Raquel Goebel awarded the “Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership Grant”

Raquel Goebel is the recipient of the “Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership Grant”, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The award is part of  a cross-university initiative within the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Raquel will collaborate with colleagues from...

Brazil in America

How is Brazil intertwined with and seemingly distinct from an American hemisphere? With some attention to class, gender, race and sexuality, this course explores the making of Brazil across the Spanish- and English-speaking Americas.   SPRING 2020 - Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM. Taught in English. Undergraduate Section: U4 - CRN 55708  3 credits Graduate Section: G4 - CRN 37002  4 credits  

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...

Prof. John Karam, recipient of Fulbright Scholarship

Prof. John Karam has been awarded the very competitive and prestigious  Fulbright Scholar award to conduct research in Brazil for the next two summers. As a Fulbright recipient, John will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with international partners in educational, political,...

Brazilian Regionalisms

This course aims to break open the singular idea of “Brazil” to reveal many Brazils, exposing students to the tremendous regional diversity that both enriches and complicates our understanding of the Federative Republic. Brazilian Regionalisms Brazil is a country of continental proportions—larger than the lower 48 States and only slightly smaller than China. Its various climates range from some of the driest lands on earth to the lush Amazon rainforest. This richness is matched or surpassed by its human geography, with its many native populations and the millions of newcomers—European...

20th Century Brazilian Social Thought

This course will familiarize students with the broad trends and debates in Brazilian social and historical thought during the long 20th century. Course taught in English We will pay particular attention to the notions of race, ethnicity, and nation, focusing on seminal texts by some Brazil’s most important thinkers.  We will also engage with Brazilian cultural production (literature, film, music) to compliment and exemplify these intellectual debates.  Students will develop critical and comparative reading and thinking skills, as well as a working knowledge of Brazilian...
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