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Teresa Greppi and Ane Icardo Isasa recognized for their teaching in Illinois News Bureau
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.
Great job Ane and Teresa!
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PhD student Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga (Spanish Linguistics) awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award
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 Dissertation Research: “Subject Expression in Spanish...
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Virtual Campus Tours for Prospective Students
These YouTube Videos will give you a sense for the University of Illinois and the Champaign-Urbana micro-urban region.
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Our Virtual Spanish and Portuguese Annual Awards Ceremony
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...
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Professor Silvina Montrul Awarded National Institute of Health NICHD Grant!!!!
Our world-class researcher Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a highly prestigious and extremely competitive National Institute of Health, NICHD (National Institute of Child...
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Graduate Student Mónica Lugo Accepts Position at Eastern Illinois
Our graduate student in Literatures and Cultures Mónica Lugo (PhD Spanish) has accepted a position as Spanish Instructor at Eastern Illinois University, starting this August 2020.
Congratulations Mónica!!!! We are very proud of you!
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Prof. Javier Irigoyen-García to be promoted to Full Professor effective August 16!
Wonderful news for Spanish and Portuguese: Provost Andreas Cangellaris has recommended to Chancellor Robert Jones the promotion of Professor Irigoyen to Full Professor effective August 16, 2020.
¡¡¡Enhorabuena, Javier!!! Well deserved!
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Prof. Eduardo Ledesma awarded a Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Fellowship
Professor Eduardo Ledesma has been awarded a Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Fellowship for the years 2020-22, for his project, Blind Cinema: Visually Impaired Filmmakers and the Somatic Sensorium. This is a competitive...
SPANISH THEATER IN PERFORMACE
This 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. Beyond reading and interpreting dramatic texts, the emphasis of the course will be on performance. Students will have the choice of either working on literary analysis or exploring how to adapt and perform old texts in creative ways.
Instructor: Javier Irigoyen-García
MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am (Altgeld Hall 147), Fall 2020
CRN 55517
BEYOND BRACEROS, NARCOS AND LATIN LOVERS: LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINX FILM
TAUGHT 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. It does so by focusing on a broad set of sociohistorical processes (migrations, assimilation and integration, ICE, political struggles, globalization, nationalism and transnationalism).
The class will seek to expose and go beyond stereotypes about Latinx and Latin Americans typically seen on the screen (narcotraffickers, gangsters, undocumented migrants and Latin lovers) while...