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LAS INSIDER features current and past Spanish and Portuguese students!
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...
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Alumni News: Heather Ana Hathaway Miranda named Director of the LAS Alumni Board Association
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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Ander Beristain Murillo and Maria Arruti Iparraguirre awarded Timothy J. Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship
Ander Beristain Murillo (PhD Spanish Linguistics) and Maria Arruti Iparraguirre (PhD Spanish Lit-Cult), have been awarded the Department's Timothy J Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship. This new fellowship comes from a generous donation from Elizabeth Rogers to support graduate...
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Lorena Fabiana Alarcón and Flávia Batista da Silva awarded Tinker Grants from CLACS!
Two of our graduate students have received competitive Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to conduct research in Latin America:
Lorena Fabiana Alarcón for her project Identity and Language...
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Prof. Eduardo Ledesma receives Honorable Mention for IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities
Associate Professor Eduardo Ledesma received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for faculty research.
The Honorable Mention was awarded for his article, “Staging the Spanish Civil War: History and Re-enactment in...
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Prof. Vincent Cervantes to debut new performance, "Hay muertos que no hacen ruido"
Professor Cervantes, under his artistic name Vicente de Cervantes, will be debuting his new performance titled Hay muertos que no hacen ruido on April 16th at 8pm CST. Due to the our current isolated situations, Prof. Cervantes will be debuting...
John Karam appointed Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Associate Professor John Karam has been appointed Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies for a five-year term beginning August 16, 2020 and continuing until August 15, 2025. He will still be teaching in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as he directs the Center (...
Graduate Students Flávia Batista da Silva and Carmen Gallegos awarded Lemann Graduate Fellowships for AY 2020-21
Two of our outstading graduate students Flávia Batista da Silva (MA Portuguese) and Carmen Gallegos (PhD Spanish) have been awarded prestigious Lemann Graduate Fellowships for AY 2020-21 for their research related to Brazil. Parabéns Flávia e Carmen!
WRITING BRAZILIANS INTO THE U.S.
This course looks at Brazilians in the U.S. through the interdisciplinary approaches of cultural studies and ethnic studies. Students will learn how Brazilian identity in the U.S. is not uniform or static, but rather historically contingent, plural, and contested, and how migrants and their descendants shape "minority" as well as "majority" categories in the U.S.. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for Social Sciences as well as U.S. Minority Cultural Studies.
THEORY & LIT CRIT: CONVERSATIONS WITH HISPANISM BETWEEN COLONIALISM & POSTCOLONIALISM
An overview of critical theories for the analysis of literary and cultural texts since the mid-20th century, including Spanish, Latin American, Luso-Brazilian, and U.S. Latinx schools of thought.
On one level, this seminar functions as a presentational overview of major critical theories and schools of thought for the analysis of literary and cultural texts since the mid-20th century. Yet, on another level, the goal of this seminar is to bring these theoretical texts into conversation with Spanish, Latin American, Luso-Brazilian, and U.S. Latinx critical theories. That is, this seminar seeks...