Leora Baum
Areas of Study: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Office hours: Mondays, 11:30am-12:30pm Contact: Email Interests:
Golden Age theater, Theater in Latin America, Visual and spatial aspects of theater, Restaging and adaptation of theatrical works, Performance in the context of political violence and resistance, Digital Humanities
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College
Biography
Leora Isabel Baum holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Washington University in St. Louis. Her current research focuses on contemporary performance adaptations of Spanish Golden Age literature in the Americas, with intersecting interests in gender and sexuality, digital culture, postcolonial cultural production, and the processes of adaptation and memory transmission.