Patricia W Oconnor

Professor
717F Old Chemistry Building
513-556-1950
pat.oconnor@uc.edu
http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/rll/facStaff/facDetails.cfm?username=oconnp

Professional Summary

Patricia O'Connor's research field is contemporary Spanish drama with a special emphasis on women's theater. As a critic and translator, she is responsible for bringing many plays to the attention of English-speaking readers through such works as Contemporary Spanish Theater: Seven New Plays (1980); Plays of Protest from the Franco Era (1981), Contemporary Spanish Plays: The Social Comedies (1983),and Plays of the New Democratic Spain (1992). Dramaturgas espanolas de hoy, her 1988 study of contemporary women playwrights in Spain, is the first book ever published in this area, and her article, "Women Dramatists in ContemporarySpain and the Male-Dominated Canon," appeared recently in Signs. Professor O'Connor won the Rieveschl Award for Creative and Scholarly Work in 1982, and she was named Distinguished Research Professor in 1990. The same year she was elected as corresponding member to the Spanish Royal Academy of Language. She has served on several committees for the Modern Language Association, and between 1990 and 1992 she was a legal advocate forthe Alice Paul House for Battered Women. During the fall of 1994, she collaborated with Professor Kirsten Nigro in organizing "A Stage of Their Own,"an international conference celebrating the contributions to the theater made by Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latina women. Professor O'Connor also holds anumber of honorific titles: she was elected Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures in 1997 and was named "Alumna of Achievement"by her alma mater, the University of Florida, in the same year.

Education

Ph. D., University of Florida, 1962.

Research Interests

Contemporary Spanish theater, contemporary Spanish narrative,women's (Spanish and US-Americans')sense of justice as reflected in dramatic texts by women.