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Alumna Grace Maloney wins prestigious Fulbright Award
Our alumna Grace Maloney, will be heading to Vigo in Galicia, Spain, as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. Grace graduated in May with a triple major in Spanish, MCB and Chemistry. She was a member of the Campus Honors Program and a James Scholar, and experienced a summer studying...
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Prof. Silvina Montrul wins National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) fellowship!
Prof. Silvina Montrul has been awarded the highly competitive National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) fellowship for her project, “Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers.” Silvina...
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Spanish majors and minors recognized with Bronze Tablets by LAS!
LAS has named the recipients of the prestigious Bronze Tablet award and several are our majors and minors! (Please note that other colleges have not yet released the names of their bronze Tablet winners so more of our students may be on those lists)
The following Spanish...
Prof. Mariselle Meléndez named LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar!
Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has just been named LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar by the College of LAS. Named scholars are chosen for their energy, creativity, and record of excellence in teaching and research, as well as for evidence of service and future...
PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos wins Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
Lit/cult PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a highly competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions...
Profs. Melissa Bowles and John Karam promoted to Full Professors!
Following the determination by the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Provost has recommended the promotions of both Melissa Bowles and John Karam to the rank of Full Professor, effective August 16, 2021. As stated in Provost Communication 9,...
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;" This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through exciting films. It focuses on a set of current and relevant topics (migrations, assimilation and integration, ICE, political struggles, globalization, nationalism and transnationalism). No prerequisites. Lectures Online and Section Face to Face.
The class will expose and go beyond stereotypes about Latinx and Latin Americans typically seen on the screen (...
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Prof. Xiomara Cervantes awarded 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty!
Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has been awarded a six-month 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The Fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for ...
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Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the 2021 LEAP Award!
Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the 2021 LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Award. This highly competitive award was created as a way to foster excellence and...
EXTRACTIVISM AND ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE
Why is extractivism the dominant paradigm for development in Latin America? And how can cultural production, from literature to film, help contest its damaging effects and imagine other ways of relating to the nonhuman world?