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Prof. Eduardo Ledesma awarded a Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Fellowship

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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...

Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga recipient of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Darlene Wolf Fellowship.

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The Darlene Wolf Fellowship was established by an alumna of our department, Darlene Wolf, who earned her PhD in Spanish (SLATE) and specialized in second language reading research. This fellowship recognizes outstanding teaching and academic achievement by doctoral students in the...

Prof. Javier Irigoyen featured in LAS News for his contributions to research

LAS  news has announced our own Javier Irigoyen-García as one of the College of LAS named scholars for his outstanding contribution in the area of research. Javier is one of the three faculty members chosen this year for the inaugural 2020-2021 Dean’s Distinguished Professorial...

Alumni News

Graduate Student Successes in Job Market 2019-20

Despite a tough market and COVID-19, so far three of our graduate students have received TT Assistant Professor positions from prestigious universities, please congratulate them when you see them! Juan Suárez Ontaneda. Assistant Professor. Department of Classics and Foreign Languages. Xavier...

Prof. Eduardo Ledesma Advocates for the Humanities in U.S. Congress with Illinois Delegation from IPRH

Profs. Jon Ebel, Eduardo Ledesma, Craig Koflosky, Renée Trilling, and undergraduate student Issy Marquez at the U.S. Capitol.
In early March, Professor Eduardo Ledesma and a delegation from the University of Illinois affiliated with the IPRH's Public Humanities Steering Committee were on Capitol Hill to advocate for critical humanities funding (NEH, Title VI, National Archives), to be included in the next...

LAS INSIDER features current and past Spanish and Portuguese students!

Spanish alumna Abby Knipp doing scuba in Caribbean
Despite the challenging times we are currently confronting, there are still some wonderful news to share about our alumni and undergraduate students and their achievements. LAS Insider, an online blog for...

Alumni News: Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda named Director of the LAS Alumni Board Association

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Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda, a 1995 Spanish alumna, has been selected as Director of the LAS Alumni Board Association. The Association was founded in 1984 as a member-supported organization who works as ambassadors for the College of LAS. The Association also...
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