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...
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...
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...
Established in 1994 as the Barcelona Program Scholarship fund, this award was renamed in 1999 for Professor Pasquariello who established our department's B
Established in 1994 as the Barcelona Program Scholarship fund, this award was renamed in 1999 for Professor Pasquariello who established our department's B
This fellowship was established by an alumna of our department who earned her PhD in Spanish (SLATE) and specialized in second language reading research.
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...
Assistant Director of Introductory Spanish Michelle Dutton was awarded 2024 SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty, for her project, “Why do Midwestern university students study Spanish?: A qualitative study...
