Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Dr. Camila Bari De Lopez, an associate professor of Spanish at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, recently presented a paper at an international conference held at the Universidad of Santiago de Chile.
"I presented a paper on Social Stratification and Legitimation of the Mestizo Ethnicity for Establishing Latin American Republics in Juan de la Rose: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement by Nataniel Aguirre,'" Lopez said.
"For the presentation of my paper, I decided to offer a brief introduction on the methodology of finding true social information in a fictional work," Lopez said. "My explanation about layers of meaning and the steps I followed in successive readings to finally uncover the pragmatics of the novel beyond the fictional plot received a rewarding interest from the audience of mostly sociologists and historians. The use of metonymy as a way to convey a hidden meaning was also commented and connected to historical issues by this very receptive public."
Lopez, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1997, earned her undergraduate degree from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and her Ph.D. from the University at Albany.
For more information, contact Lopez at (724) 946-7258 or e-mail baridec@westminster.edu.
