Performing Our Histories: Latinx Stories in Ohio

 

Facilitators: Dr. Elena Foulis & Paloma Pinillos Chavez

Session Type: Workshop

Topic: Identities and Intersectionality

Description

This presentation uses oral history as a tool for creating spaces of trust and communal sharing of knowledge through performances. This co-creative model of working with Latinx students in devised performances, promotes a sense of pride and belonging in predominantly white institutions and spaces.  

• Audience will learn about the value of co-creating a performance piece with Latinx students.
• Audience will identify steps to create similar work within a classroom setting or as part of a co-curricular activity

This session will be delivered in English & Spanish

 

Facilitators

Dr. Elena Foulis

Faculty, The Ohio State University
foulis.5@osu.edu 

Dr. Elena Foulis is a student-centered educator with over 15 years of experience in higher education. She holds B.A and M.A degrees in Spanish and Latin American Literature and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. Latina/o literature, Spanish for Heritage Learners and Oral History. Foulis is an engaged scholar and is committed to reaching non-academic and academic audiences through her writing, presentations, and public humanities projects. Her e-books, Latin@ Stories Across Ohio Links to an external site. and Mi idioma, mi comunidad: español para bilingüe Links to an external site., have given her students key resources for understanding our Latina/o community’s rich heritage, and the complexity and diversity, and sometimes, structural and systematic inequalities that this community faces. She is also host and producer for the Latin@ Stories Links to an external site. podcast. Dr. Foulis also serves as State Commissioner for the Ohio Latina/o Affairs Commission.

 

Paloma Pinillos Chávez is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She specializes in Phonetics and Phonology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Healthcare. Her current research combines Hispanic linguistics with migration and Latino studies to understand the impact of non-native accents in healthcare communications within Columbus, Ohio.  

She has offered workshops for K-12 educators on Spanish pronunciation at the Center for Latin American Studies and has been an instructor for The Community Interpreter® International: Interpreting Training for Healthcare, Education and Social Services offered by the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.  

Other academic interests include heritage language education, performance pedagogy, and technology-enhanced learning in the second-language classroom.