Margarita Vargas
PhD
Associate Professor Emerita
Scholarly Interests
Contemporary Spanish-American theatre; Mexican film; Feminisms
Education
- PhD, University of Kansas, 1985
- MA, University of Kansas, 1982
- BA, Yale University, 1979
Selected Publications
- “El teatro como espejo de la humanidad en Vuelve cuando hayas ganado la guerra de Bárbara Colio.” In Shakespeare y otros clásicos contemporáneos: una mirada shakespeariana al teatro mexicano actual. José Ramón Alcántara Mejía and Hugo Salcedo Larios, Eds. Universidad Iberoamericana: México, 2020. 249-262.
- “The Audience in a Reconfigured Theatrical Space.” Modern Language Studies. 47.2 (Winter 2018): 94-99.
- “The Possibility of Justice: Bárbara Colio’s Antigone in Usted está aquí.” Mediterranean Studies 21.1 (2013): 67-78.
- “Disrupting Motherhood/Restructuring the Nation: Diana Raznovich’s Casa matriz.” Ámbitos Feministas 1 (otoño 2011): 105-118.
- “Sexual and Political Disillusion in Y tu mamá también.” Coming of Age on Film: Stories of Transformation in World Cinema. Ed. Anne Hardcastle, Roberta Morosini, and Kendall B. Tarte. New Castle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Courses Taught
- SPA 535: Mexican Cinema. Feminism and Film
- SPA 509: Mexican Theatre and Postmodernism
- SPA 513: Spanish-American Theatre & Theories of Identity
- SPA 449: The Performance and Politics of Gender
- SPA 435: Mexican Cinema: A Cultural, Historical, and Technical View
- SPA 416: Spanish-American Theatre
- SPA 311: Survey of Spanish-American Literature
Affiliations
- Editorial Board, Latin American Theatre Review
- Modern Language Association
- Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades