Theater linked to collective memory

The Tartan Online: "Paul Eiss, a history professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, didn’t know what to expect when a woman from a regional theater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula told him about some old papers that the recently deceased company copyist had kept lying around. “I went to his house thinking, ‘Why not?’ and found a room filled with scripts almost up to my knees,” Eiss said. “This 80-year-old man had saved every play he’d transcribed since he was a teenager.” Eiss plans to make the plays available in a digital archive, as part of a project that recently earned him the highly prestigious New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew Mellon Institute."