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Prof. Carolyn Fornoff receives a Research Board Book Subvention Grant

Prof. Fornoff has received a competitive Research Board Book Subvention grant for her co-edited book, Timescales: Ecological Temporalities Across Disciplines which will be forthcoming with the prestigious University of Minnesota Press.

Mexican Cinema

This course is an introduction to the classics of Mexican Cinema, from silent film until today. We will examine genres like melodrama, horror, comedy, and the comedia ranchera, in order to think about the way in which film has crystalized ideas about Mexican identity. We will study Mexican stars ranging from Cantinflas to El Santo. (Undergrads are welcome to take SPAN 326 twice, as long as the topics are different.) SPRING 2020.  CRN: 49961

Romance and Race in 19th Century Latin America

This course explores why many authors turned to romance in order to rethink categories of race and gender. We will delve into stories of forbidden love that feature slaves, bandits, lepers, and prostitutes in order to consider how Latin American identity was rewritten in the nineteenth century. Advanced undergrads are welcome to join this class! SPRING 2020. CRN: 52372 / 52373

Alumna Chinyere Osuji (BA in Spanish and Sociology 2001) publishes new book

Prof. Osuji, a former major in Spanish and Portuguese who graduated in 2001 and went on to Harvard (MA) and UCLA (PhD), just published Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race with NYU Press. The book compares the experiences of black-white couples...

Spanish student Phoebe Lauer among Illinois Fullbright recipients

Phoebe Lauer, of Chicago, and a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, was offered an English Teaching Assistant Fulbright in the Canary Islands, Spain, where she will assist English teachers in early childhood and elementary school classrooms. As an undergraduate, Lauer studied abroad in Barcelona...

Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez awarded Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship

Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez has been awarded the Criticism & Interpretive Theory Junior Research Fellowship for the years 2019-21 given by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. This fellowship support is for her current book in progress, A Body Exposed: The...

Prof. Joyce Tolliver recipient of Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award

Prof. Joyce Tolliver has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award. The Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award recognizes “a faculty member who has provided extraordinary leadership contributions across many dimensions of shared governance (e.g., committee work, chair...

From Deviants to Divas: Performance and Storytelling in Latinx Popular Culture

In this course, we will engage with the diverse and unique ways writers and artists perform and tell stories about their Latinidad. With special attention to deviance and divadom, the course materials underscore how Latinx women and LGBTQ persons push the limits of gender and sexuality in our contemporary popular culture. Through narrative, film, music, and performance art, we will ask questions about feminism, race, queerness, family, identity formation, community, and language. Guiding our readings is an inquiry into how writers and artists defy expectations defy expectations of who and...

The Politics of Pleasure: Latin America Queered, Exposed, Affected

This seminar focuses on the implications, possibilities, and failures of a Latin America “of sex” or rather a Latin America “with a sexuality.”   In The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Michel Foucault posits, “We...are in a society of ‘sex,’ or rather a society ‘with a sexuality’: the mechanisms of power are addressed to the body, to life, to what causes it to proliferate, to what reinforces the species, its stamina, its ability to dominate, or its capacity for being used” (147). Foucault’s reading of sexuality’s evolving historical position in modern societies describes how sex and...

Pilar Martínez-Quiroga awarded Outstanding Article prize by the Journal Hispania

The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese AATSP’s flagship research journal Hispania has selected Pilar Martínez-Quiroga’s article, “La detective Bruna Husky de Rosa Montero: Feminismo, distopía y conciencia cyborg” (Hispania 101.2, 2018, pp....
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