Cartonera Workshop @ Harvard

The Paper Picker Press isn’t all about after-school! Today we hosted an open workshop spreading the pedagogy of the program to interested members of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty and Graduate Students at Harvard University. In the three-hour workshop, we developed techniques of Literary Criticism, Interpretation, and Meta-Cognition through the media of re-writing, visual and performing arts. Theory (as it inevitably does) followed from play, building on presentations in Romance Studies 200, with Prof. Campbell assisted by Adriana Gutierrez and Doris Sommer. The message: Sophisticated lessons in criticism can be facilitated through a variety of arts and play. We put that theory to the test using Borges’ wonderfully idiomatic text, “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths.” Luckily, we made it out of Borge's magical textual maze alive with a few "novel" lessons under our overstuffed belts.

Thank you to Kathy Coviello for all her help in organizing this event.