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Prof. Alejandro Ramirez Mendez, recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-25
Prof. Alejandro Ramirez Mendez is a recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-2025 for his project, Calles migrantes: Transnational Cartographies and Global Cities in the Literary Imagination of the Americas.
Prof. Rodrigo Delgado, recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-25
Prof. Rodrigo Delgado is a recipient of Humanities Release Time for AY 2024-2025 for his project, "Navigating the Linguistic Landscape: Language Mixing and Latinx Identity in the Digital Age."
Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert, recipient of LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants
Lucía Sánchez-Gilbert is a recipient of the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants. She is one of just six recipients College-wide for this award.
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José Figueroa, recipient of Mellon Interseminars Fellowship
Jose Figueroa was selected as a recipient of 2024-2025 Humanities Research Institute Interseminars Fellowship. He is one of eight other graduate students from the College of Fine and Applied Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Interseminars represents the latest thinking on...
Lázaro García Angulo, recipient of HRI Graduate Student Fellowship
Lázaro García Angulo was selected as a recipient 2024-2025 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Fellowship for his dissertation project, tentatively titled "“Otra mujer-hombre”: Representations of Gender Nonconformity in Spain, 1880-1940."
Luis Gaytán & Eunyoung Yang, recipients of travel grants
Luis Gaytán has received a Graduate College MA Travel Grant for his MA research project.
Eunyoung Yang has received a Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant for her dissertation.
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Please join us to celebrate the retirement of Prof. Elena Delgado!
On the occasion of her retirement, we will come together to celebrate Prof. Elena Delgado’s 34-year career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Current and former students, colleagues, and friends will have the opportunity to share tributes during the ceremony and/or in written form...
FROM THE SLAVE SHIP TO THE CRUISE SHIP: VIOLENCE & RESISTANCE IN THE HISPANIC CARIBBEAN
This course explores how authors and creators at the edge of empire defy and resist neocolonial gestures and interventions. Students will examine an array of literary and cultural productions from the 19th century to the present, with a special focus on contemporary visual cultures. The aim is to identify the various forms in which coloniality has and is still woven into the social and political fabric of the Caribbean, understanding how this intersects with broader hemispheric issues of race, sexuality, migration, and the environment. Instruction in Spanish
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INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
This introductory, graduate-level course on Latin American cinema familiarizes students with the three fundamental areas of expertise that shape scholarship in the field: 1) the techniques of filmic analysis; 2) film theory; and 3) the history of film production in the region from the silent period through contemporary cinema. This overview will both consider Latin America’s filmic production as a triangulated phenomenon with respect to production in the US and Europe, as well as interrogate its national and regional implications. Students will produce 2 written papers, article summaries, and...