas y la poesía”– Sarah Westmoreland

Bradley participated in a discussion panel at the conference. Ortega-Higgs was the event’s keynote speaker, with a presentation on "Lily's Binder: Connecting Students with Purpose in the Foreign Language Classroom".

 
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