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Berta Jottar

Assistant Professor of Theatre and Latina/o Studies, Performance Studies Program Coordinator

Ph.D. (2005) Department of Performance Studies, Tisch, New York University
M.A. (1996) Department of Performance Studies, Tisch, New York University
B.A. (1993) Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

Email: Berta.P.Jottar@williams.edu
Phone: 413-597-4366
Office: '62 Center for Theatre & Dance #190
Office Hours for Fall 2008: TBA

Courses:

LATS 105/INTR 105: Latina/o Identities: Constructions, Contestations & Expressions
LATS 331/AMST/THEA/WGST 331: Sound and Movement in the Afro-Latino Diaspora
LATS/AMST/THEA 335; WGST 337: Contemporary Latina/o Theater & Performance
THEA/AMST 330: The Aesthetics of Resistance: Contemporary Latin American Theatre &Performance
THEA 334/ARTS 284: Dance for the Camera
LATS 455/ THEA 404: Performance and the Law
LATS/THEA 230; WGST 231: Approaching Performance Studies

Research:
U.S. Latina/o and Latin American Theater & Performance
Music and Dance in the Afro-Latin Diaspora
Border Art, migration and transnational identities
New Technology and Video Production
Post-Colonial Theory, Gender, Race and Sexuality

Selected Publications

Articles and Book Chapters:

Berta Jottar and Roman Díaz, "Rumba," Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Peter J. García, and Arturo J. Aldama, eds. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2004)

Interview, "On Border Performativity,"Remote Sensing, Laboratories of Art and Science, Baumann, Gowhler, and Loreck, eds. (Vice Versa Verlag, 2002)

Biemann & Jottar, "Performing Borders: Gender and Technology in Diasporic Culture,"Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, Floyd, Kelkar, Klein-Franke, Kramarae, and Limpangog, eds. (International Women's University, 2000)

Movimientos discursivos del cuerpo: Reflexiones sobre performance y Light Up the Border, Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, ed. (Cádiz, Spain, 2000)

"Diary" in Speakin' With The Mouth Full, Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin, Duke University Press, 1998: 338-424

"Work en Progress: Intervenciones Across d'Line," Video Networks Vol. 16, No. 4 (1992): 21-28