Leticia Robles-Moreno received her PhD from New York University’s Department of Performance Studies. Robles-Moreno is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Muhlenberg College. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Humanities with emphasis in Linguistics and Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She also holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has taught Spanish, Latin American culture, and writing classes in several college levels. In addition to her academic background, Leticia studied theater arts in the Club de Teatro de Lima and has participated in various workshops on improvisational theater, storytelling, and Theater of the Oppressed techniques. She has published articles in Latin American Theatre Review and Contemporary Theatre Review. Her doctoral research was focused on the role of theater groups of creación colectiva in recent Latin American socio-political contexts—particularly in Peru (Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani), Colombia (Teatro La Candelaria), and Ecuador (Teatro Malayerba)—exploring their networked practices as strategies of survival, from a combined Performance Studies and Affect Studies perspective. She is always lost in translation.
“Please, Don’t Discover Me!” On The Year of the White Bear
In the early ’90s, Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco and Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña joined forces to examine the unbalanced relations between the regions that make up the Americas and the complexities of what it means for those who who reside between cultures and languages. The result: the exhibition The Year of the White Bear and performance Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, both presented at the Walker in 1992.