Ellen Frye
Professor • Department of
Other Interests
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Languages (other than English)
Spanish ItalianDegrees
Specialization
Dr. Frye's first specialization is Spanish language, literature, and culture. Her sub-specialties are Renaissance and Baroque Spanish theatre, as well as language pedagogy and methodology. She is the Director of and teaches in the Undergraduate ESL Endorsement program, and also she teaches in the Undergraduate Bilingual Endorsement and K-12 World Languages programs. Dr. Frye also researches and specializes in literary and cultural studies of Antarctica!
Representative Publications
“Theatre of Antarctica, a Tragically Grave Affair.”;
, Theatralia: Revista de Poética del Teatro;
Volume
“The Ant-architecture of Religion and Spirituality in Antarctica.”;
"Antarcticness." Ed. Ilan Kelman. ; University College London Press;
2022
«La meta-imitación como precusora del microdrama: la fluidez del género y la inestabilidad de la identidad en Don Gil de las calzas verdes.»;
"Donde el tamaño sí importa… La minificción: una cuestión de géneros." Ed. Darío Hernández et al.; Universidad de la Laguna Press;
2021
“The Imaginative Text: Cervantes and a New Dramatic Theory.”;
, Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos;
Volume
“The Function of Portraits and Metatheater as Microdrama in the Comedia.”;
, Microtextualidades. Revista Internacional de microrrelato y minificción ;
2019
Representative Presentations
“Ice on Stage: Antarctica as Character, Theme, and Symbol in Dramatic Pieces”
“Penguin Priests and Glacial Gods: Religion and Spirituality in Antarctica”
«El Siglo de Oro de la “Leyenda Negra” en el teatro renacentista inglés»
“Monological Sequencing in Antarctic Theater: David Young’s Inexpressible Island”
«Los gatos en la perrera con Lope y Cervantes»
Notable Courses Taught
Spanish Program:
* Golden Age Theatre
* Cervantes and His Age
* The Romantic Theatre
* Seminar on the Actor-Spectator Relationship in Spanish Drama
Undergraduate ESL Endorsement Program:
* Social and Psychological Processes of Multiculturalism and Acculturation
* Integrating Language and Content in the English Language Classroom
* Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
Undergraduate Bilingual Endorsement Program:
* Cross-Linguistic Approach to Bilingual Development/Bilingualism
Education K-12 for World Languages:
* Methods of Teaching a Second Language in Elementary and Secondary Schools