Dr. Dana Ward
Professor of Spanish
Foreign Languages and Intl Studies
Dean Building
402 West O St
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: (479) 968-0485
E-mail: dward@atu.edu
Education
BA - Hendrix College
MA - University of Arkansas
PHD - University of Arkansas
Recently Taught Courses
ENGL 1023 - COMPOSITION II
SPAN 2013 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I
SPAN 3123 - SPANISH CIVILIZATION CULTURE
SPAN 3143 - STUDY ABROAD
SPAN 3163 - COMM INTERNSHIP EXPER
SPAN 4223 - SPANISH-AMERICAN LIT
SPAN 4993 - SP: LITERATURA HISPANOAMERICAN
SPAN 4993 - SP: SPANISH LITERATURE
Professional Activities
Her dissertation “Dramas of Defamiliarization and Distantiation: A Comparative Study of the Selected Works of Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, and Antonio Buero Vallejo” is an analysis of the Russian Formalist concept of defamiliarization and Bertolt Brecht’s theory of distantiation in selected works. Her ongoing research and scholarly presentations expand these concepts by analyzing the works of Spanish writers of the twentieth century who use various literary techniques to circumvent censorship.
Presentation
El engaño y los defectos morales de posguerra en los cuentos de Ana María Matute.Spanish
III: 20th and 21st Century Peninsular Literature. 78th Annual South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, Texas, October 7,
2021 (virtual presentation).
A Transformation into Terror in Ana Diosdado’s Drama “Harira.” War, Literature and the Arts Session. 74th Annual South Central Modern Language Association
Conference. Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 6, 2017.
A Portrait of Persecution of Diego Velázquez in Antonio Buero Vallejo’s “Las Meninas.” 73rd Annual South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Dallas, Texas, November 4, 2016.
The Transformative Traditions of Saint John’s Day in Alejandro Casona’s “La Dama de
Alba.” Folklore Session. 72nd Annual South Central Modern Language Association Conference.
Nashville, Tennessee, November 1, 2015.
El Libre Albedrío y Cambio Social en "El Encaje Roto" de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Spanish II: Peninsular Literature 1700 - 1898. 76th Annual South Central Modern
Language Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 24, 2019.
La mala fe transformada en “La muerta” de Carmen Laforet. Asociación de Literatura
Femenina Hispánica I. 79th Annual South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, October 13, 2022 (virtual presentation).
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