Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Languages, Cultures & Communities

Learn the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship and identify opportunities for positive change. We will focus on the question of how to create linguistically and culturally-appropriate programming within nonprofits. You will volunteer/work on projects for a local nonprofit, using your Spanish to learn from and serve our local Latino community. Come to class prepared to speak Spanish and to connect the headlines with our immigrant community’s realities.   M/W 11:00 – 11:50; Location pending CRN 47945 Prerequisite: SPAN 228 or permission of the professor Taught in Spanish ...

Africa in Colonial Latin America: Bodies, Experiences, and Colonial Negotiations

This course examines the dynamics of identity construction by and about black subjects in colonial Spanish America and its intrinsic relations to issues of race, gender, sexuality, spatiality, food and ecology. We will explore the racial politics of Church and State and the evolution of racial ideologies as seen through legal documents, chronicles, piracy accounts, religious literature, poetry, newspapers, and visual documents. The course focuses on how black bodies were categorized and constructed within specific political and cultural contexts by colonial authorities and other intellectual...

Alumni Ander Beristain, recipient of Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology

Our alumni graduate student (Ph.D, 2022) and now Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Saint Louis University, Prof. Ander Beristain has been awarded the Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology. First established in 2021, the Morris Halle Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology was designed to award outstanding scholarship in phonology by an early career faculty member in linguistics. The Halle Award and Fromkin Prize Committee unanimously...

Current graduate students and alumnus receive national awards from the Linguistics Society of America

Congratulations to graduate student Sara Castró Cantú, who has been awarded the Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award, which is a travel award intended to enable graduate students pursuing topics in sociolinguistics to attend the...

Prof. Mariselle Meléndez featured in LAS and campus-wide news

Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has been featured in a number of venues across campus, including an LAS story showcasing faculty in Humanities  (https://las.illinois...

Brady Hughes staff spotlight in LAS Dean's newsletter

Senior Academic Advisor, Brady Hughes, was featured in the most recent LAS Dean's newsletter in a staff spotlight piece that showcases not only his work with Spanish majors and minors but also his recent MA in musicology and his...
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