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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...
Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Organization (SPGO)
The purpose of this organization is to represent, unify, and meet the needs of the graduate students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at UIUC. SPGO is governed by a committee of
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. Lecture (AL1) is Online and Sections Face to Face (in person).
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Luis David Gaytán-Soto, recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award
Congratulations to Luis Gaytán Soto, awarded the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award.
Silvina Montrul named as recipient of a Marjorie Roberts Professorship
Prof. Silvina Montrul has been named a recipient of a Marjorie Roberts Professorship in Liberal Arts & Sciences. These prestigious named professorships are granted based on an outstanding record of scholarship.
REVOLUTIONS & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH LAT AM AND IBERIAN DOC FILM
This course explores Latin American and Spanish documentary film in relation to revolutionary and social movements from the 1930s until today. Documentary is seen as a genre that has an “immediate” relationship with reality and history. The course challenges such definitions of what constitutes a documentary and what measure of fiction the genre carries within itself, to show that documentary films do not simply represent reality, but also mediate and actively construct it. Special focus is placed on understanding the role of the Latin American and Spanish documentary as a tool for social...
GETTING REEL: FICTION CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA
When Mexican director Guillermo del Toro won the Academy Award for best picture, director and animated feature for Pinocchio (2023), it came as no surprise given the explosive trajectory and growing visibility of contemporary Latin American filmmakers. This exciting course explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America and Spain since 2,000. In fact, the cinema of Latin America and Spain has become increasingly globalized, and all of the films we study have achieved important commercial and critical success internationally; this begs the question, why...
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 (...
PhD Student Caio Albernaz Siqueira Awarded Tinker Field Research Collaborative Fellowship
Caio Albernaz Siqueira, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics, is awarded the 2022 Tinker Field Research Collaborative Fellowship by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, to conduct field research in South America toward his project entitled “The Realization of Occlusives in the...