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Read article: Graduate-student recipients of CLACS 2023 Summer Graduate Research Fellowships present their research at the SGRF Workshop
Graduate-student recipients of CLACS 2023 Summer Graduate Research Fellowships present their research at the SGRF Workshop
On February 9, CLACS held a workshop and reception for recipients of summer 2023 CLACS graduate research fellowships. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese was extremely well-represented, with 5 graduate students participating and presenting on the work they did as a result of the fellowships. A...
Read article: Prof. Silvina Montrul, recipient of the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistics Society of America
Prof. Silvina Montrul, recipient of the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistics Society of America
Prof. Silvina Montrul's book Native Speakers,...
Read article: Please join us to celebrate the retirement of Prof. Elena Delgado!
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...
Read article: Luis David Gaytán-Soto, recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award
Luis David Gaytán-Soto, recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award
Congratulations to  Luis Gaytán Soto, who is one of only two winners campuswide of the 2023 Graduate Student Leadership Award! Luis David Gaytán-Soto, master’s student in Spanish, has demonstrated commitment through a multitude of advising and mentoring programs with an...
Read article: Boundless generosity: a tribute to Dara Goldman
Boundless generosity: a tribute to Dara Goldman
It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the unexpected loss of Dara Goldman, professor of Spanish and director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society. Dara joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the...
Read article: 2022 Celebration of Teaching Excellence
2022 Celebration of Teaching Excellence
Congratulations to our three faculty who were recognized in the 2022 Celebration of Teaching Excellence:   José Ignacio Hualde, Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award Florencia Henshaw, Excellence in Online & Distance Teaching / Chancellor's Academic Professional...

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From the Slave Ship to the Cruise Ship: Violence & Resistance in the Hispanic Caribbean

This course explores how authors and creators at the edge of empire defy and resist neocolonial gestures and interventions. Students will examine an array of literary and cultural productions from the 19th century to the present, with a special focus on contemporary visual cultures.

SPAN 316 - SPRING 2024

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Introduction to Latin American Cinema

This introductory, graduate-level course on Latin American cinema familiarizes students with the three fundamental areas of expertise that shape scholarship in the field: 1) the techniques of filmic analysis; 2) film theory; and 3) the history of film production in the region from the silent period through contemporary cinema.

SPAN 468 - SPRING 2024

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Beginner/Intermediate Basque

Continuation of BASQ401, with an exhaustive initial overview. Basque is an isolate language spoken in the Basque Country of northern Spain, southern France and the Basque diaspora in Western US and elsewhere. It is unrelated to any modern language. The course may be adapted depending on enrolled students’ needs & interests.

BASQ 402 - SPRING 2024

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Beyond Bracero, 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).

SPAN 248 (LLS 248) - SPRING 2024

Diego Rivera's Gloriosa Victoria

"Tan Cerca de los Estados Unidos": U.S. Interventions in Latin America Through Literature & Visual Culture

This course addresses the conflictive relationship between the United States and Latin America through literature and visual culture. In 1891, Cuban writer José Martí published his essay Nuestra América, referring to Latin America as opposed to the United States and Canada.

SPAN 535 - SPRING 2024

Felipe Galindo, 4th of July from the South Border

Mapping the Borderlands: Border Culture & Migration in the U.S. & the Americas

Span 326 Mapping the Borderlands focuses on how border communities imagine, experience, and coexist in el Norte, the American Southwest, and Greater Mexico. For the queer Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa, the U.S.-Mexico border is an open wound: "una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds" (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 25).

SPAN 326 - SPRING 2024