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Read article: Celebrating newly promoted faculty
Celebrating newly promoted faculty
Congratulations to Prof. Eduardo Ledesma on his recent promotion to Full Professor and to Ann Abbott, who is now a Teaching Associate Professor following...
Read article: Prof. Mariselle Meléndez named Frances O’Donnell Endowed Faculty Scholar
Prof. Mariselle Meléndez named Frances O’Donnell Endowed Faculty Scholar
Professor Mariselle Mélendez has been named by  LAS Dean’s Office a Frances O’Donnell Endowed Faculty Scholar from 2025-2028. As the award letter states, it is “based upon recognition of her outstanding contribution to the...
Read article: Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Graduate student Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year for her dissertation project “Acquisition of Spanish Stress by English...
Read article: Prof. Silvina Montrul, recipient of a 2025-6 Fullbright Award
Prof. Silvina Montrul, recipient of a 2025-6 Fullbright Award
Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright award to conduct research in Brazil. Congratulations, Silvina! 
Read article: Prof. Salvatore Callesano, recipient of seed grant through BRIDGE strategic partnership initiative
Prof. Salvatore Callesano, recipient of seed grant through BRIDGE strategic partnership initiative
Professor Salvatore Callesano, along with co-Principal Investigators Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics) and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French and Italian), has received a seed grant for their project Computational Sociolinguistics and the...
Read article: Karen Pasetto Olevar & Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz, recipients of Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships
Karen Pasetto Olevar & Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz, recipients of Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships
Congratulations to graduate students Karen Pasetto Olevar and Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz who have been awarded Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships for...

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Urban Modernities in Spanish Literary Culture and Film

This course examines the centrality of urban space and the leisure culture and gendered spaces of city life in Spanish high and low brow literature and silent-era cinema.

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Spanish<>English Translation

In this class, we’ll apply current translation theories to the analysis and practice of translation between Spanish and English.

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Imaging Mexico

This course explores how visual culture has shaped Mexican national identity.

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Latin American Cinema: Screening the People

This course explores how Latin American cinema has represented the region’s people on film through a range of styles, modes, and genres for nearly a century.

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Storytelling in Latin America: An Introduction to the Latin American Short Story

This course focuses on the modern Latin American short story, highlighting the development of its literary and cultural traditions throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Queering the Borders: Gender, Sexuality, and Migration in Latin American and Latinx Culture

This course focuses on the analysis of gender, sexuality, migration, and borders in Latin American and Latinx cultures.

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Beyond Bracero, Narcos and Latin Lovers: Latin American and Latinx Film

This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through film.

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Unwritten Textualities: Indigenous Literatures and Beyond

This course will introduce students to various forms of Indigenous textualities and the connections between them.

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Abya Yalan Literatures: Indigenous Knowledges and the Written Word

This course examines contemporary Indigenous literatures of Abya Yala (or Latin America) and its relationship to Indigenous autonomy.

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The Acquisition of Spanish

Examination of the acquisition of Spanish in multilingual learning contexts (by second language learners, heritage bilinguals, and L3 learners). We focus on the acquisition of phonetics/phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, lexicon, and pragmatics, with particular emphasis on the role of context of acquisition (naturalistic, classroom, and study abroad).

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The Politics of Melodrama in Latin American and Latinx Cultures

This course explores the social and political history of melodrama in Latin American and Latinx cultures.

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Race and Nation in Argentine Popular Culture

This course explores Argentine popular culture by focusing on the interplay between race and nation.

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Desired and Policed: Paradigms of Spanish Womanhood

This course examines ideologies of Spanish womanhood in Spanish culture (literature, essay, visual art) produced between 1800-1936.

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Print and Power in 19th-Century Latin America

This course examines the long nineteenth century in Latin America (1790–1910), focusing on the interplay between literature and politics.

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Travel Writing in Colonial Latin America

This course explores different forms of travel writing from 1492 until 1820 to understand mobility as a complex gendered and racialized experience.

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Unwritten Textualities: Indigenous Literatures and Beyond

This course will introduce students to various forms of Indigenous textualities and the connections between them.

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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code-Switching

This course explores code-switching as a multifaceted linguistic and cultural practice.

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Pleasure and Fun, In Spite of It All (Spain, 1898-1960)

This class examines how various sorts of pleasure and fun were represented and policed and how pleasure was created through literature, art, and film during an angst-ridden period.

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Mapping the Borderlands: Border Culture & Migration in the U.S. & the Americas

This course focuses on how Mexican and Central American communities envision, experience, and coexist in el Norte, the American Southwest, and along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Estéticas de la Migración: Migrant Fictions and Border Culture throughout the Americas

This course explores how art and culture represent migration and borders throughout the Americas.

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Desired and Policed: Paradigms of Spanish Womanhood

This course considers Spain’s literary representations of womanhood and femininity from the 18th C to the present.

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Tourism, Modernization, Environment, & Difference: Imagining Spain & Other in Spanish Cultural Production

This course considers changing notions of travel and its association with processes of modernization, mass consumption, nation building, and climate change in Spain from the 19th C to the present.

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Mexican National Cinema

This course explores how Mexican cinema (19th-21stC) has commented on and participated in major social and national processes such as the Mexican Revolution, the (re)construction of national identity, modernization, as well as the negotiation of changing conceptions of class, gender, and race.

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Realisms in Latin American Cinema

This course will study the various forms of filmic realism that have influenced and surfaced within Latin American cinema including Soviet realism, Italian neorealism, cinema verité, among others.

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Strange Worlds

This course studies Spain's literature (18th C - present) that portray seemingly otherworldly, fantastic, and speculative experiences.

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Against the Grain: A Fantastic Imagination in Spanish Literature and Visual Culture

This course considers the fantastic, grotesque, erotic, and diseased representations of spaces, the natural world, human bodies, cultural beliefs, and the human imagination in Spain's literature and visual culture of the 18th-19th C.

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Encuentros y Desencuentros: Latin America and Spain, 1898-2025

What have been the political and cultural relations between Spain and Latin America in recent years? From a transatlantic perspective, we will explore key issues in Hispanic culture today through the study of literature, film, art, and music.

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Global Spain: Between America, Europe, and the Mediterranean

In this course, we will explore the construction of the image of Spain for foreign consumption from the turn of the twentieth century to the present.

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Religious Conflict in the Making of Spain, 1500-1700

This course analyzes the creation of memory of religious conflicts in the Spanish Empire through literature of entertainment and their interaction with other political and commercial conflicts during the Early Modern period.