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Why Study Spanish?
Take a walk with professor Anna Torres-Cacoullos to learn why studying Spanish is important today
Welcoming our new faculty
Yamile Ferreira: I’m in my first year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and I’m thrilled to be here! I teach classes on Latin American social movements, women writers and educators, travel literature, print culture, and nation-building. My research examines Latin American women of letters in the history of education, focusing on their intellectual networks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their key role in expanding female education as a pathway into the public sphere. Learn more
Rodrigo Viqueira: I am a scholar of modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on the cultural production of the Southern Cone and Brazil. My primary research interests include sound studies, media theory, Latin American cultural theory, and Afro-Latin American studies. My current project examines the political life of sound and listening across literature, cinema, and radio in twentieth-century Argentina and Brazil. Learn more
Angelica Waner: I joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese this year after being a postdoc in American Indian Studies last year. I’m looking forward to getting to know the students and broader community here. My research, situated between Latin American Studies and Indigenous Studies, explores the role of literature for Indigenous autonomy and futurities. I was a first-generation student and am more than happy to talk to students about navigating the university. Learn more
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Committement to Graduate Professional Development
The award recognizes faculty mentors who show sustained excellence in graduate student mentoring; innovative approaches to graduate advising; demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and positive impact on graduate student scholarship and professional development. There are just two of these awards made at the campus level each year. Congratulations, Mariselle!
Rethinking Mexico: Cultural Representations of Mexico in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
This course explores how Mexican literature and culture have been conceived, experienced, and represented during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Tourism, Modernization, and Environment: Imagining Spain in Contemporary Cultural Production
This course explores the intersections of tourism, modernization, and the environment in contemporary Spain through the analysis of diverse forms of cultural production from 1880 to 2025.
Strange Worlds
This course explores “strange worlds” through fiction from Spain featuring otherworldly, speculative experiences—from encounters with robots and ghosts to madness, war, and post-apocalyptic survival.
Approaches to Culture
This course focuses on the rich and diverse cultural expressions found throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
Applied Sociolinguistics
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar explores the connections between linguistic variation, language perception, and applied settings, such as healthcare, law, business, risk communication, and more.
Women Travelers to/from Latin America
This course explores different forms of travel writing written by women from 1820 to the present time to understand mobility as a complex, gendered, and racialized experience.
Feminisms in the Americas
This course examines questions of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary Latina/Latino culture through a discussion of novels, performance pieces, essays, and films.