[Comedias] Fwd: Fwd: Amy Williamsen. From Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns

Fri Apr 26 10:14:16 EDT 2019

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From: Burningham, Bruce <brburni at ilstu.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Comedias] Fwd: Amy Williamsen. From Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns
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Cc: Cheryl Johnson <johnsonc at denison.edu>, Burningham, Bruce <
brburni at ilstu.edu>

Dear AHCT colleagues,

If you haven’t already seen this, please see the email below from Alain
Saint-Saëns.

If any of you are interested in editing (or co-editing) one of the homage
volumes Alain mentions below, please contact me ASAP.  As you will see,
Alain wants to move very quickly on this.

Best,

Bruce

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From: Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns: alainfrenchguy at gmail.com

Dear Bruce,

Dear All,

I have known Amy since my arrival in the US in 1990. I shall never forget
the way she welcomed me at the Chamizal time after time. I published the
book she edited with Valerie Hegstrom, *Engendering the Early Modern Stage.
Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire.*

We kept in touch over the years, even after my departure to Latin America
and Paraguay in December, 2008, where I have been living since.

So, as Director of University Press of the South (www.unprsouth.com), I
would like to pay tribute with offering publishing a book of articles in
her honor. It would be:

- *Free publication (all cost covered by the press) of one or two volumes
up to 400 pages each. *

I assume many would participate, since she got numerous friends. I
suggest *articles
no longer than 20 pages each.* I would be happy as a specialist of Early
Modern Spain as a scholar to be one of the Editors. Maybe Valerie would be
interested to join withme for one volume. Two other scholars could be part
of the team of editors for a second volume. We would need help with
collecting articles coming from the USA or elsewhere.

*- Articles will be accepted in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and
Portuguese. *

*- Books will be sold at $29.95 the volume (therefore x2, if there are two
of them). They will be sold at $19.95 each volume for AHCT and SSPHS, AHA,
and MLA Members. Same price for students with ID, and seniors (over 65). *

- If my project idea is accepted, I would suggest *a deadline of Monday
after Thanksgiving 2019 to send articles.* That would give time to the
editors and University Press of the South's Managing Editor, Ms. Inge
Sterne, to prepare the volume (s) seriously, in time for the 2020 AHCT
meeting, where the book will be presented and launched.

*- I would like to ask Bruce Burningham to sound AHCT members if my project
idea is of interest to Comedias Members. If it is, please recontact me
rapidly. My personal email is: alainfrenchguy at gmail.com
<alainfrenchguy at gmail.com>; my wasap/phone number is: 595-982-379-370. *

Amy was a very good person and a great scholar. She will be missed. God
bless her soul.

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns

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Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 8:21 pm
Subject: [Comedias] Fwd: Amy Williamsen

From: *Burningham, Bruce* <brburni at ilstu.edu>

Dear members of AHCT,

As you may have already heard, our dear friend and colleague Amy Williamsen
passed away unexpectedly earlier this week.  I know that we are all stunned
and deeply saddened by this news.

Amy was a longtime member of our community and served for many years on the
AHCT Board of Directors.  Moreover, as you know, Amy’s father Vern
Williamsen was one of the founders of our organization, and thus Amy’s
connection to AHCT actually began well before her official membership as a
professional academic.  Indeed, if any one of us could truly be considered
“family,” it was Amy; she was AHCT royalty.

As a scholar, teacher, translator, mentor, and colleague, Amy’s
contributions to AHCT, to the wider field of *comedia* studies, and to the
Academy at large are immeasurable.  (And who can forget the sheer sparkle
and wit that she brought to the pre-show introductions that she often
performed with Ben Gunther and Kerry Wilks at the Chamizal festival?)

More importantly, Amy’s commitment to kindness, to caring, and to justice
made her the dear friend that we all loved and deeply respected.  Her
enthusiasm was infectious and her generosity of spirit inspired us all to
be better people.  I, for one, can say that it has been a profound honor to
share the planet with her.  She will be sorely missed.

Many of you have expressed a desire to honor Amy’s legacy.  In the coming
weeks and months, the officers and board members of AHCT will discuss ways
of doing justice to Amy’s profound impact on all of us, including
scheduling formal events in her honor at next year’s conference in El Paso,
Texas.

In the meantime, if any of you have any suggestions for ways to pay homage
to Amy, please do not hesitate to email me.

And for those of you who may wish to send expressions of sympathy (Amy’s
family has requested that we not send flowers), please send your
condolences to:

Tora Williamsen-Berry

724 Rickets Lane

Ardmore OK 73401

With a heavy heart,

Bruce Burningham, President

The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater

Bruce R. Burningham

Chair of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Professor of Hispanic Studies and Theatre

Editor of *Cervantes*: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America

President of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater

http://bruceburningham.com

******************************************

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

114 Stevenson Hall

Illinois State University

Campus Box 4300

Normal IL 61790-4300

(309) 438-3908

burningham at ilstu.edu

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