As the academic year 2019-20 comes to a close, Professor Mariselle Meléndez, Head of Spanish and Portuguese, created a video presentation to honor everyone's efforts (faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate students) and to recognize their (our) accomplishments albeit in a virtual way.
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More Department News
- Two of our PhD students, Ane Icardo Isasa and Teresa Greppi, have been recognized by the Illinois News Bureau for their campus-level teaching awards this year. You can read about them here.
- We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga (Spanish Linguistics) has been awarded the prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (DDRI) for her Disserta
- Our world-class researcher Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a highly prestigious and extremely competitive National Institute of Health
Calendar
SPAN 310 - FALL 2020This course will analyze dramatic texts from seventeenth-century Spain, paying especial attention to issues of racial, gender, and class identity, and how these themes can resonate to contemporary audiences.
SPAN 248 - FALL 2020TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, Gen Ed for “Literature and the Arts” and “US Minority Cultures;" The aim of this course is to study the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through film.
SPAN 528 - FALL 2020According to Jacques Rancière art, like politics, is not by nature consensual, but rather “dissensual.” This is because of art's capacity to create not only identifications that are different from those which are given to us, but also identifications that at on
PORT 150 - FALL 2020This course looks at Brazilians in the U.S. through the interdisciplinary approaches of cultural studies and ethnic studies. Students will learn how Brazilian identity in the U.S.
SPAN 324 SEC A - FALL 2020This course focuses on the profound cultural and symbolic continuities and changes of religious myths and rituals in Latin America from the past to the present.
SPAN 324 SEC B - FALL 2020This course examines the relationship between food, culture and society in colonial Latin America and its impact on our society today including the US.
SPAN 320 SEC X - FALL 2020This course serves as a panoramic introduction to Spanish literatures and cultures from the perspective of the non-heteronormative subject, from 1898 through the present.
SPAN 320 SEC D - FALL 2020In 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.
SPAN 312 - FALL 2020We will analyze some of Basque (Euskera), Galician, Catalan literature masterpieces by paying attention to issues of linguistic deterritorialization, politicization, visibility, and cultural translation.
SPAN 572 - FALL 2020An overview of critical theories for the analysis of literary and cultural texts since the mid-20th century, including Spanish, Latin American, Luso-Brazilian, and U.S. Latinx schools of thought.
SPAN 305 - FALL 2020An in-depth investigation of the structure of Spanish, with a secondary focus on syntactic variation, especially structural differences with English. Introduces concepts and techniques essential for syntactic analysis and description. Taught in Spanish.
SPAN 468 - FALL 2020During the mid- and late-20 century, Latin American novels and short stories became international sensations, enjoying unprecedented commercial and critical success.
SPAN 202 - FALL 2020In this class you will actively use your Spanish every day, learn about being an effective bilingual professional and develop fundamental intercultural skills.
SPAN 232 - FALL 2020In this service-learning course, you will learn with and from local Latinx immigrants as you volunteer two hours each week with a local organization that serves our immigrant community.
SPAN 308 - SPRING 2020Did you know that the United States now has over 50 million Spanish-speakers, making it the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico?
SPAN 464 - SPRING 2020During the period we'll explore in this course, borders of all kinds dissolve, are smashed, and are reconfigured.
SPAN 320 - SPRING 2020In 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.
SPAN 312 - SPRING 2020This course will examine how both emigration and immigration have been portrayed in the Spanish literature and in others cultural manifestations since 1900 to the present.
SPAN 324 - SPRING 2020This course examines how the experiences of African slaves since their arrival with colonizing Spaniards to the Americas in the 16th century, culturally shaped what is known today as Latin America.
SPAN 232 - SPRING 2020In this service-learning course, you will learn with and from local Latinx immigrants as you volunteer two hours each week with a local organization that serves our immigrant community.
SPAN 332 - SPRING 2020Learn the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship, a practice that seeks opportunities at the nexus of languages, cultures and communities.
PORT 404 - SPRING 2020How is Brazil intertwined with and seemingly distinct from an American hemisphere? With some attention to class, gender, race and sexuality, this course explores the making of Brazil across the Spanish- and English-speaking Americas.
SPAN 326 - SPRING 2020This course is an introduction to the classics of Mexican Cinema, from silent film until today.
SPAN 467 - SPRING 2020This course explores why many authors turned to romance in order to rethink categories of race and gender.
SPAN/LLS 246In this course, we will engage with the diverse and unique ways writers and artists perform and tell stories about their Latinidad.
SPAN 535This seminar focuses on the implications, possibilities, and failures of a Latin America “of sex” or rather a Latin America “with a sexuality.”
SPAN 466This course will offer a cultural and critical perspective of the way ecology, natural disasters, and human actions are intrinsically intertwined.
SPAN 468This course will examine the evolution of discourses on nature in Latin American literature and film throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will dig into texts that thematize the environment, and examine how they refer to the conservation and destruction of nature.
SPAN 326In this course, we will study representations of animals in Latin American culture and examine why writers and artists thought with animals to work through human questions of gender, race, and sexuality.
SPAN 324This course examines the relationship between food, culture and society in colonial Spanish America and its impact on our society today.
SPAN 326In this course, we will study the aesthetic representations of sex and sexuality in Latin American literary and artistic work from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
SPAN 590When we become immersed in the stories of others, our own lives change, for better or worse, for a few seconds or for years. How do storytellers use the potential for empathy to affect readers or viewers? What are the ethical implications of these uses?
SPAN 535This course seeks to explore visions of the metropole in Caribbean and U.S.
BASQUE 401Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people spoken in the north of Spain and south of France.
SPAN 465The indignados movement marked a before and an after in the contemporary history of Spain.
SPAN 324What do tangible objects such as textiles, silverwork, maps, books, jewelry, paintings, clothing, furniture, kitchen utensils, and food tell us about the history and culture of Latin America?
PORT 403This course aims to break open the singular idea of “Brazil” to reveal many Brazils, exposing students to the tremendous regional diversity that both enriches and complicates our understanding of the Federative Republic.
PORT 404This course will familiarize students with the broad trends and debates in Brazilian social and historical thought during the long 20th century. Course taught in English
SPAN 326 GAs one of the most divisive issues of our time, immigration has quickly become a major topic of focus in literature, film, and journalism. This course will examine Latin American immigration and emigration as social, political, and cultural phenomena.
SPAN 326 FThis course will critically consider the construction of a new Latin American international cinema from a Cultural Studies approach, investigating how it fulfills or disrupts desires for a borderless world, how it represents local and global conflict, whether it successfully “translates” the cult
SPAN 590The course will explore the politics, emotions and aesthetics of change in the context of modern and contemporary Spanish culture.
SPAN 468Buenos Aires. Mexico City. Bogotá. Rio de Janeiro. The Virtual City. How does one “read” the contemporary urban metropolis of Latin America, whether real or imagined?
