Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish and chair of the department of foreign languages, has received a 2005 Title VI Summer Research Fellowship from the Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The funding will support a week-long intensive research project at the UNC-CH library for her project, “Materials and Methodology: Developing and Updating Courses on Latin American Theater.”
Van Bodegraven will gather materials and prepare to teach two courses on Latin American theater at Elon University. One is a senior seminar in Spanish titled “Latin American Theater of Innovation and Social Protest,” which she will teach in the fall semester of 2005. The other is a survey course on Latin American Theater to be taught in English, which could be offered in the future as part of Elon’s Latin American Studies program. Van Bodegraven wrote her doctoral dissertation on Latin American theater.
Van Bodegraven has also been nominated for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. She was nominated for the honor by one of a former student, Kathleen Niple ’05. Who’s Who annually recognizes the nation’s best teachers at the high school and college level.