Lisa Rabin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5434734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Rabin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabin |
| SIGNATURE | RABIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Screening ‘Good Neighbors’: The Educational Uses of Julien Bryan’s Latin American Shorts Along the US Circuits of 16mm, 1940-1947
From 1941-1945, the educational filmmaker and travel-film lecturer Julien Bryan (1899-1974) produced 23 documentary shorts on Latin American ‘Good Neighbors’ for Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which distributed them widely across US sites of formal and informal learning during World War II. Although cultural historians in the past twenty years have provided considerable insight into the production mandat…
Critical Pedagogy beyond the Classroom Walls: Community Service-learning and Spanish Heritage Language Education
This article describes a critical service-learning initiative in which college students of Spanish taught in an after-school Spanish class for young heritage language (HL) speakers at a local elementary school. We contextualize the program within broad curricular revisions made to the undergraduate Spanish program in recent years, explaining how critical pedagogy and our students’ experiences motivated the design of the program. After describing …
Community Service and Activism in Heritage Languages, New York City, 1915–1956
In this article I describe the work of Leonard Covello, a New York City language educator and high school principal of the early 20th century who argued for Italian and Spanish heritage language (HL) preservation in schools. Although Covello promoted standard language Italian and Spanish in the HL classroom, he also encouraged HL students to use their languages and language variations for community service and activism in their East Harlem neighb…
The Culmore Bilingual ESL and Popular Education Project: Coming to Consciousness on Labor, Literacy, and Community
Figures of Conversion and Subjectivity in Colonial Narrative
In several chronicles of the discovery and conquest of the New World, Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios, Bernal Diaz's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espafia, and el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's Comentarios, scenes of conversion from an Old World self to a New World one provide a context for under- standing these texts' challenge to conventional histories of conquest. John Freccero's theory on conversion in Dante proposes that a conversi…
Speaking to Silent Ladies: Images of Beauty and Politics in Poetic Portraits of Women from Petrarch to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
MLN - Volume 112, Number 2, March 1997 (Hispanic Issue)
Passional Culture: Emotion, Religion and Society in Southern Spain
Community Service and Activism in Heritage Languages, New York City, 1915–1956
In this article I describe the work of Leonard Covello, a New York City language educator and high school principal of the early 20th century who argued for Italian and Spanish heritage language (HL) preservation in schools. Although Covello promoted standard language Italian and Spanish in the HL classroom, he also encouraged HL students to use their languages and language variations for community service and activism in their East Harlem neighb…
Passional Culture: Emotion, Religion and Society in Southern Spain
Speaking to Silent Ladies: Images of Beauty and Politics in Poetic Portraits of Women from Petrarch to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
MLN - Volume 112, Number 2, March 1997 (Hispanic Issue)
Figures of Conversion and Subjectivity in Colonial Narrative
In several chronicles of the discovery and conquest of the New World, Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios, Bernal Diaz's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espafia, and el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's Comentarios, scenes of conversion from an Old World self to a New World one provide a context for under- standing these texts' challenge to conventional histories of conquest. John Freccero's theory on conversion in Dante proposes that a conversi…
Critical Pedagogy beyond the Classroom Walls: Community Service-learning and Spanish Heritage Language Education
This article describes a critical service-learning initiative in which college students of Spanish taught in an after-school Spanish class for young heritage language (HL) speakers at a local elementary school. We contextualize the program within broad curricular revisions made to the undergraduate Spanish program in recent years, explaining how critical pedagogy and our students’ experiences motivated the design of the program. After describing …
Community Service and Activism in Heritage Languages, New York City, 1915–1956
In this article I describe the work of Leonard Covello, a New York City language educator and high school principal of the early 20th century who argued for Italian and Spanish heritage language (HL) preservation in schools. Although Covello promoted standard language Italian and Spanish in the HL classroom, he also encouraged HL students to use their languages and language variations for community service and activism in their East Harlem neighb…
The Culmore Bilingual ESL and Popular Education Project: Coming to Consciousness on Labor, Literacy, and Community
Screening ‘Good Neighbors’: The Educational Uses of Julien Bryan’s Latin American Shorts Along the US Circuits of 16mm, 1940-1947
From 1941-1945, the educational filmmaker and travel-film lecturer Julien Bryan (1899-1974) produced 23 documentary shorts on Latin American ‘Good Neighbors’ for Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which distributed them widely across US sites of formal and informal learning during World War II. Although cultural historians in the past twenty years have provided considerable insight into the production mandat…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Heritage language (2 works)