My past interest in examining the interaction between literature and film (in contemporary Spanish literature), focused in my Fulbright research project on the interrelation of such philosophical categories as gaze and power and their influence on cinema and literature.

The project generated interest in the Screen Studies Program of the English Department at Oklahoma State University. The program works in the field of cinema and television theory. Their specialists provide me with an opportunity to improve my approaches to the theory and history of the cinema. I was offered to sit in on some seminars for graduate students such as "The Cinema of the International Avant-Garde" (Dr. Brian Price), "Convergence and Control in Modern Media" (Dr. Stacy Tacacs), and "Seminar in Film and Society: Reading Sound" (Dr. Hugh Manon).

Also I attended a course on American literature "Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville" (Dr. William Decker). I plan to audit the seminar "Ulysses in Context" (Dr. Ed. Walkievitz).

A "World Picture Conference" was held in October. It was dedicated to the problems of contemporary cinematographic theory development. I heard scholars from United States, Canada and Great Britain. During the conference there were presentations by the well-known film theorists in the field of Laconian psychoanalysis, Lee Edelman (Tufts University) and Joan Copjec (SUNY Buffalo).

Also the English Department invited Dr. Vincent Leitch, the editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism. His lecture was dedicated to the pragmatic aspects of contemporary literary criticism.

The Screen Studies Program also hosted the well-known English scholar and writer Kevin Jackson. His lecture, "I was a Teenage Surrealist" dealt with the author's participation in the surrealist movement and its transformation in the mid 20th century. Kevin Jackson is the head of the so-called "Pat Physical Society" that is considered to be a modern successor of the surrealist movement.

My plans include attending the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Chicago in December and participating in a Fulbright enrichment seminar in the spring. In February the English Department will hold an open lecture on my research. Also in the spring I will make several presentations and screenings dedicated to Ukrainian poetic cinema.

I proposed a presentation "Cinematographic Nostalgia in Julio Llamazarez novel The Scenes of Mute Cinema (in Spanish) for an international conference "Spanishness in Modern Literature and Film" to be held in spring at North Texas University.