By Sara de Blas Hernández Since starting my Ph.D. journey at UC Davis, I have collaborated with Prof. Daniela Gutiérrez-Flores to enhance medieval and early modern Spanish literature classes using multisensory pedagogical approaches. The goal is to help students connect with the literary production of the time, one that often feels culturally distant, through tangible … Continue reading Chocolate, Poems, and Virtual Kitchens: Reconstructing the Early Modern Experience →| The Recipes Project
2. The smooth and clacking TOUCH of rummaging through the plastic trinkets in the dollar drawers at dAN's Parents' House on City Island, a vintage toy store| City Lore
It's a Thursday night in Greenpoint, and strange perfumes and washes of colored light drift down the industrial staircase of Loft Story, an event space.| City Lore
I had so much fun being a guest lecturer/visiting artist in Cara Hagan's graduate theater class at the New School last month. I brought my boxes of smells and told them sometimes more, sometimes less about what they were and how I used them in my scent performances, such as Becoming Blind (as a Bat). I also gave them prompts…| M. Leona Godin