Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

La Rueda del Sol

Going through old files I found this design I made for a class activity in a Hispanic cultures course:


The iconography represents a sun with the Mexica "Piedra del Sol," the Tiahuanaco "Puerta del Sol," the Iberian "sol y sombra" of the bullfight, and an aerial view of the southern Spanish "Costa del Sol." Looking at it again after almost fifteen years, I'm rather amazed by the effort I attempted to put into its detail, knowing full well that I'm no artist. I recall that the design was for an elaborate "missing information" activity in which the students needed to go find facts in the library. The design concept (if not its execution!), with its totemic animals and puzzle fit, was no doubt better than the activity.

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