Escape Room about “Don Quixote”
“Dulcinea no parece: Don Quixote in Montesinos’s Cave” is a student project that explores Cervantes’s experimentation with the formal and thematic possibilities of Erasmian folly in the second part of Don Quixote through a gamified learning experience (a virtual escape room) to enhance student engagement and foster critical thinking.
Poster
Escape Room Don Quixote
Recreation of a 16th-century Gamified Treaty
This project is a bilingual interactive recreation of Alonso de Barros’s Filosofía cortesana (1588), a board game about surviving and advancing at court, prologued by Cervantes. Students from SPW3409 Studies in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature (Fall 2022) designed a digital version to ensure accessibility and created a modern adaptation showcasing “worldly wisdom” in the 21st century with texts from authors like Sor Juana, Santa Teresa, and Cervantes.
PDF version of Alonso de Barros’s Filosofía cortesana (high resolution, English):
Card Deck of Female Suffragists in America
An interactive project for the SPN3300 Composition in Spanish course (Spring 2024), where students created a digital card deck featuring notable female suffragists, integrating language learning with historical research.
Card Deck
Presentations
Michelle Artiga and Anna Salvaggio (with Dr. María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes). “Y tiro porque me toca: Cervantes, Geese, and OER in the Classroom.” 105th American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), University of Salamanca, Salamanca (Spain), June 26-29, 2023.
Lynne Hemmingway (with Dr. María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes). “Dulcinea no parece: Don Quixote in the Cave.” 2nd Florida Digital Humanities Consortium Conference, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. April 1, 2022.
Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes. “The Game is On: Don Quixote in the Cave.” 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (virtual), March 7-8, 2022.
Alexandra Zapata (with Dr. Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes) “Dulcinea no parece: Don Quixote in the Cave.” 29th CILH (Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica), San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 9-10, 2022.
Funding
Alexandra Zapata. “Dulcinea no parece: Don Quijote en la cueva.” Travel Grant, Office of Undergraduate Research, Spring 2022. Faculty mentor: Dr. María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes.
Michelle Artiga and Anna Salvaggio. “Y tiro porque me toca: Cervantes, Geese, and OER in the Classroom.” DHI Summer Development Grant. UNF Institute of Digital Humanities, University of North Florida, Summer 2023. Funding for undergraduate student travel to co-present in Salamanca, Spain. Faculty mentor: Dr. María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes.