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Faculty: Lowell Fiet
Brief introduction:
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| Academic Degree: |
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1973)
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| Areas of Expertise: |
Modern Drama,
Performance Studies,
Caribbean Studies |
Contact Information |
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| Office location: |
English Department, Office #PED-10
Basement of Pedreira Building,
College of Humanities |
| Office hours: |
Consult with department secretaries |
| Phone: |
(787) 764-0000 ext. 3796
Messages: (787) 764-0000 ext. 2553
(at the English Department office) |
Email: |
lowfiet@prtc.net |
Brief biography |
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Lowell Fiet is a carpenter, son of a carpenter, and dog lover, especially Labradors. He is a professor, an organizer of events, seminars, symposia, and residences, sponsored with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Puerto Rico and his own pocket, activities to which he invariably invites dancers and dance critics, the only one who does this around here. Lowell is also a "landed immigrant" or recent resident of Isabel II in Vieques at the same time as he forms part of that subspecies of university folk who are dedicated to conquering the downtown area of Río Piedras. He is a playwright and theater director and the theater critic for the weekly newspaper Claridad, although he does not belong to the Circle of Theater Critics of Puerto Rico. He is furthermore the author of El teatro puertorriqueño reimaginado: notas críticas sobre la creación dramática y el performance (San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2004) and currently is writing a book on the poetics of "cultural performance" in the Caribbean. Finally, he is an archeologist, anthropologist, and cultivator, preserver, and practitioner of a patois variety of Spanish.
(A Spanish version of this biography appeared in: Actas del Simposio "Las Humanidades Hoy" , Facultad de Humanidades, Recinto de Río Piedras, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2000: 214.)
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